February 23, 2006---GE Energy was awarded a $9.2 million contract by Mondi Business Paper South Africa to provide an LM2500+ aeroderivative gas turbine generating set for its facility in Richards Bay, South Africa. This represents the first natural gas-fired industrial cogeneration project in South Africa.
The LM2500+ gas turbine generating set is configured with a six-stage, low-speed power turbine and a dry low emissions combustor. It will be supplied with chilling coils in the gas turbine inlet system.
"This order with Mondi represents a breakthrough for GE Energy. It is the first time we have supplied power generation equipment to South Africa," said Rick Stewart, president of GE Energy's aeroderivative division. "Our experience and proven technology will help Mondi run its plant more efficiently."
At site conditions, the gas turbine is rated at 27.8 MWe, increasing to 30.4 MWe when the chilling coils are in operation. The equipment is being used in a cogeneration application where the gas turbine exhausts into a heat recovery steam generator that will then produce process steam for the Mondi facility.
The gas turbine generating set package will be produced at GE Energy's aeroderivative division's facility in Jacintoport, Texas. The gas turbine generating set is scheduled to ship in the first quarter of 2006 and the plant is slated for commercial operation in the third quarter of 2006.
Mondi Business Paper, which forms part of the Anglo American plc group of companies, is a leading producer of cut-size paper in Europe. Major production facilities are located in Austria, Hungary, Israel, Slovakia, Russia and South Africa.
For more information, contact:
Dennis Murphy
GE Energy
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Gina DeRossi or Howard Masto
Masto Public Relations
+1 518 786 6488
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Katherina Koller