Swedish engineering firm Alfa Laval has received an order to the value of approximately 65 million Swedish krona ($8.8 million) from the Saudi National Contracting Co. (NCC). The equipment purchased is intended for the Saudi Electricity Company’s PP3 Power Plant expansion project in Jeddah.
The expansion is scheduled to start in the beginning of 2004, with the first unit projected to come on-line in February 2005.Once complete, the PP3 expansion project will meet the growing demand for power required by the citizens of Jeddah, a city with more than three million inhabitants.
The upgrade will bring 480 mega watts of additional capacity to the PP3 site through eight General Electric combustion turbines, resulting in a total site capacity of 1700 mega watts.
Alfa Laval will supply the Crude Oil Treatment Plant including a crude oil preheating and recovery system, a crude oil purification system with 20 centrifugal separators and an effluent water treatment plant using one separator and fuel forwarding equipment for each turbine.
The order also includes comprehensive services to be provided at site, including supervision of installation, testing and commissioning, trial run and on-site training.
Alfa Laval previously supplied a fuel oil treatment system to the PP3 plant in 1994. In total, Alfa Laval has over 150 separators installed in Saudi Arabian power plants. — (menareport.com)
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