Siemens to deliver steam turbine to Az Zour South 3 open cycle Power plant

Siemens announced that it will deliver an industrial steam turbine package to expand the Az Zour South 3 open cycle gas turbine power plant to a combined cycle power plant located in Kuwait, operated by the Ministry of Electricity & Water (MEW). The expansion will result in increase of total installed capacity of the plant by 263 MW without using any additional gas. The combined cycle power plant is expected to go into operation in mid-2019. Siemens customer is the Chinese EPC contractor SEPCOIII.

Az Zour South 3 began operating as an open cycle power plant with two SGT5-4000F gas turbines in 2015. Siemens is now supplying an SST-800 steam turbine (high pressure) combined with an SST-500 steam turbine (low pressure) and an SGen1200A generator for this stage. After the steam turbine expansion the hot waste gases of the gas turbines will be used to produce steam which will feed the turbo set. The company supplied a total of eight SGT5-2000E gas turbines and two SST5-4000 steam turbines for this project.

Image: SST-800 steam turbine (Source: Siemens)