Mitsubishi to supply turbines for Hyundai power project

Power plant will be Saudi Arabia’s first with supercritical pressure steam turbines.

Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. will manufacture four sets of a 700 megawatt class supercritical pressure steam turbine and generator, plus supercritical boiler components, to be installed at a large-scale, heavy oil-fired power generation plant that will be built by state-owned Saudi Electricity Company.

MHI received the order from Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., Ltd., the engineering, procurement and construction contractor of the power plant. Mitsubishi is to complete deliveries of the products between September 2014 and March 2015.

The 2,800 MW class power plant, which is to be first heavy oil-fired supercritical power generation plant in Saudi Arabia, will be built at a site south of Jeddah.
Saudi Electricity is the only Saudi Arabian company to integrally handle power generation, transmission and distribution.

Supercritical pressure heavy oil-fired power generation provides higher generation efficiency than subcritical pressure generation and is capable of reducing heavy oil consumption relative to power output, which results in lower carbon dioxide emissions.