MHPS J-series gas turbine fleet achieves one million commercial operating hours

• 4 years ago (2020-05-04)
• David Flin

Gas 396

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Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems ’ (MHPS) J-Series gas turbine installed fleet has achieved one million hours of commercial operation. The gas turbine series – the company’s largest and most advance – has as industry-leading overall reliability of 99.3 per cent. The air-cooled JAC model delivers 99.5 per cent reliability and efficiency greater than 64 per cent.

Forty-three J-Series gas turbines are in commercial operation, and total ordered capacity exceeds 25GW globally. One hundred units have been technically selected in Brazil, Canada, Japan, Mexico, Peru, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, and the United States.

Akimasa Muyama, Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of MHPS, said: “As we reflect on the important milestone of achieving one million operating hours with our J-Series gas turbine, we know that the most important part of that accomplishment is that we ran for all those hours with 99.3 per cent reliability. Our outstanding reliability is not by good luck. It is because we test the durability and reliability of every new technological advancement for 8000 hours before shipping it to our customers.”

Recent innovations to the J-Series target further reductions in carbon emissions, including development of using increasing levels of hydrogen fuel.