Siemens signs first long-term service agreement for H-class turbine in UAE

• 5 years ago (2019-04-03)
• David Flin

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Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA), the world’s largest “premium aluminium” producer, along with Siemens, have announced the first power services agreement for an H-class gas turbine in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Siemens will provide maintenance and repairs for 20 years, as well as onsite personnel support for the gas turbine and its generator at the planned 600 MW combined cycle project feeding EGA’s Jebel Ali power plant in Dubai.

Gianluigi Di Giovanni, Senior Executive Vice President of Siemens Power Generation Services in the Middle East and North Africa, said: “This services deal supports the first use of Siemens’ H-class turbine technology in the UAE, and the first use in an aluminium facility globally. We have been successfully supporting industrial customers for many years, and we fully understand the vital role that reliable energy plays in enabling a company such as EGA to reach its business goals.”

As part of the agreement, Siemens will offer its Power Diagnostic Services, part of the company’s Omnivise digital services portfolio, designed to remotely monitor and detect abnormal operating conditions of equipment. It helps power plant operators react quickly and proactively to avoid unscheduled downtime and production losses. Siemens monitoring experts can, the company claims, remotely solve over 85 per cent of all alarms without a service team doing troubleshooting onsite.

The new power block is set to boost the efficiency of power production at EGA’s Jebel Ali smelter, lowering emissions and reducing the consumption of natural gas. The H-class power plant is expected to lower greenhouse gas emissions at Jebel Ali by around 10 per cent, with NOx emissions being reduced by 58 per cent.