Suleimaniah Gas Power Station (SGPS) The geographical location: The plant is located in the town of Chamchamal, which is to the northwest of Suleimanya city in around 60 km. The Ministry of Electricity (MoE) of the Kurdistan Region contracted MGH in the beginning of 2008 to construct a Power Plant in Suleimanya to produce 750 MWs of electricity power on a Build, Own and Operate (BOO) basis, then the plant was extended to 1000 MWs. MGH accordingly purchased Frame-9E Type Gas Turbine Units with their generators and auxiliaries from General Electric (GE), taking future expansions of both combined and simple cycle into consideration since the initial blue prints of the site plant. The first, simple cycle, stage of SGPS included installing and commissioning four Frame-9E units with a total of 500 MWs capacity which started production in February 2010. Later, MGH contracted with GE and ABB Germany to add another four units of the same type to double the production capacity. The last unit started production in August 2012. Which made the plant’s capacity reach 1000 MWs. As the Third Phase of the project, MGH started converting SGPS into a combined cycle with a 500 MWs capacity. The project utilizes the gas turbine exhaust heat emissions to produce steam in Heat Recovery Steam Generators (HRSG), which then generates electricity in two steam turbines. This process increases the production without using extra fuel. It also reduces the amount of CO2 emissions and frees the environment of combustion emotions. After the completion of the combined cycle, the plant capacity is raised to 1500 MWs. The main parts of the Combined Cycle are: The Steam Turbines of C7 Frame by GE USA. The HRSGs by CMI Belgium. Air Cooled Condenser by GEA Germany The main and sub transformers by ALSTOM France. Main Control System by Emerson USA. Switchyard 400 KV substation by ABB Sweden. It is worth noting that the Suleimanya power plant is designed to run on two types of fuel, mainly natural gas, and diesel fuel as standby. As it is in EGPS, the Natural Gas is reaching the station via pipelines from Khor Mor gas field station, while the diesel is transported to the plant via mobile trucks. Then the diesel is purified and treated before it can be used for the turbines. A 132 KV substation associated with the Simple Cycle and a 400 KV substation with the Combined Cycle were both delivered by ABB Sweden and the energy is exported by fourteen high voltage lines to the national grid of Kurdistan region.

• published: 22 Dec 2015
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