China relies on Hi-tech made by AERZEN
AERZEN blowers for Taishan nuclear power plant
AERZEN supplies a total of nine water vapour blowers for the “Taishan Phase I” nuclear power plant in the Chinese Province of Guangdong - one of the biggest individual orders in the company’s history.
Taishan Nuclear Power Joint Venture Co., Ltd., a Joint Venture of China Guangdong Nuclear Power Hold-
ing Corporation (CGNPC) and Électricité de France (EDF), is responsible for the financing, construction and operation of the nuclear power plant. Construction started in 2009 and commissioning is scheduled for 2015 - a comparably short realisation period for this segment, something which the customer’s project management team proudly refers to.
The two power plant blocks, each with a nominal capacity of 1,750 megawatts, are based on the latest generation of the European pressurised water reactor (Areva EPR). The turbines for power generation are supplied by Alstom and Dongfang.
The costs for the entire project amount to about eight billion Euros.
In a project of such magnitude, AER- ZEN’s delivery share, amounting to eight million Euros, may seem comparatively “moderate”. “But this order is a visiting card of the performance of our company”, emphasizes Rainer Lübbecke, head of Process Gas Division. “The extremely high quality standards, and also the documentation required for such a project, illustrate the wide range of AERZEN products.” For example, during the processing phase, about 13,500 documents were prepared, checked and finally released by the customer and the German TÜV.
AERZEN received the order and conse-quently the “starting signal” in August
2010. Five of the nine water vapour blowers type GRa 18.f16x for nuclear power plant block 1 were already dispatched in June. The remaining packaged units will be completed and supplied in the fourth quarter of this year.