Tokyo, December 22, 2009 

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Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. announced today that Kawasaki Gas Turbine Europe GmbH (KGE), Kawasaki’s Frankfurt-based gas turbine sales and service subsidiary for Europe, has received an order for a 7MW-class GPB80D gas turbine power generation system. This order comes from Sedamyl, an Italian food processing company located in suburban Turin. The system is slated for delivery in May 2010.

Sedamyl plans to overhaul its current cogeneration system by replacing the existing gas turbine generation system with Kawasaki’s GPB80D gas turbine power generation system. Electricity generated by the system will be supplied mainly to Sedamyl’s plant facilities while surplus electricity will be supplied to the local power grid. All the steam recovered from the exhaust will be supplied to the company plant and used in food processing operations.

Kawasaki will manufacture the GPB80D gas turbine power generation system’s core engine, the M7A-03D gas turbine, while KGE will work with a local packaging company to fully assemble the system using locally procured components prior to delivery to Sedamyl’s operating site in Italy. KGE is also responsible for installation, test runs and verification testing following delivery in addition to having a long-term maintenance contract with Sedamyl.

This latest order marks the fourth GPB80D gas turbine power generation system to be delivered to the European market and the first to Italy. The

GPB80D is equipped with an M7A-03D gas turbine, the latest addition to Kawasaki’s M7A line of gas turbines. Development of the GPB80D gas turbine power generation system driven by Kawasaki’s new M7A-03D gas turbine was based on the GPB60D and GPB70D gas turbines that have both earned outstanding reputations in the market. The GPB80D has outperformed the GPB70D with 10% more output and 2.9 more percentage points of thermal efficiency.

The M7A-03D gas turbine to be used for Sedamyl’s cogeneration system will be the first to be equipped with Kawasaki’s newly developed DLE combustion system for lower NOx emissions levels, boasting the world’s lowest guaranteed maximum NOx emissions level of 15 ppm (converted at 15% O2).

Kawasaki’s outstanding technological capability demonstrated by the GPB80D’s excellent overall efficiency and proven track record is gaining attention around the globe. This latest order is a testament to the superior environmental performance and lifecycle cost of Kawasaki gas turbine power generation systems. Kawasaki will step up efforts to expand sales of its gas turbine power generation systems with an eye to increasing its market shares in Italy and Europe via KGE. The ability to leverage a global sales network encompassing Europe, the Americas, Southeast and South Asia, as well as the Middle and Far East is enabling Kawasaki to make major inroads into the global market.

The Kawasaki
GPB180D and GPB80D
Gas Turbine Generator Sets for Energias de Portugal (EDP)

Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. (KHI) has received an order, through its European sales and service affiliate, Kawasaki Gas Turbine Europe GmbH (KGE, suburban of Frankfurt, Germany), of its 18MW class of the GPB180D and its 7 MW class of the GPB80D gas turbine generator sets from Energias de Portugal (EDP), an electric public corporation of Portugal in 2008. Annual sales of EDP is about 13 billion Euro and the number of its employee is about 13,500.

GPB180 EDPb Package complete

It is a turn-key project of the replacement of EDP’s current plant with a new cogeneration plant. Demand of this new plant is 25MW of electricity and 49 ton / hour of steam. Steam is provided to a local acrylic textile factory company, FISIPE, and electricity is supplied to the grid.

KGE has formed a consortium with ENERGETUS Instalações Industriais SA, a local distributor of KGE in Portugal, and this consortium has made a contract with EDP. Scope of KGE is gas turbine generator sets and scope of ENERGETUS is the global engineering, civil construction, heat recovery steam generators, electrical systems, erection, commissioning and tests.

Core engines of these generator sets, the L20A and the M7A-03D gas turbine engines, have been manufactured by KHI and shipped to KGE. KGE organizes the packaging assembly with a local packaging specialist company in Germany providing it with other equipment which KGE has

procured locally. KGE plans to ship both completed generator sets of the GPB180D and the GPB80D to a site in Portugal in this summer and KGE will conduct erection, commissioning and acceptance test of first unit until the end of January next year. Operation start of this cogeneration plant is planned to be by the  end of December, 2009.

15 year of Long Term Service Agreements were contracted simultaneously as well between EDP and KGE.

It is the first order of the GPB180D in Europe, whose power plant is the L20A gas turbine engine. The L20A has been developed and enhanced based upon the highly reputed M7A gas turbine engine series. It has inherited design concept of the M7A series and experience of its development.

The L20A gas turbine engine which Kawasaki will deliver for this project is the latest enhancement type of the L20A . Its output power has increased by about 600kW and its thermal efficiency has improved by about 0.7 points from its previous type.

Development of the GPB80D gas turbine power generation system driven by Kawasaki’s new M7A-03D gas turbine was based on the GPB60D and GPB70D gas turbines that have earned a high reputation in the market. It has achieved higher performance compared with the GPB70D by approximately 10% in terms of output and 2.9 points in terms of thermal efficiency.

Taking this opportunity of this project of the first unit of the GPB180 in Europe and the GPB80D with the latest type of the M7A series gas turbine engine, Kawasaki will expand its business of gas turbine generator sets not only in Europe but also in Asia, America and Middle East.

Press Release 090511

The Kawasaki
GPB80D Gas Turbine Generator Set of E.ON Bayern Wärme Started its Operation in January 2009

The GPB80D Gas Turbine Generator Set of E.ON Bayern Wärme has started its operation in January 2009.
This Gas Turbine Generator Set is installed on the site of Fripa Paperfactory Albert Friedrich KG in Miltenberg, which is located 60 km southeast of Frankfurt, Germany. This Miltenberg Factory of Fripa Paper is the final customer of this generator set and E.ON operates it on the premises of Fripa Paper as a Build, Operation, & Ownership (BOO) operator.

Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. received this order through its European sales and service affiliate, Kawasaki Gas Turbine Europe GmbH, in 2007 as the second order of the GPB80D in Europe and all over the world.

Component of the order which Kawasaki has received is the GPB80D gas turbine generator set and its 15 years of Long Term Service Agreement. Its boiler and gas compressor were procured by E.ON.

Kawasaki’s direct customer is E.ON Bayern Wärme. The mothercompagny, the E.ON Energie is the major German energy company with annual sales about 84 billion Euro. E.ON Bayern Wärme

has contracted with Fripa Paper to provide electricity and steam to the Miltenberg factory as a BOO contractor with its cogeneration facility equipped with Kawasaki GPB80D. The amount of electricity produced is equivalent to the demand of 14.000 households, the quantity of heat provides for 4.000 households.

Fripa Paper Miltenberg factory, accompany under private ownership (a privately held company?), produces hygiene paper such as tissue, toilet and kitchen paper. The number of employees is about 340.

The Assembly of the GPB80D gas turbine generator set for this project was completed in April 2008, its test run started in July 2008. The final takeover was in January 2009.

The Development of the GPB80D gas turbine power generation system driven by Kawasaki’s new M7A-03D gas turbine was based on the GPB60D and GPB70D gas turbines that have earned a high reputation in the market. It has achieved higher performance compared with (to?) the GPB70D by approximately 10% in terms of output and 2.9 points in terms of thermal efficiency.

Taking the opportunity of this project of the GPB80D with the latest type of the M7A series gas turbine Kawasaki will expand its business of gas turbine generator sets in not only in Europe but also in Asia, America and Middle East.

Press Release 090504

Heavy duty crane lifts 51 tons weighing turbine container into FRIPA building

New Co-generation unit furnishes paper factory with steam and electricity

Miltenberg: Because of snow chaos on the highway, the heavy load carriers and the heavy duty crane of the company Scholpp arrived from Stuttgart half a day later than scheduled on the yard of the company FRIPA. Then it went quickly: In approximately two hours, the 650 tons crane lifts the gas turbine as heart of the newly engineered co-generation agreement through the open roof of the new boiler house of the company FRIPA.

The E.ON Bayern builds a co-generation agreement for the paper production of the company FRIPA with an investment volume of approximately 6.3 Million Euro. Out of this, a gas turbine produces environmentally friendly electricity and process heat in form of steam for the new paper machine.

This was required through the expansion of the Miltenberger hygienic paper manufacturer. In May a third paper machine should go into operation, which the electricity consumption and also heat consumption will increase significant.

Held up by snow chaos.

Planned was that the gas turbine container shall be set at Wednesday morning. But the firm was stopped with it’s heavily load vehicles of the Police on Tuesday evening on the highway. "That’s too dangerous", said the Police to the team, to trundle on in snow chaos on the highway no.5. First at the following day around lunchtime, the red truck was allowed to continue and arrived about 13:00 o'clock the FRIPA business yard. First of all the 650-tons crane has been loaded with counterweight of more than 200 tons on both sides.

The 13 meter long and 2.60 meters wide container for the gas turbine stopped a day long close to the Miltenberger railway station where it was waiting for its lift into FRIPA. After the trucks of the company Scholpp were gone all out of the yard, the place was free for the "steel giants".

The 13 meters long container that dangles here at the crane covers a huge gas turbine. The gas turbine will produce as of June the electricity and steam for the paper machines of the company FRIPA.

The gas turbine container became respectively with three steel cords secured to right and to the left site before the crane lifted it into the air. The exact positioning of this boiler in the building is even more difficult than the put of the turbine because the crane has to strike out with his heavy load.

This work demanded the crane operator and its colleagues on the building a high measure at concentration and skilfulness. The lifting act lasted only approximately 25 minutes, the preparations and further studies for that several hours. Around 16:30 o’clock, therefore eight hours later than planned, the gas turbine stood then finally at its dedicated place.

Yesterday the boiler was lifted into the co-generation station, also a heavy and large chunk. The boiler shall be taken into operation on June 30th. With the environmentally friendly produced electricity, the city of Miltenberg and the city of Bürgstadt could be - just mathematically - supplied. By use of the co-generation technology simultaneously produced process heat would be good for approximately 4000 households.

Article: Original German language by Anja Keilbach, MainEcho, Miltenberg, Germany28.03.2008. Copy authorized by MainEcho for Kawasaki. Translation made by Kawasaki Gas Turbine Europe, Bad Homburg, Germany.

New Gas Turbine
of Kawasaki

In this Gas Turbine Set of the type label GPB 80D it concerns a further development of more high-performance around 700 KW of the market acquainted Generator Sets GPB 70 and GPB 60. In equal fuel use, the effect degree in the so-called M7-Class (5.4 up to 7.4 megawatts electric output) could be increased around further 10 percent. KAWASAKI sets internationally new standards with this new developed Gas Turbine.

After contract signature: (l.t.r)
L. Fricke (Kawasaki), J. Becker (KGU), N. Saup (KGU), R. Deranek (Kawasaki), S. Noumi (Kawasaki).

Written: Stadtwerke Aalen, Abteilung Marketing und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit, 4.12.2007
www.sw-aalen.de

Product drying further optimezes

Factory of Kali + Salz-Plant Zielitz takes a new Gas Turbine into commercial operation

Kali + Salz-Plant Zielitz planned before the background of climbed reference prices for electric energy a further improvement in the drying area of the factory business.  Said and done!  A new Gas Turbine in the area of drying of Industry- Potassium-Salt was taken in August this year into commercial operation. 

Gerd Schmelzer, Head of power plant Zielitz, appreciates the new Gas Turbine of the type Kawasaki GPB15D, because the Gas Turbine takes substantially to the stabilization of the process availability in the drying of the products by and guarantees a high quantities throughput. In the Gas Turbine manufactured by the Turbine expert Kawasaki Gas Turbine Europe GmbH is used 600 cubic meters natural gases per hour as a primary energy source. The Turbine produces from that 1.5 MW electric energy and delivers 4.5 MW heat energy (respectively per hour) as exhaust flue gases for the drying process.
Example of the unit was the plant Neuhof-Ellers, where already beginning of the 1990 years of exhaust flue gases of a Gas Turbine were used as combustion air for the drying process. The Gas Turbine placed in an illuminating red painted housing fulfils all demanded parameters of the alliance immission protection ordinance (BlmSchV) and the technical instructions to keeping the air clean (TA air). The construction of the Gas Turbine was for the German Kawasaki-daughter a pilot project, for a linking such a machine into a producing factory business was for the business in Bad Homburg a totally new experience.
Gerd Schmelzer is happy about the smooth flow of the total project, in that the K + S KALI GmbH approximately 1.7 million € invests.  Of the order in November 2005 over the delivery in the early summer 2006 up to the final starting in this year' repair recess all ran like perfectly accident free. “Meanwhile is also the first, routine prescribed maintenance has been executed", says Gerd Schmelzer and shows on that, that the expectations set into the new Gas Turbine full were fulfilled. 
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Gerd Schmelzer, Head of power plant Zielitz, in front of the modern control panel of the new Gas Turbine.

The new Gas Turbine of the plant is complete insulated, an effective measure in order to reduce the noise level of the generator. 

View into the "heart" of the new Gas Turbine.

All photos:  K + S/Straub  
Article: Original German language by K + S information, Ausgabe 6-2006. Copy authorized for Kawasaki. Translation made by Kawasaki Gas Turbine Europe, Bad Homburg, Germany.

Combined Heat and Power Generation at DuPont

A brilliant idea becomes reality: Today Dr. Axel Horstmann, Minister for regional environmental protection, took together with the Pfalzwerk-Management Günther Koch, Wilfried Rüter, works director DuPont de Nemours Deutschland, and the mayor of the city Hamm, Thomas Hunsteger-Petermann, the Biomass Heating Power Station as well as the Combined Heat and Power Plant (CHP Plant) officially into operation on the ground of DuPont de Nemours at the industry park Hamm-Uentrop.

The modernized energy supply concept for the works ground of the company DuPont consists of two high modern technologies: The new Biomass Heating Power Station with efficient CHP technology designed for base load supply of the low pressure steam net and the new gas turbine generator set in CHP operation for the constant load supply of the high pressure steam net. The existing gas fired boilers will take over the peak shaving process. The Pfalzwerke achieved this concept in narrow cooperation with DuPont de Nemours, the district government Arnsberg as well as the City Hamm and domestic partner companies, as for example the Stadwerke Hamm - and this in a record construction time of only 10 month: In November 2002 DuPont, the Pfalzwerke and the Pfalzwerke-daughter K-Park Energie GmbH signed the contracts about the new supply concept. In March 2003 it was begun with the concrete works and already in the middle of December 2003 the Steam- and Gas turbine gen-erator sets could produce electrical energy, which was entered into the public net of the Stadtwerke Hamm.

The Pfalzwerke developed, built and financed the Biomass Heating Power Station and the Generator Set, which together correspond a market value of about 25 Million Euro.

The operating Company K-Park Energie GmbH is as local partner company the Know-how-carrier on site for the supply of the industry park with all necessary energies. The resident companies can profit medium term of this contracting model: The operator company takes over the entire responsibility for the energy and media supply for existing customers or possible new systems if required, as related to the electricity, gas, steam, heating, refrigeration or compressed air.

The Biomass Heating Power Station has a maximum electric output of around 5 megawatt and a low pressure steam amount of 26 tons per hour. The Gasturbine Generator driven CHP supplies nearly 2 megawatt electric output as well as around 7 t/h high pressure steam.

On basis of the Renewable-Energy-Law (EEG) and the Combined Heat and Power Law (KWKG) the electric energy will be entered in each case into the net of the electric public grid Company, the Stadtwerke Hamm.

This new concept gives the environment two decisive advantages: The wood chopping-chips supply electricity and heat, without increasing of the greenhouse effect any more. Because the thermal utilization of wood occurs in a with low emissions way and can be classified as CO2-neutral due to using latest technologies. Through the decoupling of heat is reached in addition a use of the primary energy in an exceptional way efficient and a surpassing efficacy.

Article: PFALZWERKE Information, Ludwigshafen, Uentrop
5th March 2004
Translation: KAWASAKI Gasturbine Europe GmbH

Highlights of KAWASAKI Installation

September 2003 - Starting with Steel Frame Structure

October 2003 - Closing of the Gasturbine hall

November 2003 - Details GPB 06

February 2004 - Finishing of the outside areas

View into official plant start secession on
5th March 2004

Pictures: KAWASAKI Gas Turbine Europe GmbH

Biggest Single investment in infrastructure

New engineering for power station in the industrial park / Ready with gas turbine for new settlement

To the infrastructure of the industrial park Walsrode belongs the own positioned power station with the two far seen chimneys. With a new, four million Euro expensive gas turbine generator set the industrial park put a next milestone in its infrastructure. The new gas turbine that should be put into operation in autumn was delivered now.

Bomlitz, Germany.
Industrial park leader Alf Wilkens underlines the meaning of the new gas turbine: "With this biggest single investment into the infra structure we are back upping on long-term efficient and ecologically friendly the power supply of the societies at the location." The Probis as technical services provider for the location has here by ongoing power station work a very complex engineering task before itself - from the planning over the putting in operation till the later working of the new turbine.

The standards of the companies in the industrial park to the supply are high. For the production Probis delivers big amounts of energy in form of natural gas, steam, electricity and compressed air around the clock. Through combined heat and power generation will be produced with the new gas turbine system electricity and at the same time steam especially economical friendly.

"Through the more efficient usage of the natural gas will be minimized the carbon dioxide and greenhouse gases. We can now deliver around the

half more electricity by at the same time better protection of the climate", explained Joachim Kulms, leader of the power station.

At the putting in action work beside the 25-heads business team of the power station other Probis-areas together. After the building of the power station was already prepared appropriate, now the installation of the new technique has to be made.

Red colossus:
The new gas turbine generator set weights 56 tons and will bring a power of around seven megawatt. That would be enough to drive on two ICE-trains. After delivery the machine will be installed now.

Bomlitz Newspaper 18.03.2004