KSB Power Plant Technology for India

Thordon Bearings has further strengthened its presence in the Taiwanese market, delivering water-lubricated elastomeric polymer bearings for installation to cooling water pumps commissioned for a major power plant expansion project.

Sulzer engineers custom boiler feed pumps with updated hydraulic design for 50% less than replacement cost. Power stations using steam turbines to drive generators are reliant on boiler feed pumps, among several other vital pieces of equipment, to ensure output to the grid matches demand from consumers.

The delivery object is part of the first of three 55 MVA generators for the renewal of the power station Töging am Inn. The stator has a diameter of 8.2 meters and a weight of over 100 tons.

Power station reduces downtime by using Sulzer as a pre-approved supplier for maintenance.

Modern chemical manufacturing plants depend on numerous important assets for reliable operation to maintain productivity. Retaining legacy equipment is a cost-effective way to minimize capital expenditure, provided efficiency and reliability can be upheld. The implementation of retrofit projects allows modern materials and parts manufacturing techniques to update existing components extending the asset’s service life.

Steam turbines provide essential power to large industrial plants and if they develop a fault there is an urgency to repair and get them back online. Sulzer helped one of its customers by manufacturing 500 new turbine blades and repairing a steam turbine that had been written off by the original equipment manufacturer (OEM), minimizing the cost and time to get the vital asset operational.