Petro Min Engineers Win Power Station Design Contracts
10 November 2009
Petro Min Engineers, based in Perth, Western Australia, have recently won a detailed design and engineering contract for several power stations, which includes embedded generation for peak load lopping and the sale of excess power into the utility distribution networks.
Two of these power stations are in South Australia and are for peak energy sales into the national electrical grid. They are rated as 20MWand 65MW respectively. The 20MW station is a diesel-fuelled station with duplicate 11kV connections to the utilities' nearby zone substation. The 65MW station is also diesel-fuelled and uses a single 66kV connection to the utilities' major network substation.
The remaining two stations are gas-fuelled reciprocating stations with two 2MW gas engines connected in a cogeneration arrangement with electrical utilities. One station is based in Victoria and the other in New South Wales. They are continuously rated and have an extensive waste heat recovery system to provide hot water to both locations – one is a hospital and the other a manufacturing facility.
With an increase in the number of small power stations being connected to the grid in Australia, Petro Min Engineers have a significant history of successful implementation of projects of this nature, and are well placed to continue to win these types of contracts in the future.
