Vietnamese-made power equipment shipped to the US

September 11, 2015 | 16:32

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Doosan Heavy Industries Vietnam (Doosan Vina) recently sent 2,100 tonnes of components for two 300MW heat recovery steam generators to the Salem Harbour Combined-Cycle Gas Turbine Power Plant in the US state of Massachusetts.

“This is our first ever products to go to the US and it marks a new milestone for us. Our products are now present and hard at work in 27 countries around the world and that figure will be going up soon”, said Nguyen Tan Hong, HRSG Production Department leader.

The Salem Harbour Combined-Cycle Gas Turbine Power Plant project was signed in December 2013 to supply two heat recovery steam generators that will increase the efficiency of the plant by up to 30 per cent.

The total weight of the two units is 4,200 tonnes and took 179 skilled workers in Doosan Vina’s HRSG shop five months to manufacture.

The first shipment included ten modules weighing 2,100 tonnes that were shipped from Doosan Vina’s specialised port in central Vietnam’s Quang Ngai province. The biggest module in the shipment was 30 metres long, 4.4 metres wide and 6 metres high.

The second and final shipment for the project is scheduled this month.

The natural gas-fired Salem Harbour Power Station, located 30km from Boston, Massachusetts will have an installed capacity of 674MW. Commissioning activities are expected in 2016 and steam production is scheduled for early 2017.

It is projected to supply electricity to 600,000 homes, filling the power gap in the region and offsetting approximately 450,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions per year.

Doosan Vina, part of Korean industrial conglomerate Doosan Group, is one of Vietnam’s biggest foreign-invested heavy-industry factories. It was launched in mid-May, 2009 in Quang Ngai province’s Dung Quat Economic Zone, with an investment capital of $300 million.

By By Mai Thuy

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