Black & Veatch selected for expansion work at Indralaya power plant

Black & Veatch, a leading global engineering, consulting and construction company, has been awarded a contract to provide engineering, procurement and construction services for the expansion of the natural gas-fired Indralaya power plant in Indonesia. The increased plant capacity will provide needed power supplies to the South Sumatra power grid.

The Indralaya plant is owned by PT PLN, the Indonesia state electricity company. When the expanded plant goes into commercial operation in mid-2008, the plant?s output will be increased from 84 megawatts to 124 megawatts of electricity.

Black & Veatch?s work involves the addition of heat recovery steam generators and a steam turbine generator for conversion of two gas turbines to combined cycle operations. Combined cycle plants use both natural gas and steam turbine cycles to produce electricity with high efficiency and lower air emissions.

The combined cycle conversion project harnesses the waste heat that is presently discharged to the environment to generate steam to drive a steam turbine generator. This results in increased power generation while burning the same amount of natural gas feedstock.(alex)