UAE’s M-Station expansion project inaugurated
The President of Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA), Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum, has inaugurated the extension project of M-Station in Jebel Ali, the largest power and water desalination plant in the UAE.
With the construction of the extension, the total cost of M-Station reached over $3.1 billion while its production capacity reached 2,885 megawatts (MW) and 140 million gallons of desalinated water per day. Built according to the highest standards of availability, reliability, efficiency and quality, the $428 million extension project added new generating units with a capacity of 700MW.
“The extension to the M-Station supports the UAE’s strategy to adopt innovation and shape the future. We made sure that we followed world-class standards in various stages of this project’s implementation, as well as world-class operational technologies, state-of-the-art smart solutions, and information technology systems. The extension design has a 90% fuel efficiency rate. This project has been completed with over 20 million Safe Man Hours without Lost Time Injury. The project focused on capacity building and the transfer of international expertise to UAE nationals, contributing to the Emiratisation of the energy sector,” said Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer.
Before the extension, M-Station generated 2,185MW of electricity from six Siemens F-model gas turbines, each with a capacity of 255MW, six Doosan Waste-Heat Recovery Boilers for steam generation, three Alstom steam turbines with a capacity of 218MW each.
The extension project added a total of 700MW of electricity to the M-Station. It includes two dual-fuel gas turbine generators each with a capacity of 263.5 MW, two Waste Heat-Recovery Boilers for steam generation and a back pressure steam turbine from Siemens with a capacity of 173MW. The extension’s design has a 90% fuel efficiency, which has increased the plant’s overall fuel efficiency from 82.4% to 85.8%, which is one of the highest fuel efficiency rates in the world.
The extension project has increased M-station’s total capacity to 2,885MW.
Source: Construction Business News
Photo (for illustrative purposes): Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum / IMF / Wikipedia / Public Domain
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