MHPS Receives Order for Gas Turbine Power Generation Equipment Fired by Blast Furnace Gas for Shougang Jingtang Company, China
-- First Sale of Latest M701 S(DA) X Overseas Model --

Yokohama, August 18, 2016 -- Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems (MHPS) has received an order for one train of blast-furnace-gas (BFG) fired gas turbine power generation equipment from Shougang Jingtang Iron & Steel Co., Ltd. (Shougang Jingtang Company). The equipment will be a key component of the Gas Turbine Combined-Cycle (GTCC) power plant that Shougang Jingtang Company plans to build in the Caofeidian Phase 2 Project in Tangshan, Hebei Province. In the project, low calorific value gas that is generated by the blast furnace process will be effectively used by the GTCC, and it will be the first time that the state-of-the-art M701 S(DA)X gas turbine will be used overseas to achieve high efficiency. Operations are planned to commence in the first half of 2018.