DIESEL POWER PLANTS LANDKRAFTVERK
The new Barbados Plant
Året var 1982 och anläggningen överlämnades vecka 37 efter avslutade commisionings and tests.
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The power station was built as a turnkey project by the Swedish concern Gotaverken and is an interesting illustration of the degree to which low speed diesel engines are proving attractive for power generation systems that are reliant on fuel oil.
Barbados Light and Power Company, already operate a mixed bag of generating plant involving steam turbines, gas turbines, medium speed diesel engines and high speed diesel engines to a total of some 96 MW. The power produced is transmitted to about 67 000 customers around the island.
The power plant for Barbados has a number of features dictated by the site conditions and the operator's requirements, but is otherwise fairly typical of the type of low speed diesel engine plant Gotaverken expect to supply elsewhere.
An earlier production by the company, the Bushrod station for Monrovia in Liberia has two 14 MW Gotaverken/B&W K67 GS engines. This station, the engines of which are illustrated, was completed in 1980. A third engine has been ordered and will be installed in late 1982.
Gotaverken Motor AB has its offices and works in Gothenburg (Goteborg) on the Swedish west coast, just across the river from the city centre.
In the mid 1970's the Swedish shipbuilding, marine engineering and allied heavy industries were reorganised as companies linked to a parent known as Swedyards Corp. This Swedyards group includes Gotaverken Motor AB building diesel engines under licence from the B&W concern and applying them to marine and power generation duties, and also a number of other Gotaverken companies, for example the Cityvarvet repair yard and Arendal shipyard.
Gotaverken has a number of subsidiaries;
a wholly owned company in Singapore — Gotaverken Singapore, and 50 per cent stakes in Lindholmen Motor AB, who are Pielstick licencees in Sweden, and B&W Scandinavian Contractor. Besides diesel power plants and their engines Gotaverken Motor also produce heat exchangers and reactor towers and vessels for the petrochemical industry plus heat pump plants. A total of some 885 people are employed and the present turnover is in the region of Sw. Kr. 400 million per year.Diesel engines
Gotaverken Motor has a very long history as a manufacturer of diesel engines, although until fairly recently these were power stations Motor purely marine diesels. Engines were built under licence from Burmeister and Wain in Copenhagen from 1915 until 1947 but in 1936 the company started designing and building its own marine engine of low speed twostroke design. This activity continued until 1972 and 854 engines were built of which some 700 are still in service (1982) for a total 7 million bhp. In 1972 Gotaverken gave up their engine design and once more concentrated on building B&W engines under licence and this arrangement continues to the present. The nature of the licensor has of course changed, with the acquisition of the B&W concern by MAN in Germany and the formation of the new company to look after the twostroke diesel interests, B&W Diesel AS based in Copenhagen. Since 1974 90 engines have been built to B&W design, the Barbados plant representing both the latest engines to be built and the newest design, the L-GSCA type with 12 cylinders each of 550 mm bore using uniflow scavenge. The company is now one of the biggest producers of B&W engines in Europe. Gotaverken involvement with stationary plant began about five years ago. The increasing cost and decreasing quality of heavy fuel oil had made the low speed twostroke engine more attractive for power generation
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