Kwinana Cogeneration Plant

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Kwinana Cogeneration Plant is located 40 kilometres south of Perth, Western Australia. It provides steam and electrical power to the BP Australia Kwinana Oil Refinery. As a cogeneration plant, Kwinana supplies both steam and electrical power. Steam production from the plant is supported by burning refinery fuel gas from the BP Refinery. Waste heat from the gas turbine exhausts drives a steam turbine, further enhancing the plant's efficiency.

Kwinana also supplies electricity to Verve Energy. Kwinana produces 118MW of electricity, or approximately 6% of Western Australia's requirements. It is primarily fuelled by natural gas from Western Australia's North West Shelf gas fields. The plant is certified for its environmental practices, quality assurance and health and safety.

History

Kwinana Cogeneration Plant was commissioned in December 1996. It is jointly owned by a consortium International Power plc and Mitsui & Co Ltd (IPM) and Transfield Services.

References

External links

v t e Energy in Western Australia

Coal	Bluewaters Collie Kwinana Muja Worsley Alumina

Gas	Cockburn Dampier Kwinana Kwinana Co-gen Mungarra Neerabup Newman Pinjar Pinjarra Port Hedland Telfer Gold Mine Wagerup

Major hydro	Ord River Hydro Wellington Dam

Wind farms	Albany Collgar Emu Downs Nine Mile Beach Ten Mile Lagoon Walkaway

Companies	Alinta ATCO ERM Power Griffin Energy Horizon Power Synergy Verve Energy Western Power Rio Tinto Iron Ore

Historical	State Energy Commission of Western Australia Fuel and Power Commission Western Power Corporation

List of power stations in Western Australia

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike; additional terms may apply for the media files.