DUBAI 13 August 2017: More than 70 per cent of Dubai Electricity & Water Authority (Dewa) newest and largest electricity generation and water desalination plant in the UAE – M-Station – has been completed.
Since 2015, Dewa has been working with Siemens on the Jebel Ali M-Station expansion, as the total cost of M-Station construction and expansion is Dh11.5 billion.
The station’s total capacity will reach 2,885MW when the expansion project is completed in 2018. This includes new power generating units, adding 700MW to the installed generation capacity of M-Station. The expansion project includes the addition of two dual-fuel gas turbine generators, two heat-recovery steam boilers, and a steam turbine that is 90 per cent fuel efficient. This will increase the plant’s thermal efficiency from 82.4 per cent to 85.8 per cent, which is one of the highest thermal-efficiency rates in the world.
Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, Dewa MD & CEO reviewed the progress of M-Station expansion along with Nasser Lootah, Executive Vice President of Generation, Mansoor Al Suwaidi, Vice President for Projects Generation, Masoud Kamali, manager for the project, Adel Shukralla, Senior Manager of Projects at M-Station, and Majed Abdullah, Senior Manager of Administration (Fire & Security).
Al Tayer was briefed by Siemens representatives on the construction, engineering, and operational progress of the expansion project, which is going according to schedule. Over 70 per cent of the project has been completed. This includes pouring 45,000 cubic metres of concrete (96 per cent complete), erecting 4,900 tonnes of structural steel and heavy metal work (75 per cent complete), and 8.3 million safe man-hours without any injuries.
DEWA works to build a robust infrastructure to enhance its total production capacity, which is currently 10,200MW of electricity and 470 million imperial gallons of desalinated water per day (MIGD).
M-Station is the newest and largest electricity generation and water desalination plant in the UAE, with a current total capacity of 2,185MW of electricity and 140 MIGD.
M-Station was built at a cost of Dh10.15 billion. Dh6.2 billion were invested to generate 2,185MW of electricity from 6 gas turbines (F-model) from Siemens, with a capacity of 255MW for each unit, 6 boilers for waste-heat recovery and 3 steam turbines, with a capacity of 218MW each.
The project has been implemented in phases since mid-2010. Water desalination systems costing Dh3.95 billion use 8 desalination units, deploying Multi-Stage Flash (MSF) distillation technology, each with a capacity of 17.5 MIGD and totalling 140 MIGD, two dual-fuel-fired auxiliary boilers of 390 tonnes per hour, and 16 fuel-oil storage tanks, each with a capacity of 20,000 cubic metres, with total fuel-oil storage of 320,000 cubic metres.
By Rajive Singh