GAS ENGINE-CHP PLANT HANDED OVER TO CLIENTS IN GERMANY

Wednesday, October 30th, 2019

MAN Energy Solutions has fully commissioned the new CHP (Combined-Heat-and¬-Power) plant for Schwäbisch Hall Municipal Utilities in southern Germany, and handed it over to the client. The company was contracted in August 2017 to supply an MAN 12V35/44G TS gas engine to replace the plant’s two existing engines of 3 MW output each; the engine’s two-stage turbocharging design makes the 7.5 MW unit particularly efficient. As a result, the Schwäbisch Hall CHP plant now achieves a fuel efficiency of up to 90%. “The new engine will achieve an electrical efficiency of 47%, compared to the 39% of the previous units,” confirmed Gebhard Gentner, Managing Director of Schwäbisch Hall Municipal Utilities. “This means a 20% increase in the efficiency of the plant as a whole, thereby fulfilling the requirements stipulated in the German CHP Act for the plant to be operated commercially.”