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Aeroderivatives in Mining

Sector
Proven solutions for a fast growing industry

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Jan 25th, 2012

Bala Naidu
John Welch
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Outline
Product and Business Overview
Experience in Mining Sector
Technology updates
Flexibility
Fuel Flexibility
Combustion – DLE/SAC

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GE: Four segments aligned for growth
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Global Mining at GE
June 2010
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GE – Solutions for Mining
GE offers a broad range of products and services for
each step of the mining process
GE Water & GE Energy & GE GE Home & GE Industrial
Process Transportation Business
Technologies GE Energy Services Solutions

•Reverse osmosis •Steam turbines •Motors (for •Locomotives •Intelligent •Lighting


draglines, Platforms
•Mobile water •Aeroderivative crushers, •Diesel engines •Electrical
systems gas turbines grinders) •Automation distribution
•Signalling and
•Chemical •Heavy duty gas •Inspection communication •Control Systems •Switchgear
processing turbines technologies products
•Embedded •Circuit breakers
•DusTreat dust •Jenbacher •Multilin •OHVs Systems
control engines •Arc Vault
•Sensing •AC and DC electric
•Thermal •Environmental drive systems
evaporative technologies
systems •Stationary gensets

… while offering tools to help finance the growth through GE Capital


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June 2010
Over 4,100 commercial aircraft …
+182 million flight hours
LMS100
100MW

LM6000*
A330 / B747/B767 CF6-80C2/E1 40-55MW

LM2500*+/G4
28-34MW

LM1800e - LM2500
C5 / DC-10 TF39/CF6-6 16-24MW

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Where do LM Gas Turbines go?
Power Generation, 65%
Oil & Gas, 35% Marine
Wind Firming

Industrial Utility
Platform
>3,300 LMs
>85 million hrs
~55 countries
Floating Production
Mobile Power Vessels
Platform

District Heating
Pipeline

 Efficiency  Reliability  Availability  Flexibility  Low Emissions


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Introducing the FlexAero LM6000-PH
Offers an unmatched combination of speed, flexibility and
efficiency with zero water needs for emissions controls

FAST
• 5 minute fast start; 10 min. standard
• 80% CC plant load in 10 min … 100%
in <40 min
• 50 MW/min ramp rate
• 6-9 month production cycle
• 60-70 days simple cycle I&C
PERFORMANCE
FLEX
Attributes LM6000-PH
• 42% efficiency @ 40% load in CC
SC Power Output ISO 48.1 MW • Capable of SC, CC, or CHP application
SC Efficiency 42.0% • 12 days of planned outage in 50K hours
CC Power Output ISO • DLE2.0 zero water needs for emissions
>120 MW • Modified Wobbe Index 35-60
2x1 configuration
• Variable SPRINT®
CC Efficiency >54 % • Multiple starts-stops per day
NOx Emissions (ppm) 15 • Small foot print … 17 m x 15 m

Claiming the space as: The world’s fastest, most flexible,


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… Delivering rapid power
TM2500… 31MW mobile gas turbine

Fast power, first in … anywhere in the world


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LMS100 DLE Power Plant … Launch
project

At the 2014 Sochi, Russia winter Olympics, the


LMS100 PB will be reaching for the gold as the
preferred power provider with 2x LMS100 PB plant.
Using advanced DLE2 technology, the need for water
for emissions control is eliminated, making it the
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Mining
GE solutions cross mining value chain
Drilling
Crushing
Mining
Operations
Loading

Transportation
Grinding

Rail
Concentration Flotation
Pipeline
& Tailings

Refining/
pelletization

Power plant

Refining /
Desalinazation
plant Pelletization

Water Transportation Automation Electronic


Dust Control Environmental Tech Condition Monitoring & Reliability
PG & Distribution Motors Inspection & Measurement
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Aeroderivative Solutions for Mining

Aeroderivative Power Plant

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Aeroderivatives in Mining Sector

 Fast installation
 Minimum/Remote maintenance
 High availability
 High Efficiency
 Cycling capability to handle load
fluctuations
 Fuel Flexibility – Dual fuel capability
 Fast Start/Black Start capability
 Trailer mounted solutions available

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Aeroderivatives in Mining/Cement

Netherlands
1 LM5000
1 LM1600 Russia
2xLM25
USA Spain
1 LM16 Turkey
3 LM6000 Indonesia
1 LM25 2 LM6000
2 LM5000
Libya
2xLM25
Israel
Nigeria 1 LM6000
4xLM6000
Colombia
3 LM6000 Botswana
1 LM2500 2xLM6000

Australia
19 LM6000
2 TM2500

PLUS Several more IPP’s supporting grid fluctuations around mining


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Units > 800,000 hours
High time unit in mining site > 100,000 hours 17
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Coal Mine Western Australia
2xLM6000

Copper Mine
Wyoming, USA 3xLM6000
At the Orapa Plant in Bostwana,
3XLM6000 two GE Aero LM6000s generate
over 80 MW of power, using coal
Commissioned in 2006-07 bed methane gas with dual fuel
capability. Fast, flexible power
supporting the largest open pit
diamond mine in the world.

Cement Plant, Nigeria


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Coal Mine Western Australia
2xLM6000

Copper Mine
Wyoming, USA 3xLM6000
3XLM6000 Cement Plant in Turkey
Commissioned in 2006-07

Cement Plant, Nigeria 2xLM6000


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Karratha Power Station - Australia

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Newcrest Mines – Telfer, Australia

Flexibility

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3xLM6000
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Nuh Cimento Fabrikasi – Hereke, Turkey

LM6000

Reliability
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Bucket operation takes cycling to a whole
new level 450,000 cycles
a year for the
__ Pit load
past 7 years __ Single GT output
The LM6000 gas
turbine has the

Change in kW
proven reliability
and mechanical
capability to
serve the most
challenging
system
demands.
15 seconds
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Anticipation Logic to handle V and f
Total Mine Load Hit Max 15 MW
51.5 Hz
GT Load
Acceptance
Anticipator
Raise to 51 Hz

5.4MW

50 Hz
+/- 3%
Freq drop = 49.31 Hz
GT Running
Steady State Gen steady
50 Hz state 11.4 kV
Volt drop = 11.02 KV

48.5 Hz
Base load 7.5 MW Total Total Load Hit 10.8 MW
~ 33MW/s

750ms

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1st ever… Coal Bed Methane to power
1st private power project in sub-Saharan Africa since WW2
At the Orapa Plant in Bostwana, two GE
Aero LM6000s generate over 80 MW of
power, using coal bed methane gas with
dual fuel capability. Fast, flexible power
supporting the largest open pit diamond
mine in the world.

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Offshore installations have to meet similar
technical criteria as remote mining operations
Asgaard A
2 x LM6000 + 2 x LM2500+

Asgaard A

Schiehallion

Triton

Schiehallion
2 x LM6000 Tanir Bavi Floating Power Plant
4 not
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Flexibility
Features of flexibility
Supporting evolving energy demands
• Multiple starts per day
• 50MW/min ramp rate
• Complimenting variable
generation
• 100MWe building blocks of
efficient generation
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Features of flexibility
LMS100 fast dispatch example
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90 47MW/min
80

70

60

50

40

30

20

10

0 Stop for 25 mins


9:00 10:00 11:00 12:00 13:00 14:00 15:00 16:00 17:00 18:00 19:00 20:00 21:00 22:00

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Features of flexibility
Modular Maintenance Philosophy
Replaceable
Supercore
(<48 Hr change out)

Maintenance Intervals:
Borescope - 4, 000 Hrs
Hot Section - 25,000 Hrs
Overhaul - 50,000 Hrs
(Supercore + LPT)
Hot Section - 75,000 Hrs
Overhaul - 100,000 Hrs
(Booster + Supercore + LPT)

Rotable Modules:
• Combustor
• HPT
• IPT
• LPT R/S

Total down time < 4 days with rotables


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Features of flexibility
Aeroderivative service intervals drive higher availability
On-Condition Maintenance Activity Duration
•BSI @ 450 starts, 4,000 hrs, or annually… 12 hours
•Hot section exchange expected at 25,000 hrs… 4 days
•Hot section, booster, & PT expected at 50,000 hrs… 4 days
•Hot section exchange expected at 75,000 hrs… 4 days
•Hot section, booster, & PT expected at 100,000 hrs… 8 days

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Combustion Technology
Combustion Systems
Single-Annular Combustor (SAC) Dry-Low-Emissions (DLE) Combustor

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Flexible emissions reduction …
LM2500+
LM2500+G4
LM6000
LM2500

LMS100
Single Annular
Combustor
Control technology
Water injection
P P P PP 25ppm NOx (gas fuel)
P P P PP 42ppm NOx (liquid fuel)
Steam Injection
P P PP 25ppm NOx (gas fuel)
P +15ppm NOx (gas fuel) Triple Annular
Dry Low Emissions Combustor
PD P 15ppm NOx (gas fuel)
PP P P P 25ppm NOx (gas fuel)
P 65ppm NOx (liquid fuel)
PP P 100ppm NOx (liquid fuel)
P PPP Dual Fuel DLE
D = Under Development
GT offerings as of 3Q2011

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Wide range of combustion systems
– serving differing needs
LM2500 SAC - 76% Dry
Operating hours (millions)
35
Liquid-Steam
30
Dual-Steam
25 Gas-Steam
20 Liquid-Dry
Dual-Dry
15 LM6000 SAC – 96% Wet
Gas-Dry
10 Liquid-Water
5 Dual-Water
Gas-Water
0
SAC DLE SAC SAC DLE
LM6000 LM2500
Estimated data as of August, 2011

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LM2500+ Efficiency Comparison
From SAC dry to 25ppm reduces NOx by ~90%
DLE reduces CO 2 by 3% vs. SAC wet

Abatement technology eliminates ~1000 tons of NOx annually.


DLE further eliminates 4M tons of CO2 vs water injection

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Single Annular Combustor

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Fuel nozzle to SAC Combustor interface
must be considered when selecting the
emissions control method
Fuel
nozzle tip
diameter

Primary
swirler
diameter

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LM2500 product line has 2 swirler diameters,
therefore another degree of flexibility

Original LM2500 High flow LM2500 LM6000

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World-leading technology for aeroderivatives

imagination at work
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Leaders in DLE combustion for
aeroderivative gas turbines …
… close to 700 units and >15 million hours!!

LM2500
Gas 428 9,518,850
Dual 11 44,494

LM6000
Gas 25 ppm 214 5,655,590
Gas 15 ppm 35 168,912
Dual 25 ppm 4 125,913
Dual 15 ppm 2 88,570
Data as of Aug 3, 2011

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DLE Combustor Design Evolution
DLE1
LM2500 Base & +
DLE1.5
LM2500 +G4
DLE2
LM6000PH
LM6000PB & PD LM6000PF LMS100PB

Now also for the


LM2500 at 15ppm!! 15 premixers
30 premixers
75 cups 30 cups

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Taking combustion technology to the next level

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Features of DLE2 technology

Lean Premixed Combustion


Tight Flame temperature
boundaries
Enhanced Controls
Same combustor envelope
and Compressor Rear Frame
interfaces as LM6000
New domeplate designs
Acoustics abatements

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Similar approach for the LM6000-PH
Minimize changes to the turbomachinery
Maintain ALL common SAC components with the exception of …
Combustor Stg1 Nozzle optimized
Premixer
(Dual Annular) cooling to match
LM6000-PH CRF temperature profile

LM6000-PG
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Fuel Flexibility
GE Aero non-standard fuel capabilities

LM2500  P P P P P P   P Design or experience DLE and SAC


P Design or experience SAC
LM6000 P P P P P P P   Would quote for DLE, may require
requisition custom fuel system

LMS100  P  P      Would quote for SAC, may require


requisition custom fuel system

**Contact GE for specific engine options and package configurations

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What are non-standard gas fuels?
Fuels characterized by the following LHV and constituents:
• Modified Wobbe Index < 40 or > 60 • High H2 fuels > 5% by volume
• Low to med BTU fuels, LHV < ~800 BTU/SCF • High CO, CO2, N2, C2+
• High BTU fuels, LHV > ~1200 BTU/SCF
LNG, Associated
100
Flare Gas
Modified Wobbe Index Parameter

90 • High C2+
80 C2+
70 Refinery, Process
LNG Off Gases
60 • High N2, CO2 • High H2, CO2, CO
50 NG
H2
40

30
COG, Low BTU
20 N2, CO, Syngas
10 CO2 • High H2, CO2, CO
0
0 10000 20000 30000 40000 50000
See spec MID-TD-0000-1 for final 48
Heating Value – Btu/lb determination on acceptable fuel usage
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What are the liquid fuel capabilities?
Lower heating value (per density) Demonstrated

8,500 11,500 13,000 15,000 17,000 18,500 19,000 20,000 BTU/lb

MJ/kg
20 25 30 35 40 43 45 50

Lower heating value (per volume)

56,000 76,000 96,000 106,000 116,000 126,000 136,000 BTU/gal

16 21 27 30 32 35 38 MJ/L

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Gas fuel specification update
• Tabulated MWI and fuel composition limits for all LM models

• Expanded DLE C2+ limits


– LM1600 15%  35%
– LM2500 / LM2000 15%  35% Expanded
– LM2500+ / LM2500+G4 15%  30%
– LM6000TM / LMS100 15%  24%

New
• Addressed contaminants butadiene and siloxanes

• Included H2 limits for SAC Updated

• Greatly expanded fuel test method section to include ISO methods

• Added flare gases to fuel classification and consolidated others


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