1500 revolutions per minute in Cuba
20 February 2016The recently inaugurated power plant in Moa, Cuba, is one of the largest projects supplied by MAN Diesel & Turbo in the Caribbean region. Located about 600m from the sea near Moa city, about 900 km south-east from Havana, the plant has a total power output of 184 MW. Moa is an industrial city with many open nickel mines and is located on Cuba’s north-east coast.
The power plant is owned by Energoimport, the Cuban agency responsible for the procurement and importation to Cuba of all electricity-related components and services.
MAN Diesel & Turbo supplied basic and detailed engineering, procurement of all equipment, and supervision of installation and commissioning. The plant consists of ten gensets powered by MAN 18V 48/60B engines rated at 18.4 MW each and will run parallel to the grid in base-load mode under normal operation. MAN Diesel & Turbo also supplied the fire detection and firefighting as well as the plant room air conditioning system, electrical equipment and control system.
The Moa plant runs on HFO supplied via barges to two bulk tanks located at the city's port which is 12km from the power plant. HFO is then transferred through a pipeline to the power plant tank farm. In this plant, two cooling towers per engine together with heat exchangers make up the engine cooling system.
(Originally published in MPS February 2016)
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