Korea Midland Power Co. (KOMIPO) has become the first Korean power company to log no shutdowns for 6,000 consecutive days for its thermal power plant. The Boryung Thermal Power Unit 3 set a world record for no shutdowns for 6,000 days of operation at 2:56 p.m. on Sept. 27. The plant achieved the feat 17 years and 10 months after Dec. 17, 1998. The plant received a certificate of no shutdowns for 5,000 days from the U.S. World Record Academy, one of the world’s top three world record certification institutions last December. The Boryung Thermal Power Unit 3 is a homegrown 500,000kW coal-fired standard model, whose technology has been applied to 20 more thermal power units. The Cirebon coal-fired plant in Indonesia is the standard model technology exported by KOMIPO.
Operation crews at the Boryung Thermal Power Unit managed to achieve the feat of logging no shutdowns for 6,000 straight days thanks to the “profound” technology capabilities they have accumulated while undergoing long-term educational programs and facility improvement experiences, a KOMIPO official said.
There are many other units in operation without no shutdowns on top of the Boryung Thermal Power Unit. They include the Boryung Thermal Power Unit 6 and 7, which each have a record of no shutdowns for 1,500 days, the Boryung Combined Cycle Gas Turbine Unit 6 with a record of no shutdowns for 1,400 days, and the Seocheon and Jeu thermal power plants, which each hold a record of no shutdowns for 1,000 days.
KOMIPO President Chung Chang-kil said, “We will not rest on laurels of the Boryung Thermal Power Unit achieving the feat of no shutdowns for 6,000 days, and we will devote ourselves to being recognized as a world-class energy public entity by ensuring a stable supply of electricity based on technology innovation and eco-friendly management and maintaining leadership in the energy industry.” KOMIPO is hitting the accelerator to explore markets. The power company chalked up 20.5 billion won in overseas business revenues last year by exporting a succession of plant construction and operation technology.
Starting with the Cirebon thermal plant construction and operation project, KOMIPO is implementing several overseas coal-fired plant projects, including undertaking the O&M (operation and maintenance) 1,320-MW Tanjung Jati Coal-Fired Power Plant, also in Indonesia, and the operation of Thailand's 110-MW Navanakorn Combined Cycle Power Plant. The Korean power company is supplying about 7 percent of a combined electricity supply to Java Island, Indonesia, which is grappling with a shortage of electricity. KOMIPO is expected to reap a combined 600 billion won in net profit, 20 billion won in annual operation revenues for 30 years, by operating power plants in Indonesia.
KOMIPO is faring well in overseas new and renewable energy sectors, including hydroelectric power and wind power. KOMIPO has become the first Korean power company to export hydroelectric power plant technology. The power company dedicated the Wampu Hydro Electric Power Plant (three units each with a capacity of 45MW) and put it into commercial operation this past April. KOMIPO is expected to reap 100 billion won in revenues from the operation of the plant for 30 years. KOMIPO will complete the Semanka hydroelectric power plant project and put it into commercial operation next year. The plant will have two units, each with a capacity of 55.4MW.
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Executives of Korea Midland Power Co. (KOMIPO) participate in a ceremony to commemorate the Boryung Thermal Power Unit 3’s setting of a world record of no shutdowns for 6,000 days of operation on a continued. (Photos: KOMIPO)
KOMIPO Recycles Power Plant Byproducts into New Energy Sources
KOMIPO is accelerating efforts to enhance energy efficiency and raise competitiveness in the agriculture and fisheries sectors, in keeping with the Post-2020 Climate Change Regime. In particular, KOMIPO is stepping on the gas to cultivate new energy industries, utilizing byproducts of electricity generation. Power plant byproducts refer to hot water waste, fly ashes, and carbon dioxide. Hot waste water from power plants has been recognized as a new and renewable energy source in accordance with the revised enforcement degrees of the act on the development, utilization and spread of new and renewable energies, as well as recycled energies, made in March 2015.
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