Peterborough firm steams ahead down under
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UK Trade and Investment product story
Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team
Sep 28, 2004
Peterborough engineering company Peter Brotherhood has won a contract to supply a GBP 3 million steam turbine and cooling tower for a green power plant in Australia, thanks to UK Trade and Investment.
Peterborough engineering company Peter Brotherhood has won a contract to supply a GBP 3 million steam turbine and cooling tower for a green power plant in Australia, thanks to UK Trade and Investment, the Government organisation that provides support services for UK companies trading overseas.
Peter Brotherhood will provide a major piece of the infrastructure for the innovative Ergon Energy plant being built in Queensland and set for completion in May 2006.
The contract is the result of UK Trade and Investment introducing the two companies in 2001.
Ray Bowell, General Manager of Steam Turbine Sales said: "We have been producing turbo alternator sets for the sugar industry for over 50 years and have over 500 machines installed worldwide".
"We have similar turbo alternator sets running in Fiji, South Africa, Vietnam, Kenya and Zimbabwe".
"UK Trade and Investment's assistance was invaluable in helping us to capitalise on our extensive experience in the cane sugar industry to win this contract".
Peter Brotherhood will design and manufacture the turbo alternator set that comprises a multistage steam turbine and a gearbox, mounted on a common bedplate.
The complete unit will then be tested on steam at the plant in Peterborough prior to delivery to the Australian plant in 2005.
Creating up to 100 jobs, the GBP 9 million Ergon Energy plant will be built at the Isis Central Sugar Mill in Queensland.
Running on sugar cane residue, it will supply enough clean, green energy to power 7000 homes a year.
It will help reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 50,000 tonnes every year - the equivalent of taking more than 10,000 cars off the road.
The power plant will raise steam efficiently by burning bagasse (the waste product that remains after processing sugar cane) which is in turn passed through the extraction condensing turbo alternator set, supplied by Peter Brotherhood, to provide power and process steam.
It is also environmentally friendly.
With the emitted CO2 absorbed by the growing sugar cane crop it does not add to the global greenhouse effect.
Around 65,000MW a year will be generated to help meet demand in the Bundaberg region.
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