Diesel and Gas-Engine Power Plants in Italy

Centro Citta Location: VR Operator: AGSM Verona Configuration: 5 X 2.315 MW CHP KVGS12-G3 engines Fuel: natural gas Operation: 2001 E/G supplier: Bergen Quick facts: These engines replaced gensets installed in the late 1980s. Photograph courtesy of Rolls-Royce Posted 26 Feb 2005	Cereal Docks Location: VI Operator: Cereal Docks SpA Configuration: 2 X 2.6-MW 9L27/38 engines CHP Fuel: palm oil Operation: 2008 E/G supplier: MAN Diesel SE EPC: Termoindustriale SpA Quick facts: This tri-generation plant is at Camisano Vicentino, roughly midway between Padua and Vicenza and operates in grid-parallel baseload mode. Cereal Docks is an animal-feed company and uses about 5.2 MW of recovered heat in the form of 12bar steam for the production of bio-diesel at an adjacent factory run by a sister company. Photograph courtesy of MAN Diesel SE Posted 29 Jul 2008	Famagosta Location: MI Operator: A2A SpA Configuration: 6 X 3.2 MW CHP Operation: 2001 Fuel: natural gas E/G supplier: ?? Quick facts: This is a key component of the DHS system in southern Milano and runs a 10km system serving 170 buildings. The plant is located at Piazza Maggi along the main Milano-Genoa highway. Photograph courtesy of A2A SpA Posted 8 Aug 2009
Giugliano Location: NA Operator: Gesen SpA Configuration: 4 X 1.06 MW, 1 X 3 MW KB-5 gas turbine Operation: 2003 Fuel: landfill gas T/G supplier: Jenbacher, Allison, Centrax EPC: TME Quick Facts: The thermal component of this power plant uses landfill gas from the Masseria del Pozzo and Schiavi landfills in Giugliano. TME built the plant for Gesen and ran the plant for the first 3yrs. An 80-kW PV plant completes the installation. Photograph courtesy of TME Termomeccanica Ecologia Posted 24 May 2009	Linate Airport Location: MI Operator: Malpensa Energia srl Configuration: 3 X 8 MW 20V34SG engines CHP Operation: 2007 Fuel: natural gas E/G supplier: Wartsila EPC: Wartsila, Commissioning Italia, EuroPower, Elettrogorizia Quick facts: Malpensa Energia is owned by the Milan airport management company SEA Aeroporti Milano and AEM Milano. Thebaseload plant is inside the airport and has three gas gensets and ancillary equipment, exhaust heat recovery economizers and two gas-fired boilers. Heat output is 82 MWth in winter and 72 MWth in summer. Hot water at 125°C and 70°C is delivered to airport buildings and also to a nearby village while electricity is delivered to the grid. Normally, the generating sets run in parallel with the grid but they also serve as emergency sets to maintain airport services if required. Photograph courtesy of Wartsila Posted 10 Oct 2007	Lodi Location: CR Operator: Astem SpA Configuration: 1 X 3.8 MW CHP Fuel: natural gas Operation: 2005 E/G supplier: Caterpillar Quick facts: Development of the Lodi cogen plant started in 1998 and a feasibility study was completed in 2002. The plant was originally designed to serve the Università degli Studi di Milano, but the scope was expanded to supply the local DHS. Construction lasted from Oct 2003 to Sep 2005. Heating capacity is 26 MWt, which is supplied to Lodi's 14km district heating system. The Lodi plant accounts for about 40% of the city heating demand. Photograph courtesy of Linea Group Holding Posted 9 May 2009
Monopoli Location: BA Operator: ItalGreen Energy Configuration: 3 X 8 MW 18V32 engines Operation: 2004-2005 Fuel: liquid biofuel E/G supplier: Wartsila EPC: Wartsila Quick facts: This baseload power station  is located inside a vegetable oil production plant of Casa Olearia Italiana Group and is one of the largest liquid biofuel power plants in the world. Photograph courtesy of Wartsila Posted 13 Jan 2002	Torrente Location: CB Operator: Agip SpA Configuration: 8 X 2.7-MW KVGS16G2 engines Operation: 1998 Fuel: wellhead gas, process gas T/G supplier: Bergen EPC: Cefla Quick facts: This small power station was built at Agip’s mineral oil center Torrente Tona di Rotello in Campobasso. Mineral oil is extracted for use in refining processes, but extraction leads to production of well gas, a mixture of natural gas, other gases, water vapor, and associated materials. Traditionally, this waste gas was flared, but the Torrente plant was built to burn the material along with process gas from mineral oil processing. Power is sold to the grid. Photograph courtesy of Cefla Posted 25 May 2009	Wyeth Catania Location: CT Operator: Wyeth-Lederle SpA Configuration: 2 X 2.7-MW KVGS16G2 engines CHP Operation: 1999 Fuel: natural gas T/G supplier: Bergen EPC: Cefla Quick facts: This is a trigeneration captive power plant at a pharmaceutical factory making antibiotics for global export. Photograph courtesy of Cefla Posted 25 May 2009

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