Coal-Fired Power Plants in South Korea

Gumi Location: Gyeongsangbuk-do Operator: STX Energy Configuration: 1 X 85 MW CHP Fuel: bituminous coal, oil Operation: 1992 Boiler supplier: Hanjung T/G supplier: Hanjung EPC: Samwhan Quick facts: The Gumi plant was licensed in Jan 1987 and construction started a year later. Photograph courtesy of Samwhan Corp Posted 29 Jan 2005	Hadong Location: Gyeongsangnam-do Operator: Korea Southern Power Co Configuration: 6 X 500 MW Fuel: bituminous coal Operation: 1997-2001 Boiler supplier: ABB, Doosan T/G supplier: Doosan Quick facts: This $4bn plant is fueled by imported bituminous coal and equipped with FGD scrubbers and other advanced air pollution control equipment. The units are constructed to the Korea Standard Coal Power Plant design with supercritical boilers. Doosan is building two additional 500-MW units. Photograph courtesy of Korea Electric Power Co Posted 17 Mar 2001	Poryong Location: Chungcheongnam-do Operator: Korean Midland Power Co Configuration: 6 X 500 MW Fuel: bituminous coal Operation: 1983-1994 Boiler supplier: B&W, CE, Doosan T/G supplier: Toshiba, GE, Doosan Quick facts:  Units 3-6 are the first of Korea's  standardized 500-MW supercritical coal-fired units. MHI retrofit FGD scrubbers on the four newer units in the late 1990s. Photograph courtesy of Korea Electric Power Co Posted 23 Jan 2002
Tonghae Location: Gangwon-do Operator: Korean East-West Power Co Configuration: 2 X 220 MW Fuel: anthracite coal Operation: 1998-1999 Boiler supplier: ABB T/G supplier: Doosan EPC: Black & Veatch, Kopec, Hanjung Quick facts: The plant has two 220-MW units with ACFB boilers designed for local anthracite, the largest such units in the country. Construction started in early 1993 and Unit-1 went commercial in Oct 1998. Fuel burn is about 1.2mn tpy. Photograph courtesy of Korea Electric Power Co Posted 4 May 2002	Yongdong Location: Gangwon-do Operator: Korean South-East Power Co Configuration: 1 X 125 MW, 1 X 200 MW Fuel: anthracite coal Operation: 1973-1979 Boiler supplier: Babcock-Hitachi T/G supplier: Hitachi Photograph courtesy of Korea South-East Power Co Posted 30 Jul 2004	Yonghungdo Location: Incheon-gwangyoksi Operator: Korean South-East Power Co Configuration: 2 X 800 MW Fuel: bituminous coal Operation: 2004 Boiler supplier: Alstom, Doosan T/G supplier: GE, Doosan EPC: Korea Power Engineering, Hyundai, Doosan, DongAh Quick facts: The supercritical plant has ESPs, a wet limestone FGD, and SCR. It cost $850/kW making it the least-cost coal-fired plant in the country. The integrated control system is based on the Emerson Process Management open-architecture Ovation software.  As the country's most modern coal-fired plant, Yonghungdo was named a 2005 Top Plant by Power magazine. Two 870-MW units are under construction at the site. Photograph courtesy of Korea Power Engineering Co Posted 6 Feb 2005
	Yosu Location: Chollanam-do Operator: Korean South-East Power Co Configuration: 1 X 200 MW, 1 X 330 MW Fuel: bituminous coal, oil Operation: 1975-1977 Boiler supplier: Stein, Babcock Power T/G supplier: Tosi, Marelli, MHI Photograph courtesy of Korea South-East Power Co Posted 30 Jul 2004

Abbreviations: ABB = Asea Brown Boveri, ACFB = atmospheric fluidized bed,  B&W = Babcock & Wilcox, CE = Combustion Engineering, CHP = combined heat and power, GE = General Electric, Kopec = Korea Power Engineering Co, LG E&C = LG Engineering & Construction, MHI = Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, T/G = turbine generator, tpy = tons per year

Data: industcards, Platts UDI World Electric Power Plants Data Base

Updated 06/30/07

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