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6/23/2016

Doosan Group Presents its Power Solutions in Ankara

Circulating Fluidized Bed (CFB) technology of German Doosan Lentjes was introduced at the Conference held by Doosan Heavy Industries



Metin Oktay, Managing Director of the Turkish Office of Doosan Heavy Industries said “What we offer is the pulverized boiler technology from UK, steam turbines from Czech Republic and Korea, as we as CFB, air pollution, and waste-to-energy technologies from Germany.”

Doosan Heavy Industries, which is one of the giant engineering and contracting groups of Korea, and opened an office in Istanbul in 2014, held a conference in Ankara on June 22, 2016. While information was provided on Doosan Group during the conference, the afternoon sessions focused on the detailed introduction of the Circulating FluidiSed bed (CFB) boiler technology developed by German Doosan Lentjies.

Metin Oktay, General Manager – Doosan, Turkey: “What we offer is the pulverized boiler technology from UK, steam turbines from Czech Republic and Korea, as well as CFB, air pollution, and waste-to-energy technologies from Germany.”

Metin Oktay, Managing Director of the Turkish Office of Doosan, offered general information on Doosan group. He said that Doosan Group was established in 1896 and its energy business date back to 1960 in Korea.  After privatization in 2001, the company continued its operations under the title of Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction. He continued with company’s primary fields of operation in the energy sector: production of PC & CFB boilers, turbines-generators, engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) works, nuclear energy, and water/waste water treatment & desalination, as well as casting & forging.

Stating that the Doosan Group acquired Mitsui Babcock in United Kingdom in 2006, Oktay added that Doosan also acquired  Czech Skoda Power in 2009 and German Lentjes in 2011, which is why, according to Oktay, they are able to offer the English technology in pulverized boilers, Czech technology in turbines and German technology in the fluidized bed boilers. He underlined that the turnover of the energy section of Doosan Heavy Industries was 13.6 million USD.

Damian Goral, CFB Product Manager, Doosan Lentjes

At the conference held by Doosan, Damian Goral, Circulating Fluidized Boilers Group Manager, gave information on the technologies of Doosan Lentjes. Referring to the operation of Doosan Lentjes under three main product group, he listed them as CFB’s, air pollution control technologies (FGDs) and energy from waste. Emphasizing that they have more than 110 references in the global market for circulating fluidized bed boilers in particular, Goral mentioned that they can offer fluidized bed boilers up to the capacity of 300 MW per unit.

Selahattin Hakman, Member of the Board, Garanti Koza Construction

Member of the Board, Garanti Koza, also delivered a presentation on the requirements of the energy sector in Turkey. Looking from the perspective of power supply security, Hakman underlined the formation of a serious reserve capacity and the presence of a supply surplus. He added that the demand for electricity in Turkey still continues to increase by 4% and expressed his concerns for future, saying that there will be supply security danger again in 2020, if the necessary investments are not made now.

Hakman also pointed out that the government needs to support the investments in the energy sector without interrupting the mechanisms of the market. Stating that each coal requires a severe amount of engineering work in every field in Turkey, Hakman argued that lignite stations which are composed of components which are technically difficult, but to need to be interoperated, should be treated with an integrated approach combining engineering and project management activities.

Prof. Nevin Selçuk, Department of Chemical Engineering: “We need to build import coal power stations at such a time when import coal is cheap and save our own lignite for ourselves for future use.”

Prof. Nevin Selçuk, an expert in combustion technologies, from the Department of Chemical Engineering of METU, delivered a speech during the conference. In her speech, she mentioned that the lignite in Turkey is a difficult one; each lignite type is different from each other and requires special treatment and that the technology which is the most appropriate one for the lignite in Turkey is the fluidized bed boiler technology. She pointed out that the government has just adopted this approach, although she had been recommending governments to invest on national lignite for year now. However she warned that this is not the right time to do it.

She continued to explain that at a time when import coal is cheaper than ever, import coal power stations should be built in Turkey and the lignite reserves need to be saved for future use of the country.