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Bilfinger BergerBilfinger Berger Magazine 1/2009

Piping systems technology improves coal combustion.
Piping systems technology improves coal combustion.

46 PERCENT EFFICIENCY LEVEL

Bilfinger Berger Power Services is to design, produce, build and commission the piping systems for two new blocks at the Westfalen coal-fired power plant in Hamm. The client is RWE Power AG and the order volume is €140 million.

The new blocks, each with a capacity of 800 megawatts, will achieve an efficiency rate of 46 percent. Commencing in 2011, they will replace two outdated 160 megawatt plants. The two new coal-fired blocks are the most modern of their kind.