Puerto Coronel (Bocamina II) (Chile) - 1x1215 t/h

Project of new 1×370 MWe unit construction with dry bottom furnace boiler in the exiting Bocamina Power Plant in Puerto Coronel (Chile).

Project Data:  
Client: Endesa S.A., Santa Rosa, Santiago
Operator: Endesa S.A.
Location: Puerto Coronel, VIII. Region
Country: Chile
Contract: 07/2007
Handing-over: 06/2010
Suppliers – Members of Consortium:  
Head of consortium: MAIREENGINEERING S.p.A. Torino (Italy)
Technical leader of consortium: MAIREENGINEERING S.p.A. Torino (Italy)
Supplier of boiler house: SES a.s. Tlmače (Slovakia)
Supplier of turbine hall: MAIREENGINEERING S.p.A. Torino (Italy)
Supplier of turbo-generator: General Electric (USA) 
Technical Parameters:  
Maximal continuous rate: 1215 t/h
Superheated steam pressure: 17,2 MPa
Superheated steam temperature: 541 °C
Nominal temperature of feed water: 292 °C
Inlet pressure of reheated steam: 4,45 MPa
Outlet pressure of reheated steam: 4,25 MPa
Inlet temperature of reheated steam: 347 °C
Outlet temperature of reheated steam: 541 °C
Fuel: bituminous coal
Lower calorific value: 23,96 – 28,89 MJ/kg

Boiler Design

  • Double-pass boiler with forced circulation (with circulating pumps) and dry bottom furnace and balanced pass.

Combustion Equipment of Boiler

  • Combustion equipment of the boiler consists of four middle-run mills and 16 swirler low-NOx pulverized fuel burners situated in the front wall of the boiler. Combustion air is heated in two triple-section regenerative air heater of Ljungström type.