3 September 2019

General Electric celebrates 25 years of successful operation of 6F family (6F.03, Frame 6FA, PG6111FA) gas turbines in the global power market. Currently, the fleet of these turbines is more than 200 units operating at various facilities in more than 40 countries. Over 7 million operating hours and 75 thousand launches prove the high reliability of this GE gas turbine technology.

"The flexibility, reliability and efficiency of 6F turbines make them one of the key products in our portfolio of gas turbine equipment. These units are successfully used in various fields of power industry and provide the high performance expected by our customers", said Martin O’Neill, Director of Product Management of GE Power. "We are pleased to celebrate this significant event together with our customers, who have trusted 6F turbines to solve their energy problems for the past quarter century and look forward to their continued successful operation".

Units of 6F series are capable of operating on various types of natural gas, distillate and synthetic fuel. They are also characterized by high effectiveness: these turbines generate up to 87 MW of capacity in a simple cycle and provide efficiency of more than 57% in a combined cycle.

To date, more than 20 units of the 6F family have been successfully operating in Russia at power generating units with a total capacity of about 2 GW. Since 2014, the production of GTU of type 6F.03 with a capacity of about 80 MW has been localized at the Russian Gas Turbines LLC plant, a joint venture that GE owns on a parity basis with Inter RAO PJSC.

The company produces, sells and provides service support for these turbines, which are now the most efficient and in demand in the 6F series. Localized GTUs with a total capacity of almost 800 MW were installed at new power plants in the Kaliningrad Region, where they ensure the energy safety of the region.

To our country GE gas turbine units of 6F series have been suppling since 2010. The first units went to power plants upgraded as part of the Diadem investment program of the T Plus Group (formerly IES Holding). Two GTU of type PG6111FA with a capacity of 80 MW each formed the basis of the combined cycle gas turbine unit of the Syzran CHPP – CCGT-225 MW. Three more PG6111FA gas turbine units were included in the new power generating unit of Novokuybyshevsk CHPP-1 – GTU-231 MW. After commissioning, these facilities were among the most efficient and technologically advanced facilities of a new generating in the Middle Volga.



The important factor in achieving the design efficiency, reliable operation and full running out of the generating equipment operational life is the quality treatment of fuel gas. Thus, for example, in Syzran and Novokuybyshevsk, fuel feeding to the PG6111FA turbines is carried out by ENERGAS systems which composed of gas treatment stations (GTS) and booster compressor stations (BCS).

Also the comprehensive gas treatment system of ENERGAS (multipackage GTS and BCS of 4 compressor units) provides fuel to the largest facility of the new Kaliningrad generating – Pregolskaya TPP, where the basis of combined-cycle power units consists of four 6F.03 turbines with a capacity of 77.9 MW each.



Totally, in the asset of ENERGAS Group there are 20 projects from Belarus to Sakhalin within frameworks of which 56 process units treat the gas for the 42 General Electric gas turbine units of various models and capacity.

REFERENCE. ENERGAS Group of Companies is recognized leader in gas treatment. Today, 209 BCS and GTS of ENERGAS supply 186 power units (with total electrical capacity of 6.26 GW) of leading Russian and foreign manufacturers with fuel.

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