Coal-fired boiler plant history for Malaysian projects

Abstract

Electricity demand in Southeast Asia, in particular Malaysia has been growing very steadily over the past two decades. IHI corporation (IHI) has been a key player in the supply of thermal power boilers to meet the power demands in the country. To cap our strong presence and experience, large scale coal-fired power boilers have been newly designed and constructed at Tanjung Bin Power Plant (3 units of 700MW boilers), which is the largest coal-fired Independent Power Plant in Southeast Asia. The boilers have been designed as coal firing units in order to meet the government policy in balancing energy resources through avoiding over-dependence on any particular energy resource. Coal resources are widely distributed throughout the world, especially in countries surrounding Malaysia which include Indonesia, Australia, China and South Africa. Tanjung Bin Power Plant is designed to burn either entirely bituminous coals or blended with up to 30% sub-bituminous coals. The 1st and 2nd units of Tanjung Bin Power Plant have successfully gone into commercial operation. With the 1st Unit completed 16 days ahead of the contractual schedule. This paper covers a brief history of thermal power plants in Malaysia and the technical features of Tanjung Bin Power Plant.