Suralaya Generation Business Unit

Suralaya Generation Business Unit at A Glance

The Suralaya Generation Business Unit (GBU) is one of the PT Indonesia

Power's generating stations. It is the largest coal fired station in
Indonesia.

Suralaya GBU has built 7 (seven) coal fired steam powerplant unit in
three phases.

1st phase= 2 Units has operating at 1984

2nd phase= 2 Units has operating at 1989
3rd phase= 3 Units has operating at 1997

Suralaya GBU has been built on 239 hectare area that consist of 116 hectare for
Central Building, Ashvalley, and official housing, and the rest is forests for producing
fresh air.

With its 3.400 MW installed capacity, Suralaya GBU has a key role as prime over the
development, science achievement and education.
Suralaya GBU Machine

Machine Installed Capacity

Suralaya #1 SPP 400 MW
Suralaya #2 SPP 400 MW
Suralaya #3 SPP 400 MW
Suralaya #4 SPP 400 MW
Suralaya #5 SPP 600 MW
Suralaya #6 SPP 600 MW
Suralaya #7 SPP 600 MW
 

Address

Suralaya Generation Business Unit

Jl. Komplek PLTU Suralaya, Serang, Merak 42456, Indonesia
Tel. (62-254) 571230, 571240, 571243, 571242 fax. (62-254) 571235

Electricity Production at Suralaya Generation Business Unit

The coal is unloaded from the ships at the Coal Jetty and scooped up by the Stacker
Reclaimer (1) and then transferred by conveyors to the temporary stock through
Telescopic Chute (2). Thereafter the coal will be sent to the Steam Generator. Following
that, the coal is transferred through the Junction House (3) to the Scrapper Conveyor (4)
and then to the Coal Bunker (5). Afterwards, the coal is channeled to the Coal Feeder (6)
which controls the flow of coal into the Pulverizer (7) where the coal is pulverized into
fine powder, which is picked up by a powerful stream of hot air from the Primary Air Fan
(8) and then carried to the Coal Burner (9) which blows the coal into the Combustion
Rooms, and burns like gas to convert water into steam. The hot air used by the Primary Air
Fan is supplied by the Forced Draught Fan (10) which draws the hot air from the upper
part of the Boiler House and passes it through the Air Heater (11). The F.D. Fan also
supplies air to the Coal Burner to support the combustion process. The results of the
combustion process consist of ashes residue in a ratio of 14 : 1. The ashes, which drop to
the bottom of the boilers, are periodically taken our and stored. The residue gases from the
burning process are sucked out from the boiler by the I.D. Fan (12) via the Electrostatic
Precipitator (13) which absorbs 99,5% of the flying dust and ashes with a high powered
electrode system, and blow them up to the Stack (14). The ashes and dust are then
collected and taken by a Pneumatic Gravity Conveyor to be used as material for the
production of road, elements of cement and building blocks (batako, conblock). The heat
released by the burning fuel is absorbed by waterwalls of the boiler to be turned into
saturated steam and further it is heated in the Superheater (15), which is then chaneled into
the High Pressure Turbine (16) where it is discharged through nozzles onto the turbine
blades. The force of the steam striking the blades makes the turbine rotate. After passing
this High Pressure Turbine, the steam is returned to the boiler for reheating in the Reheater
(17) before being applied to the Intermediate Pressure Turbine (18) and the Low Pressure
Turbine (19). Meanwhile, the exhausted steam is turned back into water in the Condenser
(23) by using Sea Water (26) supplied by C.W. Pump (32). The condensate water is then to
be used again later in the boiler. The water is pumped away from the condenser with a
Condensate Extraction Pump (24) heated in the L.P. Heater (25) and up to the Deaerator
(27) - a heated storage tank - then pumped by the Boiler Feed Pump (28) through the H.P.
Heater (29) where it is further heated before entering the boiler at the Economizer (30)
then the water enters the Steam Drum (31). The L.P. Turbine shaft is coupled to the
Generator (20) - a large electromagnetic cylinder _ so that when the turbine rotates the
rotor rotates with it. The generator rotor is enclosed in the Stator (21). The stator is wound
using internally cooled copper bars. Electricity is produced in the stator's copper bars by
the electromagnet in the rotor through the rotation of the magnetic field. The electric
voltage of 23 KV is then increased to 500,000 Volt by the Generator Transformer (22).