Genloop buys GE 9E gas turbines as principal, running, idle or mothballed, and handles the removal and export.
The GE 9E, or Frame 9E, is a heavy-frame E-class gas turbine introduced in 1978 at 105 MW. The current 9E.03 is rated at 132 MW in simple cycle and the 9E.04 at 147 MW. It is direct drive at 3,000 rpm, so it serves 50 Hz grids and cannot be economically converted to 60 Hz.
Two 9Es with the same nameplate and the same total hours can be far apart in price. These are the reasons.
Hours and starts since the last hot gas path inspection and the last major, not total hours. The baseline hot gas path interval on a 9E is 24,000 factored hours or 900 factored starts, and GE’s upgraded hardware holds 32,000 hours.
GE counts more than 50 fuels the 9E can burn, from natural gas to crude and residual oil, and many units ran on liquids. Liquid fuel uses up inspection interval faster than gas, so a buyer reads the fuel history before the hour meter.
GE’s rotor inspection limit for its E-class machines is 200,000 factored hours or 5,000 factored starts. A unit well inside it is a different asset from one that is near it.
Standard combustors, or dry low NOx as DLN 1 and DLN 1+. A dry low NOx unit can meet a tighter permit. A standard unit needs a retrofit or a site that can permit it, and both narrow the buyer pool.
A turbine sold with its generator, auxiliaries, controls and step-up transformer is a plant a buyer can install. A bare turbine is a component that needs everything else sourced, matched and commissioned.
A 9E usually crosses a border to reach its next site, and one in a 60 Hz country always does. Port access, the heavy-haul route and the export paperwork all come off what a buyer can pay.
GE counts more than 730 9E units deployed, half of them in the Middle East and Africa. A relocated one goes to the same 50 Hz markets.
Baseload and industrial power where firm capacity is short and a new machine is years out.
Utility and independent capacity on grids that are growing faster than new plants arrive.
Projects without pipeline gas, where the 9E’s fuel range is the reason it is chosen.
Refineries, smelters and process sites that need a large block on a fuel they already have.
The short answers. The detail is in the contract, and in the call that comes before it.
It depends on where the unit sits in its maintenance cycle, what fuel it burned, whether it sells as a complete generating set, its combustion system and controls, its records and its location. No public database records what used turbines actually sell for, so advertised prices are asking prices. Genloop makes a firm offer after its own engineers have inspected the unit.
Yes. Genloop buys units that are running, idle or mothballed. A unit that has been mothballed for several years is looked at case by case.
Either. Genloop buys a 9E as a complete generating set, with its generator, auxiliary skids, inlet and exhaust, controls and step-up transformer, or as a combined cycle block with the HRSG and steam turbine, bought whole and relocated whole.
No. The 9E is direct drive at 3,000 rpm and makes 50 Hz, and it cannot be economically converted. Its buyers are in 50 Hz markets: Europe, Africa, most of Asia and Australia.
Yes. It has to travel to a 50 Hz market, and the price reflects the export. Genloop handles the dismantling, the export compliance and the transport.
Genloop does. Dismantling, export compliance and transport are Genloop’s scope, insured throughout, and written into the same contract as the purchase. The site is handed back on the schedule the contract sets.
No. Genloop buys as principal and takes title, so there is no fee, no marketing period and no waiting for a buyer to appear.
Every enquiry is read by the people who inspect, value and buy the equipment, and answered directly. Owners rarely have everything; send what exists and Genloop fills the gaps on site.
Model and serial number, rating, and what is included: generator, transformer, HRSG, balance of plant.
Fired hours, starts and trips, and the duty the unit ran: base load, peaking, standby.
The last combustion, hot gas path and major inspections, with dates and open findings. Gaps are normal; say where they are.
The fuels burned and for how long, standard or dry low NOx combustors, and the controls generation.
The window in which the equipment must be gone, crane, road and port access, and any export or permit requirements.
Who owns the equipment, and what has to be released at closing.