Genloop buys GE LM2500 packages and TM2500 mobile units as principal, running, idle or mothballed, and handles the removal.
The GE LM2500 is an aeroderivative gas turbine with the CF6-6 aircraft engine at its core, rated from about 22 MW for the base engine to about 37 MW for the newest. The TM2500 is the same engine on trailers: a mobile power plant that GE says installs in about two weeks. The standard power turbine is direct drive, at 3,600 rpm for 60 Hz or 3,000 rpm for 50 Hz.
As with any aeroderivative, the engine and the package are valued separately, and each has its own history.
The base LM2500, the LM2500+, the +G4 and the +G5 are rated at about 22.6, 30.5, 32.5 and 32.9 MW at 50 Hz. The generation sets the rating, and the rating sets the starting point.
The engine’s hours since its last hot section and its last overhaul. The intervals are about 25,000 fired hours to the hot section and about 50,000 to the overhaul, adjusted on condition and roughly halved on liquid fuel.
Which depot did the last hot section or overhaul, and what was replaced. The engine can be exchanged on site in two to three days, so the engine in the package today may not be the one it was delivered with.
A TM2500 is built to move. The first generation came on four trailers and later ones on fewer. A buyer checks that the trailers, the auxiliaries and the interconnecting equipment are all still with the unit.
A standard combustor with water injection, or dry low emissions with no water. Gas, distillate or dual fuel. A dual fuel unit has more places it can go.
The standard power turbine runs at either speed without a gearbox, and GE describes the TM2500 as easily converted between 50 and 60 Hz. Genloop will take one across frequencies, with the conversion priced in.
Fast-start and mobile units go where power is needed before anything permanent can be built.
TM2500s have been sent to Ukraine and to California to cover shortfalls at short notice.
Aeroderivatives are moving from backup duty to primary power for large data centers.
Cogeneration and site power where a block of 20 to 35 MW fits the load.
Direct drive at 50 or 60 Hz, which widens where a unit can go.
The short answers. The detail is in the contract, and in the call that comes before it.
It depends on the engine generation, the engine’s hours since its last hot section and overhaul, which depot did the work, the fuel it ran on, how complete the package is, and its records. 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 TM2500 mobile units and fixed LM2500 packages, running, idle or mothballed.
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.
Yes. The standard LM2500 power turbine is direct drive at 3,600 rpm for 60 Hz or 3,000 rpm for 50 Hz, and GE describes the TM2500 as easily converted between the two. Genloop will take one across frequencies, with the conversion priced in.
The engine model and serial number, fired hours and starts in total and since the last hot section and overhaul, the depot reports for each shop visit, the fuels burned, and what is included in the package. Gaps are normal and Genloop fills them on site.
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.
LM2500, LM2500+, +G4 or +G5; for a mobile unit, which TM2500 generation. Engine and package serial numbers, fuel, and what is included.
Fired hours and starts on the engine now installed, in total and since its last hot section and overhaul.
Depot reports for each hot section, overhaul or repair, and any lease or exchange engines that have run in the package.
Gas, distillate or dual fuel, the hours run on each, and water injection or dry low emissions.
The window in which the equipment must be gone and any export or permit requirements. For a TM2500, whether it is still on its trailers and where it is parked.
Who owns the package and who owns the engine, which are not always the same party, and what has to be released at closing.