Genloop buys Siemens V94.2 gas turbines and their Ansaldo AE94.2 equivalents as principal, and handles the removal and export.
The Siemens V94.2, now designated SGT5-2000E, is a heavy-frame E-class gas turbine introduced in 1981 and built under license by Ansaldo Energia as the AE94.2. Older units are rated at roughly 150 to 168 MW in simple cycle and current ones at 187 MW or more. It has a 16-stage compressor, a four-stage turbine and two external silo combustion chambers, and it turns at 3,000 rpm for 50 Hz grids.
Two V94.2s of the same vintage can be far apart in price. These are the reasons.
Equivalent operating hours since the last hot gas path inspection and the last major. The interval on the early V94.2 was 33,000 equivalent hours, and Siemens has offered 41,000 since 2001.
Si3D blades and vanes, the compressor upgrade, wet compression and clearance optimization each add output, and about half the fleet has Si3D. A buyer asks which of them your unit has.
Rotor discs become candidates for retirement as a unit approaches 200,000 equivalent hours. A buyer asks how far yours has run and what has been replaced.
The V94.2 was sold on its fuel range: heavy and crude oils, and low-calorific and sour gases. What a unit burned sets how hard its hot section has worked.
Siemens Energy and Ansaldo Energia both build and support the frame, and independent firms supply parts and upgrades for it. A frame with that much support behind it is easier to place.
A V94.2 usually crosses a border to reach its next site. Port access, the heavy-haul route and the export paperwork all come off what a buyer can pay.
Siemens counts about 315 units sold and more than 270 built under license. A relocated one goes where a 50 Hz grid needs 150 MW or more sooner than a new machine can arrive.
Utility and independent plants on grids that are short of firm power.
One or two units with a steam turbine, at about 290 or 580 MW a block.
Projects that burn crude, heavy oil or low-calorific gas, where the silo combustors are the reason it is chosen.
Europe, Africa, most of Asia and Australia run at 50 Hz.
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, which upgrades are fitted, the state of the rotor, what fuel it burned, whether it sells as a complete generating set, 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. The AE94.2 is the same frame built under license by Ansaldo Energia, and SGT5-2000E is the current Siemens name for the V94.2. Genloop buys all of them.
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 V94.2 as a complete generating set, with its generator, auxiliaries, controls and step-up transformer, or as a combined cycle block with the HRSG and steam turbine, bought whole and relocated whole.
No. The V94.2 turns at 3,000 rpm and makes 50 Hz, and it cannot be economically converted. The 60 Hz sibling is the V84.2. A V94.2’s buyers are in 50 Hz markets: Europe, Africa, most of Asia and Australia.
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.
Siemens or Ansaldo build, version, serial number, rating, and what is included: generator, transformer, HRSG, balance of plant.
Equivalent operating hours, starts and trips, and the duty the unit ran.
The last minor, hot gas path and major inspections, with dates and open findings. Gaps are normal; say where they are.
Which upgrades are fitted, the fuels burned and for how long, and the control system.
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.