Genloop buys steam turbine generators from retired plants, combined cycle blocks and process sites as principal, and handles the removal.
A steam turbine is designed around its steam: the inlet pressure and temperature, the exhaust pressure and the flow. That makes a used one harder to place than a gas turbine, and it is why the data sheet matters more than the nameplate. Genloop buys condensing and back-pressure units from retirements, repowering and process sites, with or without the steam source.
A steam turbine has to fit a steam source before it is worth anything to a buyer. These are the things that decide whether it does.
Inlet pressure and temperature, exhaust pressure and flow. A relocated turbine has to be matched to a boiler or an HRSG that can supply what it was designed for, and the closer the match the wider the market.
Condensing, back-pressure or extraction, and reheat or non-reheat. Each suits a different kind of plant, and a reheat machine needs a steam source built for reheat.
Makers long recommended opening a steam turbine about every five years, and some now go as far as 100,000 equivalent hours between full overhauls. A buyer asks when the casing was last open and what was found.
High-temperature rotors creep, casings crack with starts and stops, and the last rows of low-pressure blades erode in wet steam. These are what an inspection looks at, and what the last overhaul report should show.
Sold with the turbine in almost every case, and with a clock of its own: generator windings are designed for about 30 years. Recent electrical tests are worth having.
The condenser, gearbox, oil systems, valves, controls and step-up transformer. A turbine sold with its condenser and auxiliaries is a set a buyer can install. Controls more than about 20 years old are priced as a replacement.
A used steam turbine competes on fit and on time. One taken from a mothballed plant in Maine was rebuilt into a 40 MW biomass plant in Michigan in about eight months.
A steam turbine and HRSG added behind gas turbines that were running in simple cycle.
Back-pressure and extraction units for sites that need process steam as well as power.
Condensing units behind a boiler that burns wood, waste or residues.
Boilers and steam turbines are being ordered for data centers while gas turbines are sold out.
The short answers. The detail is in the contract, and in the call that comes before it.
It depends on how well its steam conditions fit a buyer’s plant, its type and rating, the time since its last major overhaul, the condition of the rotor, blades and casings, the generator, and what is sold with it. 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, if its steam conditions can be matched. The work is in fitting the turbine to a boiler or HRSG that can supply the pressure, temperature and flow it was designed for. Genloop’s engineers make that assessment before an offer.
Yes. Genloop buys steam turbines with or without the steam source.
Units from 15 MW, condensing or back-pressure, from retirements, repowering and process sites.
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.
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.
Maker, model, rating, speed, inlet and exhaust steam conditions, extraction points, and reheat or non-reheat.
Hours and starts, and the duty the unit ran: base load, cycling, two-shifting.
The last major inspection, with the rotor, blade and casing findings and what was repaired or replaced.
Generator rating and any electrical test results, and what is included: condenser, gearbox, valves, oil systems, controls, transformer.
The window in which the equipment must be gone, crane and road access, and any export or permit requirements.
Who owns the equipment, and what has to be released at closing.