EWP Completes Ultra-Super
Critical Thermal Power Units

Dedicates the Dangjin Thermal Power Units 5 & 6

Korea East West Power Co. (EWP) introduced Korea's first eco-friendly, high-efficient ultra-super critical coal-fired power plant units. A ceremony celebrating the dedication of Dangjin Thermal Power Units 5 & 6 was held at the Dangjin Thermal Power Complex in Dangjin, South Chungcheong Province on June 9 with dignitaries, including Minister of Commerce, Industry and Energy Chung Sye-kyun, KEPCO Chairman Han Joon-ho, and EWP President-CEO Lee Yong-oh and representatives from all walks of life, participating.
The newly dedicated units, each with capacity of 500,000 kW, are designed with an ultra-super critical one that can reduce bituminous coal consumption by 150,000 tons per annum compared to a super critical unit. The coal reduction means substituting bituminous coal, imported from foreign countries. The ultra-super critical units are energy efficient as steam temperature is raised from 539 degrees to 593 degrees and ultra-super critical pressure is heightened from 225.65 kg/cm2 to 246 kg/cm2.
The latest thermal power units reduce 800,000 tons of gas emission. The units are in a better position to obtain emission credits under the Kyodo Protocol of the United Nations Convention of Climate Change.
Dangjin Thermal Power Units 5 & 6 are outfitted with such eco-friendly equipment as desulfurization, denitrification and electric precipitation instruments, automatic gas emission measurement systems, and remote-controlled monitoring systems.
Korea Power Engineering Co. was responsible for the design of the newly dedicated thermal plants, while Doosan Heavy Industries and Construction undertook the construction of the units.
The project cost EWP 1,087 billion won. The latest thermal power units, built on a lot of 1.37 million pyeong or 4.52 million sq. meters were dedicated in three years and seven months after the project broke ground in September 2002.
An EWP official said, "The Dangjin units, serving as EWP's mainstay ones, help relieve power supply imbalance in the Seoul metropolitan area, especially stabilizing power supply in a peak demand load time during summer as they are located in the West Coast area near Seoul."Forty-five people were presented with diverse orders and other prizes. Chung Kap-chang, chief of EWP's Power Division, received the Order of Industrial Service Merit, Bronze Tower in recognition of his contribution to the dedication of the Dangjin Units 5 & 6.
EWP funneled 87.8 billion won in constructing an integrated art center and a stadium complex. The company plans to support 4.7 billion won for the regional community this year. nw

(Clockwise) MOCIE Minister Chung Sye-kyun, KEPCO Chairman Han Joon-ho, EWP President Lee Yong-oh and others cut the tape to complete Korea’s first ultra-super critical thermal power units. EWP President Lee. A scene of the ceremony marking the completion of the project.