New Gas Turbine to Curb Tehran’s Water Consumption, Air Pollution

The replacement of dilapidated gas turbine in 52-year-old Besat Thermal Power Plant in southern Tehran with a domestically-manufactured F-class gas turbine will help curb water consumption by 95% from 18 million liters to 800,000 liters per day, director of combined-cycle projects at the Thermal Power Plants Holding Company said.
“The Besat facility consumes 18 million liters of water per day [18,000 cubic meters per day] to generate 1.2 billion kilowatts a year, accounting for a paltry 0.4% of the total annual national electricity output at 300 billion kWh,” Alireza Nasrollahi was also quoted as saying by the Energy Ministry’s news portal on Sunday.
The new gas turbine (MGT-75), manufactured by Iranian engineers at the Turbine Engineering and Manufacturing Company (TUGA), a subsidiary of MAPNA, the engineering and energy giant, is being installed at Besat.