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Siemens is investing Euros 66 million to build a combustion test centre for gas turbines near Berlin.
“Combustion is the key to even higher efficiency in gas turbines, but there are limits to our ability to simulate it on a computer. Temperatures of 1,500 degrees centigrade and higher make extreme demands on the gas turbine materials,” said Mr Roland Fischer, Chief Executive Officer of the Fossil Power Generation Division, Siemens Energy Sector.
The projected test center will commence operation in 2014. It will have three cells for investigating combustion processes of burners under real-life operating conditions.
Siemens said that center of competence in Berlin Moabit and a recently commissioned production facility in Charlotte, North Carolina, form the basis of the global manufacturing, sales and service network for Siemens gas turbines.
The significance of the Berlin site is reflected by Siemens' decision to invest more than 70 million euros there in three major modernization programmes. The company has renovated its test facility in Berlin-Moabit, in which fully assembled gas turbines are tested under actual power plant conditions. A new drilling station for gas turbine casing parts has also been installed and a new production shop for gas turbine blades set up.
In fiscal 2011, Siemens’ environmental portfolio totalled revenue about Euro 30 billion.
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