Dubai Aluminium Company (Dubal) has awarded orders worth around $237.03 million to Alstom for the turnkey construction of a 430 MW gas-fired combined-cycle power plant and the supply of fume treatment systems for its aluminium smelter in Dubai.

Dubal is extending two of its nine aluminium smelting pot lines at its plant and consequently needs more power for the production process.
Alstom will carry out the engineering, supply, building and commissioning of the new power plant, involving the supply of two of Alstom’s GT13E2 gas turbines, three generators, a steam turbine, heat recovery steam generator, digital control system and balance of plant.
Alstom will also supply two fume treatment centres for the extension of the two potlines that will significantly decrease the fluoride and particulate emissions produced in the aluminium production process.
The power plant will begin delivering power as early as January next year with project completion scheduled by the year-end.
 “The GT13E2 is proving itself to be the flexible and powerful solution required for power production for aluminium smelting. We are strong players in the aluminium market because of two factors – this technology and our plant integrator capability. This contract represents a significant development in the business relationship between our two companies,” says Philippe Joubert, president of Alstom’s xpower turbo-systems/power environment sector.
Alstom has, over the past three years, won several contracts to build turnkey power plants for the three aluminium producers in the Middle East, namely Aluminium Bahrain (Alba), Sohar Aluminium Company and Dubal in the company’s bid for continued expansion in the region.