The largest desalination and power plant in South East Asia is using Konecranes Smart turbine overhead cranes, fitted with advanced control, reliability and safety features, says the manufacturer.

The Tuaspring Integrated Water and Power Project plant in Singapore has a daily design capacity of 318,500 cb m of desalinated water, and also incorporates a 411MW on-site combined cycle gas turbine power plant.

Smart turbine overhead cranes

The power plant is serviced by Konecranes 370/30/3.2t SM Spacemaker multi-hook cranes and a complementary 80/3.2t Smarton open winch cranes set.

Both the Spacemaker and Smarton crane sets incorporate sway control and shock load prevention, as well as Extended Speed Range (ESR) control to attain higher average hoist speeds and crane speed on the bridge, says Konecranes. The cranes also offer outstanding safety and operating efficiency without increasing motor size, adds the company.

“The sway control is very useful for lifting jobs where there is very minimal space tolerance between machinery,” said Kannan Kumar, vice president at Tuaspring O&M (Power). “It helps to minimise the risk of collision between machines and allows lifting team members more control to ensure safe lifting in each instance.”

The Spacemaker cranes are well-suited to the power plant environment due to offering space efficiency, says Jonathan Lim, industrial cranes product specialist at Konecranes.

“A key to the crane components of the project was the ability to lift safely, efficiently and with very high reliability in a relatively confined space,” said Lim. “The cranes have to be able to work together reliably and safety as soon as called upon, so as to minimise maintenance downtime when removing, installing and servicing the generators, which are absolutely vital to the plant.”

Konecranes supplies Singapore water and power plant Smart turbine cranes