Power Generation Success for MAN Diesel MAN Diesel Wins Further Major Power Plant in Pakistan 27th June 2008. MAN Diesel SE, based in Augsburg, Germany, has signed a contract covering the supply of all the equipment for a second large diesel engine power station in Pakistan. The company states that its contract is worth around 150 million Euros and involves the construction on a “turnkey basis” of a plant which will produce over 200 MW of electrical power at Narowal in the Lahore region. Customer is the Hub Power Company (HUBCO), one of the leading independent power providers (IPP's) in Southeast Asia and the largest in Pakistan. MAN Diesel’s local subsidiary in Pakistan, MAN Diesel (pvt) Ltd. will be responsible for the supply of local goods and services, the company states.

The Narowal plant is based on 11 of the largest, 18 cylinder, vee configuration versions of the most powerful four-stroke engine in MAN Diesel's stationary power generation programme, the type 48/60B. The engines will burn heavy fuel oil (HFO) and will operate in a diesel-combined cycle arrangement: In a total electrical capacity of 213.60 MW, the output of the 11 generator sets based on MAN Diesel type 18V 48/60B engines is complemented by a steam turbine generator driven by steam raised from the engine exhaust gases.

The plant is due to go on grid at the end of March 2010, MAN Diesel reports. With this commissioning schedule, the Narowal plant will start generation around a year after a 225 MW facility contracted to MAN Diesel in 2007 and already taking shape at Sheikhupura, also near Lahore.

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