LEPSA participated as a strategic supplier for the construction of the combined cycle power plant, located at Chilca, Lima-Peru .This brought all the needed technical expertise in FRP for the owners, FENIX POWER & SNC LAVALIN, as well as to the site construction contractors GyM, BELFI-MONTEC, and the pipe supplier ERSHIGS, from USA. Our company was involved in the intake works, desalination, and demineralization processes.
All turbines combines required 500 m3/day in order to produce 228 MW.day, and extra 2,000 m3/day for the local population at Chilca, which accounts for 80% for the total water produced by the Plant.
From May until December 2011, LEPSA was in a contract with GyM for performing all butt-strapped joints of the pipes and fittings in the desalination plant, ranged from 6” diameter to 60” diameter. LEPSA also performed the socketed joints for piping at the intake works, which was 84” diameter. In February 2012, FENIX POWER purchased a second lot of FRP pipes and fittings, from 6” to 16” diameter, for the wastewater process, and awarded LEPSA with the installation.
Later in the year, from May until November 2012, BELFI-MONTEC contracted LEPSA for the butt-strapped joints of FRP piping, ranged 6” to 84”, and rated a 100 psi. LEPSA also supplied (38) flanges at 56” and 72” for seawater.
By July 2012, LEPSA provided support to ERSHIGS (USA) for the repair of 84” piping, damaged during handling and storage.
Finally, in December 2014, FENIX POWER, start the plant, with an installed capacity of 570 MW. Update: In December 2015, FENIX POWER was acquired by COLBUN (CHILE), and it’s been operated by them since.
