Exchange Concepts - A new era of power plant maintenance

BEX at a glance

The Brownfield Engine Exchange (BEX) solution is designed based on a plug-and-play concept, providing a streamlined retrofitting process that yields improved performance and efficiency for your gas turbine. By integrating our latest H2-capable gas turbines into your asset, BEX can also help future-proof your operation. BEX operates on three guiding principles:

• Provide the flexibility to maintain the existing steam cycle or update it based on your future requirements
• Develop a tailored solution that fits your unique needs, by involving transparent discussions about layouts, business cases, and Balance of Plant calculations
• Integrating the new gas turbine package while reusing as many existing infrastructure components as possible, i.e. filter house, exhaust channel, foundation, and generator

Customer Ι Story  BASF, Germany

Siemens Energy carried out a major outage for BASF in Germany. Thanks to our Brownfield Engine Exchange solution, the power plant could be modernized without interrupting ongoing operations. 

RotEx at a glance

The RotEx solution is designed based on a plug-and-play concept, providing a streamlined retrofitting process that yields improved performance and efficiency for your gas turbine. 

Customers can benefit from improved cash flow, cost reduction and continued modernization when providing us with the flexibility of effectively managing their rotors.

At each outage, a just-in-time Siemens-qualified rotor according to Siemens‘ latest standards / recommendations is put into operation, while your existing rotor is sent to a Siemens facility to be updated and included in the rotor pool.

This proactive program can eliminate the rotor as a life-limiting component and enhance your possibility to optimize your assets with latest technology.