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SST-700 Steam Turbine Environmental Product Declaration: According To ISO 14021
SST-700 Steam Turbine Environmental Product Declaration: According To ISO 14021
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Sustainability as opportunity
Sustainability is the basis for how we do business
Our goal is to create value for the long term by treating
people and the environment in a responsible manner.
Innovative products and solutions are
the foundation for our success
They help our customers to achieve their business goals
while meeting global challenges such as urbanization,
demographic change, climate change and resource
scarcity.
We walk the talk
We pursue ambitious goals with regard to resource efficiency and environmental protection; we see our employees as our most valuable asset and develop them for the
long term; we value a corporate culture with a strong
emphasis on integrity; and we promote education, social
issues, arts and culture wherever we operate.
Siemens aims to set the highest standards for Environmental Protection. We urge our business partners to share
this ambition. We cooperate with both customers and
suppliers in an honest and open dialog in order to drive
forward a joint effort to attain continuous improvement.
The main objective of our environmental work is to
prevent pollution and continually to reduce the environmental impact from our activities in order to protect the
environment for future generations.
To meet these objectives, we will maintain and further
develop a culture in which reducing the environmental
impact of the product life-cycle is an integral part of our
daily work practice. Our integrated management system
for environment, health and safety, ISO 9001, 14001
and OHSAS 18001, is implemented worldwide within
the Siemens Energy Sector.
SST-700 IP turbine
at the Solnova 1 CSP plant near
Sanlcar la Mayor, Spain.
SST-700 HP Turbine
module in the
German workshop.
Product description
The SST-700 is a dual-casing steam turbine with up to
175 MW power output. It is specially designed for power
generation applications. In order to make the best use
of large changes in volumetric flow from inlet to outlet,
the SST-700 turbine steam expansion is divided into two
different modules: one high-pressure turbine (HP) and
one low-pressure turbine (LP), operating at different
speeds.
Material allocation
The SST-700 consists to nearly 100 percent of steel,
predominantly low-alloyed steel. The following diagram
shows the material allocation of the product.
0.4%
21%
32
32%
47%
59%
32%
7%
Material Manufacturing Transport
2%
Operation
CO2 savings:
3,000GWh
in 20 years of
operation*
2,610kt CO2
in 20 years of
operation**
* referring to 3000h of
operating per year
** a
gainst world fossil
average of 870kg/MWh
Description of the
life-cycle stages
An important product focus for Siemens is to minimize
the environmental impacts from resource extraction
through to ultimate disposal. At every stage, Siemens
has developed trendsetting solutions in accordance
with sustainable life-cycle thinking.
Materials
The life-cycle stage Materials includes the
material inventory which involves the extraction
of natural resources, transport to the processing
sites and the production of raw materials.
All product materials have been chosen with
regard to minimizing environmental impact.
The SST-700 consists mainly of ferrous and
non-ferrous metals. This ensures a high degree
of recyclability.
Manufacturing and Transport
The Manufacturing section covers all production
processes up to the assembly of the finished
product at the manufacturing site. The essential
data like energy, water and gas consumption,
are based on the annual manufacturing data of
the site.
The Transportation section includes the transport, mainly per sea, to the customer site. For
this LCA a customer site in the south of Spain
was assumed.
Operation
The life-cycle stage Operation covers all
environmental impacts of the described product
system during its operation phase. This also
includes the related service equipment. For steam
turbines, and therefore also for this LCA, a normal
operation time of about 20 years is assumed.
Its flexibility and inherent reliability have made
the SST-700 the steam turbine of choice for the
Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) industry.
End of life
The end-of-life scenario includes the disassembly,
recycling and thermal treatment of all recyclable
materials and also the disposal of all other
materials.
Recycling reduces significantly the consumption
of primary materials. A high degree of recycl
ability is given due to the high amount of steel
for the SST-700. In the case of steel, the recycling
rates are nearly 100%.
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