S&S Energy Products, a GE Power Systems company, will supply Front Range Energy Associates, Ft. Lupton, Colo., with four GE LM6000 aeroderivative gas turbine-generator sets. The gas turbines will be equipped with GE`s SPRINT spray intercooling technology. SPRINT cooling lowers the high-pressure compressor inlet temperature, which in turn lowers the compressor discharge temperature. The compressor pressure ratio can be increased and additional air can be directed through the compressor to increase the gas turbines output characteristics. The first commercial LM6000 SPRINT in the U.S. began operation this summer at Lubbock Power & Light`s Massengale Station (65 MW), Lubbock, Texas, decreasing the repowered plant`s heat rate about 30 percent.
