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9E Advanced Gas Path

A LifeMax* Advantage Solution
The Advanced Gas Path Upgrade
GEs 9E Advanced Gas Path (AGP) is an upgrade solution that delivers
industry-leading performance and operational flexibility driven by
increased output, efficiency, and availability. AGP technology enables
GE customers to benefit from lower fuel consumption, and the industry's
longest gas path maintenance intervals that extend gas turbine assets
and parts life. This solution, which blends hardware innovations with GE's
advanced OpFlex* software, has been developed from data insights and
operational experience on GE's proven 7F-3 AGP upgrade technology
that has qualified for GE's ecomagination portfolio.

The LifeMax Advantage

The AGP solution exemplifies GE's LifeMax Advantage, a portfolio of hardware and software-blended
solutions that enables our customers to unleash the full performance and long-term value of their
existing B/E-Class gas turbine assets.
Only GE customers are empowered to harness this technology, in tandem with data-driven insights
from 100+ million hours of operating data on the worlds largest gas turbine fleet. In partnership with
our customers, we then apply this knowledge to co-create the solutions that help them best achieve
their desired outcomes. That's the LifeMax Advantage.

Advanced Gas Path Attributes

Performance
Benefits

AGP technology broadens the operating range of 9E assets with industry-leading upgrade performance
improvements, including:
Up to 2% increase in output combined cycle/3.8% simple cycle**
Up to .2% increase in fuel efficiency combined cycle/.9% simple cycle**
Up to 32,000-hour or 1,200 start gas path maintenance intervals, which can extend outage intervals up to 33%**
Extension of gas turbine assets and parts life out to as much as 96,000 hours**
GE's OpFlex* corrected parameter control software suite can further improve AGP performance:
Up to 8% increase in output with <25 ppm NOx**
Up to 10% increase in Modified Wobbe Index fuel flexibility over expanded ambient conditions/load ranges**
Deliver power to the grid in <10 minutes**
Turndown to as low as 50%**

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**Performance on other frames will vary.

A GE Predictivity* solution

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Technological
Advancements

GE has leveraged more than 30 million hours of fleet operational experience in applying design innovations
to key gas turbine components, including hot gas path buckets, nozzles, and shrouds:
3D Aero bucket design for better aerodynamic efficiency
Advanced bucket tip shroud designs for improved cooling and sealing efficiencies
Advanced shroud materials for improved durability
Single nozzle design for cooling efficiency and stress reduction
Improved nozzle hook sealing for higher firing temperature and increased output

Customer
Successes

Dubai Aluminium (DUBAL), one of the world's largest producers of aluminum products, has experienced a
3.4% output increase and a 1.5% fuel efficiency improvement on one GE 9E gas turbine since installing the
AGP solution. These performance improvements have delivered nearly six additional megawatts of power
to the site's power station, and enabled DUBAL to reduce its fuel costs. DUBAL will install AGP technology on
two additional GE 9E units, and expects to gain comparable performance improvements that will translate to
nearly 18 total MW of additional power across all three gas turbines.

Environmental
Benefits

The 9E AGP solution has been developed from data insights and the operational experience of GE's proven
7F-3 AGP upgrade technology, which has qualified for GE's ecomagination portfolio. Ecomagination solutions
provide our customers with the ability to meet burgeoning power demands more flexibly, efficiently, and while
maintaining a low emissions footprint.
***Gas turbines referenced are GE 7F-3 units.

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GEA30848A (11/2013)