KEPCO E&C (full name: KEPCO Engineering & Construction Company, INC., formerly: KOPEC) is a
power plant design and engineering company in
South Korea. It was established in 1975 as a public enterprise. KEPCO E&C engages in designing, engineering, and constructing nuclear and fossil
power plants. The company operates as a subsidiary of
Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO).
KEPCO E&C is providing total integrated
Engineering, procurement and construction
Engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contracts (a type of turnkey contract) are a form of contract used to undertake construction works by the private sector on large-scale and complex infrastructure projects.
Overview
Under an EPC co ...
(EPC) services. It has designed and built a total of 14
nuclear power plant
A nuclear power plant (NPP) is a thermal power station in which the heat source is a nuclear reactor. As is typical of thermal power stations, heat is used to generate steam that drives a steam turbine connected to a electric generator, generato ...
s using their own technology, including the development of
APR-1400
The APR-1400 (for Advanced Power Reactor 1400 MW electricity) is an advanced pressurized water nuclear reactor designed by the Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO). Originally known as the Korean Next Generation Reactor (KNGR), this ...
next-generation nuclear power plant. The company has also designed and built over 40
coal power
A coal-fired power station or coal power plant is a thermal power station which burns coal to generate electricity. Worldwide, there are about 8,500 coal-fired power stations totaling over 2,000 gigawatts Nameplate capacity, capacity. They ...
plants and combined cycle & cogeneration plants. In 2006, KEPCO E&C won the 'Be award', ''Plant:Multidiscipline Engineering'', for the Shin-Kori Nuclear Power Plant in Korea.
KEPCO E&C became the world's first business to develop the
low-temperature
In physics, cryogenics is the production and behaviour of materials at very low temperatures.
The 13th IIR International Congress of Refrigeration (held in Washington DC in 1971) endorsed a universal definition of “cryogenics” and “cr ...
DeNOx catalyst.
See also
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Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO)
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Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP)
References
External links
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Nuclear technology companies of South Korea
Electrical engineering companies of South Korea
Construction and civil engineering companies established in 1975
South Korean companies established in 1975