Lünen power plant

This article describes the STEAG coal-fired power plant. There is also the Trianel Lünen-Stummhafen power plant and the Lünen biomass power plant from STEAG and Remondis.

Lünen power plant
Lünen power plant
location
North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany
Coordinates	51 ° 36 '52 "  N , 7 ° 28' 53"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 36 '52 "  N , 7 ° 28' 53"  E
country	Germany
Waters	lip
Data
Type	Steam power plant
Primary energy	Fossil energy
fuel	Hard coal
power	Block 6: 149 megawatts Block 7: 324 megawatts
owner	Stadtwerke-Konsortium Rhein-Ruhr
operator	STEAG
Start of operations	1938
Shutdown	December 31, 2018
boiler	1 coal dust-fired Benson boiler with dry ash removal. 1 Melting chamber-fired Benson boiler with liquid ash removal
Energy fed in 2010	1518 GWh
Website	www.steag.com
was standing	September 2018

The power plant Luenen is a disused coal power plant in Lüner district Lippholthausen in the circle Unna .

history

The power plant was part of the consortium of municipal utilities Rhein-Ruhr and was from 1938 to 1941 for the supply of a lying nearby aluminum plant of Steag built. The output at that time was 180  megawatts . 1962 it was named after Hermann Kellermann in power plant Kellermann renamed. On September 25, 1968, the power plant's 250 meter high chimney was completed, at that time the highest chimney in Europe.

In the 1970s, attempts were made to gasify coal under pressure with an attached gas / steam turbine process .

technology

The power plant recently had two power plant blocks with a total output of 473 megawatts; the two blocks had outputs of 324 and 149 megawatts. They obtained their cooling water from the Lippe . In addition, a 110-megawatt turbo generator set has been available for traction power generation since 1984 . In addition to generating electricity, the power plant has been feeding into the district heating network of the city of Lünen since the end of 2003 . The annual hard coal consumption was 960,000  tons and the CO ₂ emissions 2.1 million tons (980 g CO ₂ per kWh). The smaller of the two power plant blocks feeds into the distribution network of Westnetz at the 110 kV level via the Lünen switchgear , the larger power plant block on the 220 kV level via the Elmenhorst switchgear into the transmission networks of Amprion and DB Energie .

Shutdown

After a contract for the supply of 110 MW traction current from Deutsche Bahn was terminated at the end of 2018, STEAG applied to the Federal Network Agency for the final shutdown of Lünen 6 and 7 on March 2, 2019. Since there was no systemic relevance, power plant units 6 and 7 were already taken offline on December 31, 2018. The reason for the shutdown was that the power plant operation was no longer economical. The dismantling of the three power plant blocks began in June 2020.

See also

• List of power plants

Web links

Commons : Coal-fired power station Lünen  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Information from the operator Steag on the Lünen power plant
• Information sheet from WWF Germany on CO ₂ emissions from the country's 30 most climate-damaging coal-fired power plants (PDF; 670 kB)
• Thru.de , web portal of the German Federal Environment Agency for querying emission data from the European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register according to E-PRTR Regulation (EC) No. 166/2006 of the European Parliament and the European Council of January 18, 2006. By search After the company name "Evonik Steag GmbH KW Lünen" the associated emission data can be found in the web portal.
• Information on the new Trianel power plant
• Information and pictures of the Lünen power plant at kohlekraftwerke.de
• Description of this sight on the route of industrial culturehttp: //vorlage.rik.test/~7~10736

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} power plant list of the Federal Network Agency , as of March 7, 2019
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} Lünen power plant. Energy for public and industrial supply. (No longer available online.) STEAG GmbH, archived from the original on January 19, 2012 ; Retrieved July 29, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.   
3. ↑ STEAG | History - Timeline - 1960–1969  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ Wingolf Lehnemann: Data chronicle of the city Luenen. (= Series of publications by the Lünen City Archives. 12) Lünen City Administration, Lünen 1992, p. 107.
5. ^ Answer of the Federal Government to the Minor Question of the Members of Parliament ... New Technologies for Hard Coal Power Plants. 20th October 1977
6. ↑ Steag has applied for shutdown. Off for Lüner coal-fired power station. In: ruhrnachrichten.de. March 2, 2018, accessed March 2, 2018 . 
7. ↑ ^{a b} Steag closes coal-fired power station for traction current. March 6, 2018, accessed March 6, 2018 . 
8. ↑ STEAG closes the Lünen power plant at the end of 2018.
9. ↑ Steag has applied for shutdown. Off for Lüner coal-fired power station. In: ruhrnachrichten.de. March 2, 2018, accessed March 2, 2018 . 
10. ↑ Kraftwerk disappears piece by piece. In: Lüner Anzeiger , June 16, 2020. Retrieved June 18, 2020.