Bad Abbach traction power plant

Bad Abbach traction power plant
Bad Abbach traction power plant
location
Coordinates	48 ° 56 '39 "  N , 12 ° 1' 13"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 56 '39 "  N , 12 ° 1' 13"  E
country	Germany , Bavaria
place	Bad Abbach
Waters	Danube
Kilometers of water	km 2399.35
Height upstream	338.2  m above sea level NHN
power plant
owner	Rhein-Main-Donau AG
operator	Uniper Kraftwerke GmbH
construction time	1998
Start of operation	2000
technology
Bottleneck performance	3.5 megawatts
Average height of fall	5.0 m
Expansion flow	90 m³ / s
Standard work capacity	21 million kWh / year
Turbines	1
Generators	1
Others

The Bad Abbach traction power plant is a run-of-river power plant on the Danube and is sometimes also referred to as the Bad Abbach engine .

The power plant, which was built from 1998 to 2000, is located near Oberndorf , a district of Bad Abbach . It uses the difference in level between the lock canal and the Danube. The inlet is around river kilometer 2399.35, the outlet into the underwater of the northern arm is around 2397.8 N. The electrical output of the power plant built by Bayernwerk-Wasserkraft AG is 3.5 MW.

The power plant only provides traction current . Due to the low output of the power plant, the electrical energy is fed directly into the overhead line at a voltage of 15 kV. This only existed in this form in Germany at the Kammerl hydropower plant, which was shut down in 2013 . All other German traction power plants feed into the higher-level 110 kV traction power network of DB Energie GmbH.

The Bad Abbach power plant , which generates normal three-phase alternating current for the network , is located just under 4 km upstream.

Left: Access to the Bad Abbach lock (Oberwasser). Right: inlet to the traction power plant (headwater) and hydraulic machine for cleaning the rake (blue).

The higher level of the Rhine-Main-Danube Canal (right) near Gundelshausen.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} WebMapService. Federal Waterways and Shipping Administration , accessed on October 8, 2013 .  
2. ↑ List of power plants. (No longer available online.) Rhein-Main-Donau AG , archived from the original on October 12, 2013 ; Retrieved December 8, 2013 . 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. ↑ Dieter Thierbach: Every tenth train runs on water power. Süddeutsche Zeitung , May 10, 2010, accessed on December 26, 2013 .