Burner plant
| Burner plant | ||
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| Coordinates | 47 ° 8 '45 " N , 11 ° 26' 57" E | |
| country | Austria / Tyrol | |
| place | Matrei am Brenner | |
| Waters | Sill | |
| power plant | ||
| operator | Tiroler Wasserkraft AG | |
| construction time | 1898-1899 | |
| Start of operation | 1899 | |
| technology | ||
| Bottleneck performance | 7.7 megawatts | |
| Average height of fall |
85.8 m | |
| Expansion flow | 12 m³ / s | |
| Standard work capacity | 49 million kWh / year | |
| Turbines | 4 Francis turbines | |
| Generators | 4 three-phase generators | |
| Others | ||
| Website | Site of the operator TIWAG | |
| was standing | May 2011 | |
The burner plant is a run-of-river power plant from Tiroler Wasserkraft AG near Matrei am Brenner , which uses the hydropower of the Sill . Commissioning took place in 1899; This makes the burner plant one of the oldest in operation hydropower plants in Europe.
history
The burner plant was planned and built in 1898 and 1899 by the civil engineer Josef Riehl and the Munich contractor Oskar von Miller . The aim was to supply the Stubaitalbahn , which was completed in 1904, with electrical energy , in addition to the Wipptal and a carbide plant in Matrei . Originally 8 Pelton turbines were installed, which drove direct current generators. With several megawatts of electrical output, the burner plant was one of the most powerful hydropower plants at the time of completion, although the operators are said to have had difficulties initially in utilizing the large amount of energy.
After the demand for electricity increased sharply in the first half of the 20th century, it was necessary to replace the Pelton turbines with Francis turbines, which are much more efficient for a run-of-river power plant, in the early 1950s . As a result, the output of the burner plant rose to 7.7 MW and enabled a standard annual generation of 49 GWh.
With the signing of the Austrian State Treaty in 1955, the power plants were handed over to the Republic of Austria, but shortly afterwards they were transferred to Tiroler Wasserkraft AG in 1957.
Current situation
Due to the steadily increasing power consumption, the burner plant with its relatively low output has lost its importance and, despite improvements to the machine set, it can no longer supply too much of the power required in the Wipptal. Its economic efficiency in ongoing operation is nevertheless given and is based on the fact that the installation of modern control technology made it possible to remotely control the systems from the control center of Tiroler Wasserkraft AG in Thaur .
The machine house and the moated castle have been listed as historical monuments since 2018 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Josef Riehl's curriculum vitae on schienenweg.at , accessed on May 12, 2012.
- ↑ a b c d Tiroler Wasserkraft AG: The power plants of Tiroler Wasserkraft (brochure)
- ↑ 3/88 Sill hydropower plant "Brennerwerk" . In: Land Tirol (Ed.): Wasserbuch Tirol . ( tirol.gv.at ).