Forth Banks Power Station
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| Coordinates | 54 ° 57 '54 " N , 1 ° 36' 54" W | ||
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| Type | Steam power plant | ||
| Primary energy | Fossil energy | ||
| fuel | coal | ||
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| operator | Newcastle and District Electric Lighting Company | ||
| Start of operations | 1890 | ||
| Shutdown | 1907 | ||
The Forth Banks Power Station was a coal-fired power station commissioned in 1890 in the city center of Newcastle upon Tyne , north east England . The plant was set up in an abandoned factory and was the world's first power plant which with turbine generators , a fixed combination of a steam turbine with an electrical generator was equipped.
The power plant was also the first public power plant in England and was operated by the Newcastle and District Electric Lighting Company . At the time, public power plants were unusual as factories had their own power stations.
investment
The original power plant when commissioned consisted of two turbo sets with an output of 75 kW each . The steam turbine used in the turbine set was a Parsons turbine built by CA Parsons and Company . The inventor and company founder Charles Parsons is also considered the inventor of the turbo set. The electrical generators also come from Parsons company, and were designed as single-phase alternating current generators with a frequency of 80 Hz , a number of pole pairs of 1 and a generator voltage of 1 kV .
In 1892, tube bundle heat exchangers were installed to increase efficiency. In the following years the turbo sets were exchanged and the number increased so that in the last year of operation 1907 a total of three turbo sets with 500 kW each and six turbo sets with 150 kW, with an installed capacity of 2.4 MW, were in operation. In addition, economisers were installed in order to be able to better use the waste heat from the power plant.
Since the power plant was installed in an already existing and at that time unused factory building, which was structurally unsuitable for power plant operation, the power plant was replaced in 1907 by the nearby Close Power Station .
literature
- Richard L. Hills: Power from Steam: A History of the Stationary Steam Engine . Cambridge University Press, 1993, ISBN 978-0-521-45834-4 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Electric Light Years 1878AD - 1900AD. Retrieved August 13, 2014 .
- ^ A b F. H. Bunting: The Early Days of the Power Station Industry . By RH Parsons. (1940). In: The Journal of Economic History . tape 2 , no. 01 . Cambridge University Press, May 1942, ISSN 1471-6372 , pp. 107-108 ( cambridge.org ). or Tyneside - an industrial powerhouse. Retrieved August 13, 2014 .
- ^ A b Report on Bath Electricity Work. (PDF) (No longer available online.) Structural Perspectives, p. 12, sheet 9 , archived from the original on June 29, 2015 ; accessed on August 13, 2014 . 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.
- ^ RH Parsons: The Early Days of the Power Station Industry . Cambridge University Press, 1939, pp. 171 .
- ↑ a b Municipal and private surgery of public utilities. National civic federation Commission on public ownership and operation, 1907, p. 301 , accessed on February 2, 2009 (Volume 2).
