Meppen-Hüntel power plant
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| Coordinates | 52 ° 45 '17 " N , 7 ° 16' 37" E | ||
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| Type | Steam power plant | ||
| Primary energy | Fossil energy | ||
| fuel | natural gas | ||
| power | 627 MWel gross 610 MWel net |
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| operator | RWE | ||
| Start of operations | August 1974 | ||
| Shutdown | 2000 | ||
The power plant Meppen-Hüntel is a former natural gas-fired peak load - steam power plant in Hüntel , a district of Meppen in Emsland in Lower Saxony .
The power plant built by RWE in 1974 was shut down in 2000; then the area was redesigned to a leisure park , the Funpark Meppen .
The Swiss artist Christoph Rihs painted a map of the world on the 131 meter high cooling tower of the power plant in 1994 . According to the Guinness Book of Records, this is the largest in the world.
Structure and technical data
Firing:
- Fuel: Dutch natural gas (calorific value Hu: 32.2 MJ / m³), full load consumption: 180,000 m³ / h
- Tower boiler with 4 × 7 corner burners ( tangential firing )
- no flue gas cleaning required to meet the legal limit values
Steam data:
- Live steam 1775 t / h at 530 ° C and 172 bar
- Hot reheating: 1624 t / h at 530 ° C and 29 bar
- Condenser pressure: 70 mbar
Electrical power:
- 627 MWel gross
- 610 MWel net
Successor use
After the power plant was shut down in 2000, RWE first examined the construction of a biomass power plant at the site, which in particular should use chicken manure from the surrounding poultry farms. However, these plans were rejected.
In 2004 the site was bought by the Dutch investor Hendrikus van der Most in order to transform it into the Funpark Meppen amusement park . The park opened in spring 2013 after the opening date had been postponed several times. Van der Most had already built the Kalkar Wunderland on the site of the former Kalkar nuclear power plant .
In 2017, the cultural and music event "Synaptic Eclipse" took place in a part of the site, the musical focus was on psytrance .
A new combined cycle power plant planned by the Dutch electricity supplier Nuon is not directly related to the former power plant.
literature
- Paul Höhmann, u. a .: Model plants of the energy industry: RWE's Meppen natural gas power plant (Volume 13) . Graefelfing 1978
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c RWE - details of the power plants. In: Kraftwerke Online
- ↑ a b c Matthias Beuder: Prost EVA 921. (PDF file; 263 kB)
- ↑ a b Udo Leuschner : E.ON and RWE announce the shutdown of 10,000 megawatts of power plant capacity.
- ^ The Emsland → Sights → Meppen. ( Memento of the original from July 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 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.
- ↑ Meppen: In the future, RWE electricity from poultry manure? In: Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung / Meppener Tagespost , July 7, 2001
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from June 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) 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.
- ↑ Meppen: Fun Park remains closed. In: NOZ , May 24, 2011
- ↑ Not louder than Schützenfest - Goa Festival in Funpark Meppen: Much ado about nothing? In: noz.de , June 8, 2017
- ↑ Another power plant in Emsland - NUON from Holland is planning in Meppen-Hüntel ( Memento from June 22, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) In: Emsland-News
