Moorburg gas power plant
| Moorburg gas power plant | |||
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| Coordinates | 53 ° 29 '24 " N , 9 ° 57' 6" E | ||
| country | Germany | ||
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| Primary energy | Fossil energy | ||
| fuel | Natural gas , heating oil | ||
| power | 1000 megawatts net | ||
| owner | Hamburg Electricity Works | ||
| operator | Hamburg Electricity Works | ||
| Start of operations | 1974 | ||
| Shutdown | 2001 | ||
| Chimney height | 256 m | ||
The gas power plant Moorburg was originally designed for operation with natural gas provided conventional power plant in Hamburg district Moorburg . With the construction of the second block, it was also fired with heating oil up to Masut from the nearby refinery . Due to the environmentally problematic fuels, the chimney was, after objections by environmentalists, with 256 meters, 100 meters higher than originally planned, in order to carry the exhaust gases further away from the urban area due to the additional height. The flue gas from the oil-fired block had to leave the chimney at approx. 220 ° C, otherwise the condensation products would have attacked the chimney top. Block 1 "pure gas block" had a smoke gas temp. of about 105 ° C. This boiler was only connected to the high chimney in 1995, before this boiler system only had a "stub" on the boiler house roof.
The power plant was in operation between 1974 and 2001 and was demolished in 2004. The Moorburg coal-fired power plant was built at the same location from 2007 to 2015 .
After three years of construction, Hamburgische Electricitäts-Werke (HEW) put the Moorburg gas power plant into operation in 1974 . It had two power plant blocks with an output of 500 MW el each , making it one of the largest conventional power plants in Germany. In July 2001, the power plant was shut down because rising gas prices had made electricity generation uneconomical and the merger of HEW, Bewag , Vereinierter Energiewerke AG (VEAG) and Lausitzer Braunkohle AG (LAUBAG) made it possible to bundle electricity reserves into Vattenfall Europe .
The chimney of the power plant was at a height of 256 m, the highest massive construction of Hamburg (the TV tower is m high without its antenna 204).
In 2002, the dismantling of the power plant by TVF Thyssen-VEAG land recycling GmbH began. On April 24, 2004 at 7:30 a.m., the 15,000 t chimney was blown up with a so-called folding blast, in which the explosive charges were placed on three levels, at ground level, 63.5 m and 91 m high. The force of the blast detached a metal ventilation grille from the chimney jacket, flew into a neighboring switchgear and triggered a short circuit there. The subsequent power failure in some southern Hamburg districts also resulted in an immediate emergency shutdown and a production downtime of several days at the refineries of Shell and Holborn Europa Raffinerie GmbH (HER). The demolition of the two boiler houses, scheduled for 7.30 p.m. on the same day, therefore took place on May 8, 2004. A special procedure was used in which the explosive charges were placed in two of the four main steel supports of the boiler houses. The supports were filled with water, which pushed them apart during the detonation.
