Flingern thermal power station
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| Coordinates | 51 ° 13 '22 " N , 6 ° 48' 49" E | ||
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| Type | formerly coal-fired power plant , today gas turbine power plant and waste incineration plant | ||
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Hard coal (plant I + II) light heating oil (gas turbine power plant) residual materials (waste incineration) |
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| power | 55 MW ( electrical , waste incineration) + 90 MW (electrical, gas turbines) + 100 MW ( thermal ) district heating |
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| operator | Stadtwerke Düsseldorf | ||
| Start of operations | 1891 (plant I) 1913 (plant II) 1965 (waste incineration) 1973 (gas turbines) |
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| Shutdown | 19 ?? (Plant I) 1978 (Plant II) |
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The cogeneration plant Flingern is a thermal power station in Düsseldorf district Flingern . Various systems have been built at the site over the years. The plant, built in the 19th century, was one of the first and at times largest power plants in Germany. Plant II in particular represents a milestone in industrial architecture.
Plant structure and history
Plant I (gasworks)
From 1865 on, a gas works was operated on Höherweg in Flingern for the production of town and lighting gas . From 1891 a steam engine with 720 kW output belonged to this plant , which generated direct current via a generator for the plant's own use and neighboring consumers. The planning of the power plant came from Erasmus Kittler .
The gas works was badly damaged in World War II and taken out of service after the war. The associated disk gas container was demolished in 1994. After the gasworks was demolished, extensive measures to clean up contaminated sites were necessary, as the soil and groundwater were heavily contaminated , especially by aromatic hydrocarbons .
Plant II (hard coal power plant)
By 1912, the electricity demand in Düsseldorf had increased so much that the electrical capacity of Plant I was no longer sufficient. The city of Düsseldorf therefore decided to expand the facility and build a new plant II , which went into operation in 1913. Ruhr coal was burned , which was delivered by rail. The work was one of the first to use Georg Klingenberg's innovative architectural concept .
Factory II originally had six steam boilers and three turbo sets ( electrical output 2 × 6 MW + 1 × 10 MW = 22 MW). Since the energy demand continued to rise sharply, the system was expanded significantly in 1927 to a total of 24 boilers (manufacturer VKW and Dürr ) in two boiler houses and five turbo sets (manufacturer AEG and BBC ) with a total electrical output of 58 MW. From 1928, the plant also supplied district heating to heat the surrounding buildings. The facilities were modernized between 1936 and 1940; eight new high-pressure steam boilers and three corresponding steam turbines were used.
From 1972 the outdated plant went out of regular operation for reasons of economy. Boiler house B was demolished to make way for a new gas turbine power plant (see below). The remaining parts of the plant were switched off, but were initially kept ready for operation as a “ cold reserve ” . The final decommissioning was only decided in the 1990s.
During the demolition, as large parts of the industrial monument as possible should be preserved. The former machine house now houses the headquarters of Stadtwerke Düsseldorf . The preservation of the boiler house turned out to be financially not feasible; the building was demolished and replaced with a new extension.
Waste incineration plant
The waste incineration plant at the Flingern site has been operated by the municipal utilities since 1965, making it one of the first large-scale plants in Germany. This was preceded by a test facility from 1957.
Around 450,000 tons of residual waste are incinerated in the Flingern waste incineration plant every year . The steam generated from this is converted into electricity via the steam turbines in the neighboring power plant and used for district heating. Around 11 percent of the electricity used in Düsseldorf and around 20 percent of the inner-city district heating requirements are covered with energy obtained from waste.
Gas turbine power plant
In 1973 a gas turbine power plant went into operation as a peak load and shadow power plant (“hot reserve”) at the Flingern location . It consists of six aeroderivatives - gas turbines (derived from aircraft engines) from Rolls-Royce ( Avon type ) with an electrical output of around 15 MW each, a total of 87.6 MW. Light heating oil is used as fuel.
literature
- Thomas Bohn, Hans-Peter Marschall: 100 years of electricity for Düsseldorf 1891–1991 . (Documentation) Cologne 1991.
- Walter Buschmann (Ed.): Coal power plants. Show of strength for the preservation of monuments ?! Klartext, Essen 1999, ISBN 3-88474-767-3 .
- Axel Föhl: Buildings of industry and technology in North Rhine-Westphalia. Transit, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-88747-145-8 , pp. 205 ff.
Web links
- Official information on the website of Stadtwerke Düsseldorf
- Entry in the monument list of the state capital Düsseldorf at the Institute for Monument Protection and Preservation
- Flingern II at www.rheinische-industriekultur.de , last accessed on January 14, 2019
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Flingern thermal power station on stadtwerke-duesseldorf.de
- ↑ a b c d e f Martin Hülsermann: Flingern power plant, Düsseldorf. Term paper RWTH Aachen, 2004
- ↑ a b Smart energy. Electricity and district heating from Stadtwerke Düsseldorf. Brochure from Stadtwerke Düsseldorf
- ↑ Demolished gas containers (gasometers) and gas works in Europe at www.gaswerk-augsburg.de
- ↑ Headquarters of the Stadtwerke Düsseldorf on baukunst-nrw
- ↑ Waste incineration in Düsseldorf for a cleaner city , information brochure from Stadtwerke Düsseldorf, online at www.swd-ag.de (PDF)
- ↑ Flingern power station: From air to electricity , Westdeutsche Zeitung, July 1, 2005, online edition at www.wz-newsline.de