Anglesea power station
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| Coordinates | 38 ° 23 '21 " S , 144 ° 10' 50" E | ||
| country | Australia | ||
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| Type | Thermal power plant | ||
| fuel | Brown coal | ||
| power | 150 MW | ||
| operator | Alcoa World Alumina and Chemicals | ||
| Start of operations | 1969 | ||
The Anglesea power plant is a lignite power plant located near Anglesea , in Victoria , Australia, about 100 kilometers from Melbourne . It occupies an area of 5 square kilometers of Anglesea Heath , an area of great biodiversity and a total of 67 square kilometers, which is registered in the Australian Register of the National Estate .
The power plant provides 150 MW of power with a steam turbine and the connected generator and supplies 40% of this to the nearby Point Henry aluminum smelter , the Alcoa World Alumina and Chemicals (AWAC). The power plant went into operation on March 20, 1969 and burns lignite from the opencast mine next to the power plant, which is transported to the power plant by trucks on a 3-kilometer private road. The overburden is deposited and filled with conveyor belts on the mining site, which are loaded with wheel loaders and trucks.
1955 test drilling was carried out by the Roche Brothers at Anglesea, which operated a mine near Wensleydale , whose coal reserves were depleted. An extensive coal deposit was discovered 2 kilometers north of Anglesea and mining began in 1059 to supply lignite to industry and institutions in the Geelong area . The mining rights were taken over by the Western Mining Corporation in 1961 to supply the planned AWCA power plant. The Act of 1961 (called the Aluminum Agreement) guarantees AWAC an exclusive 50-year right to mine and prospect deposits over an area of 7,350 hectares in this region. After further drilling by WMC to the east of the original mine and closer to the power station, a 50 million ton coal deposit was discovered. The thickness of this coal deposit is about 140 meters, with a mineable reserve of 70 million tons in an upper layer and 90 million tons in a lower layer. In 1992 the ratio of overburden to coal with an average coal thickness of 27 meters reached a ratio of 2.5 to 1.
In 2005 about 35 million tons of coal had been mined, of which about 1.1 million tons of brown coal were burned annually in the steam turbine of the power plant, which needs 144 tons of pulverized brown coal in one hour to generate electricity. Anglesea coal has a high calorific value for generating electricity when mixed with other lignite. However, it has a high sulfur content of 3%, which leads to high emissions of sulfur dioxide (SO 2 ) and pollutes the environment. The Carbon Monitoring for Action estimates that the power plant emits approximately 1.21 million tons of greenhouse gas annually as a result of its lignite combustion.
The Anglesea power station takes cooling water from six underground artesian wells that have been drilled and fed by rainwater.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ R. Arklay, I. Sayer: Geelong's Electric Supply - September 1970
- ↑ a b Jack Vines: Anglesea Brown Coal Mine . In: Coal Mining Heritage Study . www.heritage.vic.gov.au. 2008. Archived from the original on October 18, 2009. 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. Retrieved March 7, 2010.
- ^ Victoria - Sulfur dioxide reduction at AWAC . www.aluminalimited.com. Archived from the original on February 14, 2010. 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. Retrieved March 7, 2010.
- ↑ carma.org : Carbon Monitoring for Action . Retrieved November 23, 2008
