Moabit thermal power station
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| Coordinates | 52 ° 32 '15 " N , 13 ° 20' 45" E | ||
| country | Germany | ||
| Waters | Berlin-Spandau shipping canal | ||
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| Type | Thermal power station | ||
| Primary energy | Fossil energy | ||
| fuel | Hard coal , biomass | ||
| power | 140 MW electrical output and 240 MW thermal output |
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| operator | Vattenfall Europe Wärme AG | ||
The Moabit combined heat and power plant is a combined heat and power plant in the Berlin district of Moabit . It is used to supply the surrounding urban areas with district heating and electricity . The HKW is primarily fired with hard coal, and biomass is also used. It is located on the Friedrich-Krause-Ufer of the Berlin-Spandau shipping canal and belongs to the Swedish energy group Vattenfall , whose subsidiary Vattenfall Europe Wärme , which belongs to the German subgroup, is responsible for the operation.
history
The Berliner Elektricitäts-Werke acquired the property of a petroleum warehouse directly on the Berlin-Spandau shipping canal. This location could be supplied with coal from the water and the power plant could be supplied with cooling water. The Moabit power plant at the time was built from 1899 to 1901 as a three-phase power plant based on plans by Franz Schwechten . The Moabit high-voltage central station was able to go online for the first time in October 1900 . The north of Berlin, primarily Reinickendorf , Pankow and Spandau , was supplied.
The old piston steam engines were replaced by steam turbines in 1905. In a further construction project, a second machine and boiler house with mechanical lighting was built in 1907/1908 - also according to Schwechen's plans. The workers no longer charged the boiler with coal. In 1924, firing with coal dust was tested on a converted grate boiler for the first time . In 1925 a coal grinding and processing plant was built according to plans by Hans Heinrich Müller and the BEWAG construction department built a 6 kV and 30 kV switch house. The coal dust firing made it necessary to remove dust from the flue gases, which was tested with electrostatic precipitators in 1926.
In 1929/1930 there was an expansion and modernization under the direction of Walter Klingenberg and Werner Issel , who had also planned the Klingenberg power plant . In 1987 a large part of the old power plant was demolished due to further modernization work (including flue gas desulphurisation and denitrification). Some of the old buildings were preserved. These are under monument protection and can be visited.
In addition to hard coal, biomass has also been used as fuel since the end of 2013 . For the co-incineration of biomass, the plant was converted to the fluidized bed combustion process . According to the operator - and depending on the availability of the fuel - up to 40 percent of the combustion heat output can be generated using biomass (as of November 2017).
View from the east
Coal loading bridge
Silos
Coal dump
Coal train
literature
- Sigrid Hoff: Forays through Berlin. Nicolai, Berlin 1986, ISBN 978-3-8758-4154-1 , pp. 39-43.
- Bewag (ed.): Moabit power plant. Architecture and Art 1900-1990. 1990.
- Monument Protection Foundation (publisher): Berlin shines. Highlights of Berlin's power plant architecture. Braun, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-935455-30-5 , pp. 38-53.
Web links
- Moabit thermal power station on the Vattenfall website
- Moabit power plant in the Berlin State Monument List
- Daniel Wetzel: In Berlin, a coal pile in front of the door doesn't bother you . In: Die Welt , November 28, 2014.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Moabit thermal power station . Vattenfall AB website , accessed November 11, 2017.