Bochum power plant
| Bochum power plant | |||
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| Coordinates | 51 ° 27 '6 " N , 7 ° 13' 10" E | ||
| country | Germany | ||
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| Type | Thermal power plant / gas power plant | ||
| Primary energy | natural gas | ||
| power | 327 MW | ||
| owner | Hagedorn group of companies | ||
| operator | RWE | ||
| Project start | 1976 (gas turbines) | ||
| Shutdown | 1st October 2018 | ||
| boiler | 4th | ||
| Website | www.group.rwe | ||
| was standing | October 2, 2018 | ||
The Bochum power plant (abbreviation KBO ) was a gas -fired heating power plant ( gas power plant ) in Bochum .
history
In 1905, the power station began operating with the installation of the first generator to supply the Prinz Regent colliery . In the period from 1941 to 1949, the plant was modernized by equipping it with five new coal-fired boilers and an upstream turbine. From 1951, the coal mine power plant also supplied heat to the Bochum district heating network. After the colliery operations at Prinz Regent were closed in 1960, the coal from the Friedrich der Große colliery was delivered via the siding from Bochum Nord station .
The plant was taken over by Stadtwerke Bochum for 14 million DM in the course of the settlement of Opel Plant I from the property of Gelsenkirchener Bergwerks-AG in 1961/62, handed over to the then VEW AG and modernized by adding two more coal-fired boilers. In addition to the generation of electricity and district heating, process steam was also supplied to Opel from November 13, 1962. From 1969, the Ruhr University Bochum and the Bochum district of Hustadt were also supplied with district heating.
After the power plant was expanded to include a gas block with two steam and one hot water boilers in 1976, the older coal-fired boilers from the 1940s were shut down in 1979. In 1983, a twelve-kilometer district heating pipeline to the Shamrock power station was put into operation. The two younger coal boilers continued to operate until 1996 after they were overhauled in the early 1990s. Of the coal blocks with the three 80 to 120 m high chimneys, after the boiler houses were demolished in 1999, only the south-western extension remained, which contained the water treatment systems (including water softening ). In 2003/2004 a turbine was added to the system and the entire control technology was renewed. The Dortmund and Bochum thermal power stations were then driven from the Dortmund location .
Since the main customer, Opel, ceased to exist with the closure of the plant in 2014 and the contracts for the supply of heat to the Ruhr University Bochum and the district heating network of Hustadt expired at the end of 2017, the operator RWE Generation SE announced that it would shut down the Bochum power plant in 2018 .
A joint venture between Stadtwerke Bochum and Ruhr University Bochum (unique heat; company name made up of “ University ” and “ Que renburg”) has therefore built a combined heat and power plant in the rooms of the former heating center of the Ruhr University Bochum took over the heat supply of the Ruhr University and the Querenburg district on October 1, 2018.
Most recently, the combined heat and power plant worked mainly on the energy-saving principle of combined heat and power . The plant supplied its major customers with around 700 million kWh of district heating from natural gas annually ; in addition, up to 100 million kWh of electricity were generated, which were fed into the 110 kV network level of Westfalen-Weser-Ems Distribution Network GmbH . The unit output (net) was 21 MW, the district heating output 306 MW.
In May 2019, the Hagedorn Group took over the inner-city, disused existing space from RWE and will prepare it for new use.
Others
In a former machine hall of the power plant, there is a test track for the CargoCap freight transport system , which is being developed by the Ruhr University in Bochum and which was recognized as the location of the Germany - Land of Ideas initiative in 2006.
See also
swell
- Location HKW Bochum on rwe.com (accessed on 16 June 2015)
- oA: "Unstoppable structural change - cogeneration plant goes out of operation after over a hundred years", Stadtspiegel Bochum, October 17, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ Günter Gleising (Ed.): "Opel is coming ... 25 years of Opel AG in Bochum", self-published by DKP District Board Bochum, Bochum 1987
- ↑ Annual report 2002 of the RUB rectorate, online ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Accessed June 5, 2009)
- ↑ Jürgen Dodt, Alois Mayr (ed.): "Bochum in the aerial picture", Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 1976, ISBN 3-506-71228-4 , p. 98
- ↑ E.on participation in the VEW-VKR Fernwärmeleitung Shamrock-Bochum GbR online ( Memento of the original from November 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Accessed November 8, 2014)
- ↑ http://aktuell.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/pm2016/pm00019.html.de
- ↑ oA: "Heat for the university and for Querenburg - new heating power plant in the technical center of the RUB is in operation", Stadtspiegel Bochum, p. 13, Tuesday October 2nd, 2018
