Bruce Mansfield Power Plant
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| Coordinates | 40 ° 38 ′ 6 ″ N , 80 ° 24 ′ 55 ″ W | ||
| country | United States | ||
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| fuel | coal | ||
| power | 2,490 MW | ||
| owner | FirstEnergy | ||
| Start of operations | 1976 | ||
| Shutdown | November 2019 | ||
| boiler | 3 | ||
| Chimney height | 2 × 289.6 m 1 × 183 m |
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The power plant Bruce Mansfield is a coal power plant in Beaver County in Pennsylvania . It is located on the left bank of the Ohio River in the Shippingport parish , about 25 miles west of Pittsburgh . Like the neighboring Beaver Valley nuclear power plant , it is operated by FirstEnergy .
The power plant consists of three blocks with a total output of 2,490 megawatts . These were put into operation between 1976 and 1980. The two older blocks each have a 289.6 m (950 ft ) high chimney, the chimney of block three is 600 ft (183 m) high. Each of the three cooling towers is 125 m (410 ft) high. The entire site covers an area of 1.9 km² (473 acres ). At full load, the Bruce Mansfield power plant can generate 59 million kilowatt hours of electricity per day.
Seven million tons of coal are burned each year, most of which is delivered by barge across the Ohio River. A factory is connected to the power station, which processes the gypsum produced during flue gas desulphurisation into plasterboard .
In 2016 the power plant was mothballed due to low electricity prices.
| unit | Operation from | Power (MW) |
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| 1 | 1976 | 830 |
| 2 | 1977 | 830 |
| 3 | 1980 | 800 |
environment
According to FirstEnergy, a third of the total construction cost of 1.4 billion US dollars was invested in environmental protection measures. The power plant has systems for dedusting , nitrogen oxide and sulfur dioxide filtering , but the environmental damage is sometimes considerable. The Bruce Mansfield power plant, for example, with CO 2 emissions of 17.4 million tons in 2007, was the power plant with the highest carbon dioxide emissions in Pennsylvania and was ranked 16th in the United States.
Another environmental problem is the power plant's fly ash dump eight kilometers further west on the Little Blue Run . The milky turquoise lake contains various heavy metals as well as arsenic and selenium . Because of the immediate danger to people in the event of a dam breach, the reservoir is on a list of 49 potentially dangerous such facilities drawn up by the EPA .
Individual evidence
- ^ Bruce Mansfield coal power plant idled because of low power prices. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette , March 9, 2016, accessed October 15, 2016 .
- ↑ Americas-Biggest-Polluters.pdf (English)
- ↑ oaspub.epa.gov Toxic Emissions 2008 (English)
- ↑ www.epa.gov Coal Combustion Residues (CCR) - Surface Impoundments with High Hazard Potential Ratings (English).