Fortuna power plant (1912–1988)

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Fortuna power plant (I to III)
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Fortuna power plant (1912–1988) (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Fortuna power plant (1912–1988)
Coordinates 50 ° 57 '35 "  N , 6 ° 40' 58"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 57 '35 "  N , 6 ° 40' 58"  E
country Germany
Waters none ( cooling towers fed by pumped out groundwater from the nearby opencast mines)
Data
Type Steam power plant
( coal power plant )
fuel Lignite ( Rhenish lignite district )
power Max. 1120 MW (electrical) installed
Effective output of the units:
  • Plant I (1912 - 195x): approx. 8 MW
  • Plant II (from 1923): approx. 6 × 80 MW = 480 MW
  • Plant III: 2 × 100 MW (from 1956) + 2 × 150 MW (expansion in 1965) = approx. 500 MW
operator Fortuna AG → REW → RAG , → Rheinbraun , → RWE
Start of operations 1911/1912
Shutdown 1988
turbine Steam turbine
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The Fortuna power plant with its units I to III was a lignite power plant in the former Bergheim district of Fortuna (near Oberaussem ) in the Rhenish district .

Until the mid-1950s, it was supplied with coal from the directly adjacent Fortuna mine , later mainly from the Fortuna-Garsdorf opencast mine , but also from other opencast mines in the area ( Bergheim , Hambach via the Hambachbahn , Garzweiler via the north-south Train , ...).

Since the power plant was located in an area intended for mining with large deposits of lignite and since further operation would have been uneconomical due to pending modernization measures, the site was closed in 1988 for the extension of the Bergheim opencast mine and dredged together with the entire Fortuna district .

history

Construction and operation

The Fortuna power plant was built at the beginning of the 20th century on the initiative of Paul Silverberg by Fortuna AG (Fortuna Aktiengesellschaft für Braunkohlenbergbau und Briquettfabrikation) in order to utilize the coal from the company's own Fortuna mine and to supply the city of Cologne and the Bergheim district with three-phase current . The plant was operated by the subsidiary REW ( Rheinische Elektrizitätswerke im Braunkohlenrevier AG - not to be confused with RWE).

Plant I was connected to the grid (25 kV) in 1912 with an electrical output of around 4 MW , making it (together with the predecessors of the Goldenberg power plant ) the first coal-fired power plant in the Rhenish district. In 1914 the power plant supplied around half of the city of Cologne's electricity needs.

Plant II went into operation in 1923. The high pressure steam (80 bar) for the six steam turbines, each with approx. 78 MW electrical output, was generated in ten dust-fired boilers.

Plant III was put into operation in 1956/57 with two blocks of 100 MW each and expanded again in 1965 by two blocks of 150 MW each. The power plant thus achieved its maximum electrical output of just over 1 gigawatt .

Shutdown

Plant I had already been shut down in the 1950s because the technology was out of date and the low-output plant was no longer economical.

Plant II and III ended in the late 1980s, mainly for three reasons:

  1. Due to the large combustion plant ordinance that came into force , it would have been necessary from 1993 to build a modern flue gas cleaning plant; the level of investment required for this would have been associated with too little return of capital and would therefore have been uneconomical.
  2. There was overall overcapacity in the RWE power plant fleet; the lost continuous performance could with little effort compensated by other locations (e.g., as by the expansion of the first as Fortuna IV designated Niederaussem power plant ).
  3. Valuable lignite deposits that were to be developed were located under the power plant site

Starting in 1987, the performance was gradually reduced. The last turbine went offline on December 22nd, 1988. The entire power plant was then demolished and the site excavated. Most of the 400 employees were transferred to the neighboring Niederaussem power station, while the rest were retired.

literature

  • Detlef Witt: The Fortuna power plants . Ed .: RWE Betriebsverwaltung Fortuna. Greven & Bechtold, Cologne 1988, DNB  870683950 .
  • Albert Schreiber: The Fortuna II power plant. A monograph of a steam power plant in a systematic representation . In: Siemens manuals . tape 5 . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / Leipzig 1925, DNB  36265462X (XVI, 175 p. With 141 illustrations in the text, including 7 plates).
  • Volker Schüler , Helmut Schrön: Fortuna - cliffs, monastery, colony, pits, briquette factories, power plants 1857-1945 . In: Documenta Berchemensis historica . tape 10 . DBH pupil, Frechen 2008, DNB  990529916 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Oberaußem - Fortuna and the brown coal on www.stadtteilforum-oberaussem.de ( Memento of the original from June 30, 2013 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stadtteilforum-oberaussem.de
  2. ^ Special edition Kölnische Rundschau from March 27, 1956: Electrical energy from brown coal on www.wisoveg.de
  3. ↑ Niederaußem power plant at www.rwe.com

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