Heyden power station

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Heyden power station
Heyden power plant from the air
Heyden power plant from the air
location
Heyden power plant (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Heyden power station
Coordinates 52 ° 22 '55 "  N , 8 ° 59' 54"  E Coordinates: 52 ° 22 '55 "  N , 8 ° 59' 54"  E
country GermanyGermany Germany
place Petershagen
Waters Weser
Data
Type Steam turbine
Primary energy Hard coal
power Block 4: 875 MW megawatts
owner Uniper
operator Uniper Kraftwerke GmbH
Project start 1939
Start of operations May 7, 1951, Block 4: 1987
Chimney height 225 m
Website Uniper
was standing 2020
Heyden power station seen from the east

Heyden power station seen from the east

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The Heyden power plant is a German hard coal power plant . It is located in Lahde near Petershagen in the Minden-Lübbecke district in North Rhine-Westphalia and was the most powerful hard coal-fired power plant with just one block in Europe with a net output of 875 megawatts before the Datteln IV power plant block began operating .

history

The Lahde power plant owned by PreussenElektra was the first power plant to go online in the Federal Republic of Germany after the Second World War . On May 7, 1951, it produced 120 megawatts of power from up to 54 tons of hard coal per hour for the first time.

The planning for the power plant had already begun in 1939 by the predecessors of PreussenElektra and was accompanied by the expansion of the Mittelweser and the construction of the Petershagen barrage. During construction in the 1940s, forced laborers from the Lahde camp were used under difficult conditions. A memorial stone on the power plant site reminds of the unimaginable suffering of these people.

In honor of the company's founding director, Wilhelm Heyden (1877–1952), who died the previous year, the site was renamed the Heyden power plant on January 1, 1953 . In April 1960 and August 1961 two further units were put into operation to meet the increasing demand for electricity. With the decommissioning of these three units at the beginning of the 1980s, construction of Unit 4 began at the same time, which has been supplying up to 875 megawatts of energy (net) since 1987. On July 3, 2011, the plant's 60th anniversary was celebrated with an open day.

In 2012, the power plant went offline from the end of April to mid-July due to overhaul work. The technology was serviced and modernized for 40 million euros after 150 days of downtime . The last major overhaul with a shutdown of the plant was in 2005.

Following the spin-off of the energy generation divisions from E.ON, the Heyden power plant and 16 other coal-fired power plants belong to Uniper .

power

At the beginning, the plant had an output of 865 megawatts. Thanks to constant modernization and further development, the hard coal monoblock currently has a gross output of 920 megawatts, making it both the most powerful coal-fired power plant operated by Uniper Kraftwerke GmbH and currently the largest hard coal monoblock in Europe. The efficiency of the power plant is 42 percent.

The Heyden power plant is designed for use in medium loads. Apart from times when it has to replace unavailable power, it is mainly used on working days according to the changing power demand. With 3000 to 5000 full load hours of use per year, the power plant performs an annual work of between 2.5 and 4.2 billion kilowatt hours .

In the course of the energy transition , the power plant is no longer only used in the medium load range, but also serves to stabilize the grid and sometimes also works in the base load range.

Up to three trains with 44 wagons each with 60 tons of coal each are delivered to the Heyden power plant, and deliveries can also be made by ship. Up to 143,000 tons of hard coal can be stored on the coal heaps of the power plant, the daily consumption is a maximum of 7,000 tons. The conveying capacity of the large equipment and conveyor systems for feeding the dumps and coal bunkers is 1000 tons per hour.

Mains connection

The grid connection takes place at the 380 kV maximum voltage level in the Ovenstädt substation of the transmission system operator Tennet TSO .

staff

The Heyden power plant has been operated in conjunction with the Wilhelmshaven power plant and the Huntorf power plant since 2009 and is now called the North Power Plant Group. Heyden has been headed by Thomas Hohmann since October 1, 2009, after having held this position on a provisional basis since 2008. The power plant manager in 2015 is Uwe Knorr.

Emission of pollutants and greenhouse gases

Critics point to high emissions of the power station Heyden nitrogen oxides , sulfur oxides , mercury and particulate matter on which cancer producing substances ( lead , cadmium , nickel , PAHs , dioxins and furans ) can adhere. In 2013, a study commissioned by Greenpeace at the University of Stuttgart came to the conclusion that the fine dusts emitted by the Heyden power plant in 2010 and the secondary fine dusts formed from sulfur dioxide , nitrogen oxide and NMVOC emissions lead statistically to 432 years of life lost (rank 17 of German coal power plants, 432 "Years of Life Lost").

In addition, in view of climate change, the CO 2 emissions of the power plant are criticized by environmental groups.

The Heyden power plant reported the following emissions in the European " PRTR " pollutant register :

Emissions from the Heyden power plant
Air pollutant 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013
Carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) 3,680,000,000 kg 3,970,000,000 kg 3,960,000,000 kg 3,870,000,000 kg 4,230,000,000 kg 2,540,000,000 kg 4,130,000,000 kg
Nitrogen oxides ( NO x / NO 2 ) 2,560,000 kg 2,780,000 kg 2,610,000 kg 2,920,000 kg 3,250,000 kg 1,910,000 kg 3,010,000 kg
Sulfur dioxide (as SO x / SO 2 ) 1,900,000 kg 1,860,000 kg 1,660,000 kg 1,380,000 kg 2,050,000 kg 1,250,000 kg 2,240,000 kg
Particulate matter ( PM10 ) not specified 59,200 kg 58,800 kg 86,700 kg 60,500 kg not specified not specified
Inorganic fluorine compounds (as HF ) 72,800 kg 96,000 kg 77,200 kg 55,900 kg 70,500 kg 44,800 kg 49,800 kg
Inorganic Chlorine Compounds (as HCl ) 15,400 kg 16,300 kg not specified 39,100 kg 66,500 kg 39,700 kg 65,400 kg
Ammonia (as NH 3 ) 12,000 kg not specified not specified not specified not specified not specified not specified
Mercury and compounds (as Hg ) 28.6 kg 31.3 kg 28.4 kg 28.4 kg not specified not specified 53.8 kg

No other typical pollutant emissions were reported, as they are only required to be reported in the PRTR from an annual minimum amount, e.g. B. Dioxins and furans from 0.0001 kg, cadmium from 10 kg, nickel from 50 kg, chromium and copper from 100 kg, lead and zinc from 200 kg, ammonia and nitrous oxide (N 2 O) from 10,000 kg, fine dust (PM10 ) from 50,000 kg, volatile organic compounds except methane (NMVOC) from 100,000 kg and carbon monoxide from 500,000 kg.

The European Environment Agency has estimated the cost of damage to the environment and health of the 28,000 largest industrial plants in Europe on the basis of the emission data reported in the PRTR using the scientific methods of the European Commission. According to this, the Heyden power plant ranks 107th among the damage costs of all European industrial plants.

Environmental and health damage
cause Damage costs unit proportion of
Heyden power station 181-264 Million Euros 0.2-0.3%
A total of 28,000 systems 102-169 billion euro 100%

literature

  • Heyden power station, information booklet from E.ON, as of June 2011

See also

Web links

Commons : Kraftwerk Heyden  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Mindener Tageblatt: From Fire to Electricity ( Memento from February 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ Homepage of the Heyden power plant: History of the power plant: 1941 to 1945 ( Memento from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on September 1, 2015.
  3. ^ Homepage of the Heyden power plant , accessed on July 11, 2011.
  4. ↑ Heyden power plant remains promising. In: Mindener Tageblatt. Print edition, May 31, 2012, p. 17.
  5. ↑ Petershagen / hard coal power plant: "Very, very impressive". In: Schaumburger Nachrichten. for Open Day 2011. July 5, 2011, accessed June 1, 2012
  6. ↑ List of power plants. Federal Network Agency , November 11, 2019, accessed on December 11, 2019 .
  7. ↑ New head of the Heyden power plant. In: Mindener Tageblatt. October 12, 2009, accessed June 1, 2012.
  8. ↑ Fine dust sources and damage caused , Federal Environment Agency (Dessau)
  9. ↑ Assessment of Health Impacts of Coal Fired Power Stations in Germany - by Applying EcoSenseWeb (English, PDF 1.2 MB) Philipp Preis / Joachim Roos / Prof. Rainer Friedrich, Institute for Energy Economics and Rational Use of Energy, University of Stuttgart , March 28, 2013
  10. ↑ Coal electricity has no future - climate protection now! Internet information on electricity generation from coal-fired power plants, Federation for the Environment and Nature Conservation Germany , accessed on April 21, 2014
  11. ↑ Energy Policy - Time is of the essence Internet information on the energy transition in Germany, WWF , accessed on April 21, 2014
  12. ↑ PRTR - European Emissions Register
  13. ↑ PRTR regulation 166/2006 / EC on the creation of a European pollutant release and transfer register and on the amendment of the Council Directives 91/689 / EEC and 96/61 / EC
  14. ↑ Cost-benefit analysis of air quality policy , Clean Air for Europe (CAFE) program, European Commission
  15. ↑ a b Revealing the costs of air pollution from industrial facilities in Europe , European Environment Agency , Copenhagen, 2011