Duisburg-Huckingen power plant
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| Coordinates | 51 ° 22 '34 " N , 6 ° 43' 26" E | ||
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| Waters | Rhine (additional cooling tower water) | ||
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| Type | Conventional gas power plant | ||
| Primary energy | Fossil energy | ||
| fuel | Blast furnace gas , coke oven gas , natural gas as a reserve | ||
| power | 2 × 307 MW el | ||
| owner | Hüttenwerke Krupp Mannesmann | ||
| operator | RWE | ||
| Start of operations | 1975 | ||
| turbine | 2 × three-casing condensation turbine | ||
| boiler | 2 x Benson - tower boiler with reheat | ||
| Firing | Boxer sidewall firing | ||
| Chimney height | 2 × 120 m | ||
The Huckingen power plant is a gas-fired power plant owned by Hüttenwerke Krupp Mannesmann (HKM) on the premises of the HKM blast furnace steelworks in the Duisburg district of Hüttenheim ; operations are managed by RWE Generation . The name results from the fact that the steelworks formerly belonged to the Huckingen district .
technical structure
The power plant consists of two gas-fired units A and B, each with an electrical output of 307 MW. It works in conjunction with the steelworks, burns dome gas from blast furnace steel production ( furnace gas ) and from the company's own coking plant ( coke oven gas ). If necessary, for example to start up or in the event of malfunctions in the steelworks, the power plant can alternatively be fired with natural gas. In return for the gas supply, the power plant supplies the steelworks with electrical energy and process steam. Excess electricity is fed into the public grid. The grid connection is made via the Mündelheim switchgear at the 220 kV maximum voltage level in the power grid of the transmission system operator Amprion .
The power plant is located directly on the Rhine , but is not cooled directly with river water, but rather via wet cooling towers that are supplied with make-up water from the Rhine.
history
Before 1975, HKM operated its own power plant. In the course of modernizing the iron and steel works with the construction of a new blast furnace, HKW signed an energy service contract with RWE in 1971, which included the construction and operation of a larger and more modern power plant. The new power plant was built from 1973, Block A went online in September 1975, Block B followed a little more than a year later.
In the years of operation since 1975, the accumulation of waste gases has increased steadily to around double the value due to operational changes in the steelworks, and with it the average electricity production from 130 MW in the past to around 300 MW today.
The power plant has been modified several times due to the increased amount of dome gas. In 1995 the furnace was rebuilt in such a way that separate burners were reserved for blast furnace and coke gas.
Today only one of the two blocks is operated in the base load to supply the steelworks, the second block serves to secure the first and as a peak load reserve for the steelworks and the RWE network. The latter function has been increasingly important since around the year 2000 due to price fluctuations on the liberalized electricity markets.
On December 31, 2013, RWE sold the units of the power plant, which were last modernized in 2008 and 2011, to HKM for EUR 99 million. Operational management will continue to be provided by RWE; the operational management contract will run until December 31, 2024 .
gallery
Views from the Heinrich-Hildebrand-Höhe in the Angerpark
Duisburg-Huckingen power plant with factory premises
Hüttenwerke Krupp Mannesmann photographed from the Huckingen power plant
View from Duisburg-Mündelheim (in the foreground the Rheinauen)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Duisburg-Huckingen power plant. RWE Power AG - locations. RWE Power AG, accessed on November 22, 2010 .
- ↑ a b c d e f g Huckingen power station. (PDF; 552 kB) Information brochure. RWE Power AG, accessed on November 22, 2010 .
- ↑ Federal Network Agency power plant list (nationwide; all network and transformer levels) as of July 2nd, 2012. ( Microsoft Excel file, 1.6 MiB) Archived from the original on July 22, 2012 ; Retrieved July 21, 2012 .
- ↑ Federal Gazette: Hüttenwerke Krupp Mannesmann Limited Liability Company - annual financial statements for the financial year from January 1, 2013 to December 31, 2013.