Ibbenbüren power plant, Block A

Model of the former power plants
Model of the former power plants in the Ibbenbüren mining museum. Block A on the right, the ballast power plant on the left.
location
North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany
Coordinates	52 ° 17 '10 "  N , 7 ° 44' 32"  E Coordinates: 52 ° 17 '10 "  N , 7 ° 44' 32"  E
country	Germany
Data
Type	Steam power plant
Primary energy	Fossil energy
fuel	Hard coal
power	150 megawatts
operator	RWE
Start of operations	1967
Shutdown	December 29, 1987
boiler	2 Benson boilers of 260 t / h steam
Chimney height	170 m

The Ibbenbüren power plant, Block A , was a German hard coal power plant . It was in Ibbenbueren in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia . It had an output of 150 megawatts and was operated by RWE from 1967 to 1987 .

history

The power station was mainly supplied with coal from the neighboring Ibbenbüren colliery in Tecklenburger Land . The power plant was to serve as a supplement (3rd expansion stage) of the ballast power plant, which went into operation in 1954, in the immediate vicinity, as its electricity production could not cover the growing electricity demand. The shutdown was completed on December 29, 1987, due to the considerable investment required to continue operating without a time limit, despite the contracts for the purchase of coal until 1994. The boiler house and the turbine hall were demolished at the end of the 1980s. A small part of the connecting structure between the former turbine hall block A and the former turbine hall of the ballast power plant, which still exists today, has been preserved.

technology

View of the location of the former block A. On the left the turbine hall of the former ballast power plant with the attached former connecting tract to block A, the location of which was on the right-hand side of the picture

The steam supply was ensured by two Benson boilers , each with a steam output of 260 t / h. An air cooling tower was built because of the considerable water requirements of a wet cooling tower . The cooling water, which is warmed up in a condenser by the steam cooling, is cooled by air drafts via cooling fins, similar to the car. These stood in a ring around the natural draft cooling tower . The diameter of the cooling tower was 85 m at a height of 99.5 m.

Power plants in the area

The following power plants are in the immediate vicinity:

• Ibbenbüren power plant , which has been in operation since 1986.
• Former Preussag ballast power plant in Ibbenbüren , which was in operation from 1954 to 1985.

literature

• Hubert Rickelmann , Hans Röhrs : The Ibbenbürener hard coal mining. From the beginning to the present . 2nd, revised edition. Schöningh, Paderborn, Munich, Vienna and Zurich 1987, 350 pages, ISBN 3-506-77224-4 .

Web links

• History of the power plants in Ibbenbüren

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://archiv.ivz-aktuell.de/index4.php?id=23146&pageno=14 IVZ on December 31, 1987
2. ↑ https://archiv.ivz-aktuell.de/index4.php?id=23330&pageno=8 IVZ on August 11, 1988: "Hydraulischer Steinbeißer nibbles power plant vent"; accessed on May 7, 2018