Kirchlengern power plant
| Gas and steam turbine power plant Kirchlengern | |||
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| Coordinates | 52 ° 11 '46 " N , 8 ° 38' 51" E | ||
| country | Germany | ||
| Waters | Else | ||
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| Type | Gas and steam turbine power plant | ||
| Primary energy | natural gas | ||
| fuel | Hard coal / natural gas or heating oil | ||
| power | 184.5 MW | ||
| owner | Energieservice Westfalen Weser | ||
| operator | Energieservice Westfalen Weser | ||
| Start of operations | 1910 (hard coal) 1980 (gas and steam turbine power plant) |
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| Chimney height | 66 m | ||
| was standing | 05/30/2014 | ||
The Kirchlengern power plant is a gas and steam turbine power plant in the East Westphalian town of Kirchlengern . It was built by the Minden-Ravensberg power station as a coal-fired power station for the coal mined in Ibbenbüren and went into service on November 30, 1910.
history
The Kirchlengern power plant is the oldest power plant in the north of East Westphalia-Lippe and was the first power plant of the Minden-Ravensberg power plant . Here the electricity for the electricity company was generated and distributed over the supply area. For the construction of the Kirchlengern power plant, a flood-free area in Kirchlengern on the lower Else was quickly chosen from three possible locations close to the water . On November 30, 1910, the Kirchlengern hard coal power plant was inaugurated. It consisted of two blocks with an output of 1000 and 700 kilowatts respectively and was therefore intended as a base load power plant for the Minden-Ravensberg power station, which is in municipal hands. In 1912 a third block was built, which increased the power plant's output to a total of 3700 kW. Between 1920 and 1935 the power plant was characterized by permanent structural extensions and increased capacity. New steam boilers, turbo generators, pump systems, a second chimney and a new coal transport system with a bucket trolley were installed.
After the Second World War, the state government of North Rhine-Westphalia wanted to close the Kirchlengern power plant. The Minden-Ravensberg power station was supposed to get its electricity from the Lahde power station . But the EMR resisted, as this power plant was operated by Preussen Elektra and not under its own management. The decisive factor was that no other power plant could use the lean fine coal from the Ibbenbüren colliery so cheaply. In 1953, the Kirchlengern power plant was expanded to 169 megawatts.
The EMR built the Veltheim power plant in the 1950s, which was supposed to provide the base load. The Kirchlengern power plant lost a. also due to the increasing world market prices for hard coal its importance, because it could no longer be operated cost-effectively. In addition, there was no flue gas cleaning at the Kirchlengern power plant ; the population was exposed to emissions of smoke, soot, fly ash and noise. It was not until 1954 that an electrostatic precipitator ensured a tolerable reduction in flight dust. In the second half of the 1960s, the EMR converted the two 100 MW units to gas firing.
In 1980, the new 160 MW gas and steam turbine combination in the Kirchlengern power plant - the world's largest plant of its kind at the time - went into operation.
In 1984 the neighboring Grohnde nuclear power plant , in which EMR was involved, went on-line and supplied the base load electricity . From then on, the Kirchlengern power plant was only operated as a reserve or peak load power plant .
The electricity produced has been distributed over 40 transformer stations since 1912, which were connected to the power plant via EMR's own 110 km lines. The power station blocks delivered the electricity as three-phase alternating current (colloquially "three-phase current") with a voltage of 6000 volts; or 220 volts (230 volts) for "luminous flux" tensioned down.
On October 1, 2003, the Minden-Ravensberg power station was acquired as owner and operator in a merger by E.ON Westfalen Weser , and the latter became the new owner of the power station. In July 2013, the Kirchlengern power plant passed to the current owner, Energieservice Westfalen Weser. In August 2015, the latter applied to the Federal Network Agency to temporarily disconnect the Kirchlengern power plant.
The power plant does not have any cooling towers , but dissipates the waste heat to the Else . A barrage was built here and an agreement was reached with the water rights holder , a water miller.
Mains connection
The grid connection takes place at the 110 kV high voltage level in the grid of the transmission system operator E.ON Westfalen Weser Netz AG at the Kirchlengern substation node.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Introduction to Energy Technology, Chair for Sustainable Energy Concepts, Prof. Dr.-Ing Jürgen Voss, University of Paderborn ( Memento from November 12, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ a b c Local history of Südlengern ( memento from July 12, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) accessed July 27, 2011
- ↑ a b c Manfred Ragati, Harald Wixforth (Hrsg.): Economy and energy through the ages - the history of electricity supply in East Westphalia and Schaumburg-Lippe. Böhlau, Cologne 1999, ISBN 3-412-14198-4 . (Review)
- ↑ http://www.nw.de/lokal/kreis_herford/kirchlengern/kirchlengern/20549584_Kraftwerk-Kirchlengern-soll-vorlaeufig-vom-Netz.html
- ↑ 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 .