Gustav Knepper power plant

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Gustav Knepper power plant
Gustav Knepper power plant (2013)
Gustav Knepper power plant (2013)
location
Gustav Knepper power plant (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Gustav Knepper power plant
Coordinates 51 ° 34 '6 "  N , 7 ° 20' 56"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 34 '6 "  N , 7 ° 20' 56"  E
country GermanyGermany Germany
Data
Type Steam power plant
Primary energy Fossil energy
fuel Hard coal
power 360 MW net output
owner Hagedorn group of companies
Start of operations 1971 (Block C)
Shutdown 23rd December 2014
Chimney height 210 m
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The Gustav Knepper power plant was a hard coal-fired power plant in the Mengede district of Dortmund on the outskirts of Castrop-Rauxel . It was named after the mine director Gustav Knepper . The old blocks A / B were in Dortmund's urban area, Block C on Castrop-Rauxler Grund.

history

The coal-fired power plant was built from 1951 to 1971 according to plans by the Essen industrial architect Fritz Schupp on the area of ​​the Gustav mine of the Adolf von Hansemann colliery in five stages. The power plant was originally operated by Gelsenkirchener Bergwerks-AG , followed by Bochumer Bergbau AG and VEBA Kraftwerke Ruhr AG (VKR). E.ON AG emerged from the merger of VEBA and Viag, which later spun off its conventional power plants into the Uniper Group. Most recently, the power plant belonged to the Hagedorn group of companies. However, the power plant was only acquired after the shutdown.

Unit C of the power plant was built from 1968 to 1971 and put into operation with an output of 340  MW . In a press release dated September 22, 1969, the new cooling tower with a height of 128 meters was called the highest in the world. The chimney was 210 m high, the boiler house 69 m.

Cooling towers of the old blocks (1959)

In 1975/1976 Veba Kraftwerke Ruhr (VKR) took over the Knepper power station and in 1977/1978 the five cooling towers of the old blocks were demolished. The expansion of the power plant by a 740 MW block was rejected after numerous discussions.

Units A and B, each with 64 MW, were shut down in 1990. In the early 1990s, Veba Kraftwerke Ruhr began with the partial demolition of units A / B, but the old machine house could not be dismantled because the coal conveyor belt for unit C runs in the upper half. Turbines and generators were sold, only the 150-t bridge crane was left in the building. The building is now used for storage. The DeNOx plant was built on Knepper in 1985/1986, and the flue gas desulphurisation plant (FGD) went into operation one year later . In 1990 the fly ash silo with a capacity of 40,000 tons went into operation.

View from the southwest (2007)

In 2002, thanks to further improvements to the turbine, a net output of 360 MW was achieved. In addition to electrical energy , the power plant supplied district heating to the neighboring districts, including customers who were previously supplied by the Castrop-Rauxel power plant .

The Knepper power plant and its workforce of 65 people were jointly responsible for the Castrop-Rauxel power plant , which at the end of the 1990s only served as a reserve power plant . It was shut down on June 15, 2001 and has since been demolished.

In mid-2010, the Ruhr Regional Association added the power plant to the route of industrial culture , themed route chemistry, glass and energy .

Scheme of the Knepper power plant operation

In December 2013, E.ON applied to the Federal Network Agency to shut down the power plant for economic reasons. This took place on December 23, 2014. The background was low electricity prices on the exchange, expiring electricity supply contracts with bulk buyers and the old age of the power plant.

The grid connection was made via the Pöppinghausen switchgear at the 380 kV maximum voltage level in the Amprion grid .

Blasting of the cooling tower and chimney of Block C (2019). The boiler house was blown up earlier.

In 2017, Uniper Kraftwerke GmbH put the 59 hectare power plant wasteland with 750,000 cubic meters of enclosed space up for sale nationally. LogPoint Ruhr GmbH (a 100% subsidiary of Hagedorn Holding GmbH from Gütersloh) was awarded the contract for the conveniently located area on the A2 / A42 / A45 motorways. The new owner will revitalize the site. Hagedorn Revital GmbH has been commissioned to make the area ready for construction and to develop permits for industry and commerce.

The demolition and renovation work required to dismantle the power plant began in summer 2018. On February 17, 2019, the cooling tower, the chimney and the boiler house were blown up. The entire revitalization process will last until 2021.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eon wants to shut down the coal-fired power plant in Dortmund-Mengede . In: Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung , December 20, 2013. Retrieved December 20, 2013.
  2. ↑ Federal Network Agency power plant list (nationwide; all network and transformer levels) as of July 2nd, 2012. ( Microsoft Excel file, 1.6 MB) Archived from the original on July 22, 2012 ; Retrieved July 21, 2012 .
  3. ↑ https://www.lokalkompass.de/castrop-rauxel/politik/abriss-des-kraftwerks-knepper-hat-begonnen-gelaende-soll-zum-logistikstandort-haben-d943290.html

Web links

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