Majuba power plant
| Majuba power plant | |||
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| Coordinates | 27 ° 6 '2 " S , 29 ° 46' 17" E | ||
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 South Africa
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| Type | Steam power plant | ||
| Primary energy | Fossil energy | ||
| fuel | coal | ||
| power | 4.11 GW | ||
| operator | Eskom | ||
| Start of operations | 1996 | ||
| Website | Eskom | ||
The Majuba Power Station (English: Majuba Power Station ) is a coal fired power plant of the state-owned South African power utility Eskom with an installed capacity of 4.11 GW . It is part of the country's base load supply and provides around 10% of the network's capacity. As South Africa's second largest power plant, it is only slightly smaller than the Kendal power plant .
investment
Located about 200 km southwest of Johannesburg between the cities of Volksrust and Amersfoort in the Mpumalanga province , the plant consists of six blocks that went into operation between 1996 and 2001. The first three blocks with an output of 657 MW have direct dry cooling with air-cooled condensers , the three other blocks with an output of 712 MW have wet cooling towers . All units are equipped with turbines and generators from GEC , the boilers come from L. & C. Steinmüller .
The coal mine intended to supply the power station could not be put into operation due to geological problems, so that other ways had to be found to supply the power station with coal. 1,160,000 tons of coal are burned every month from 15 different suppliers. Two thirds of the coal is delivered by truck, which requires up to 700 trips a day. The remaining deliveries are transported by rail to the power plant, where the trains are emptied using a rotary tipper system. The power plant is accessed from the Johannesburg – Durban railway line and is also to be accessed from the north of Ermelo with the Majuba Rail Project .
Since January 2007, up to 15,000 standard cubic meters of synthesis gas per hour from an underground gasification pilot plant have been burned in Block 4 of the power plant.
In November 2014, one of the plant's three coal silos collapsed, which led to reduced operation of the power plant until February 2015, which, along with other incidents, was the cause of numerous power outages in South Africa.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Majuba Power Station. Eskom, accessed September 17, 2015 .
- ^ A b Coal-Fired Plants in South Africa: Majuba. (No longer available online.) In: Power Plant of the World. Archived from the original on December 18, 2009 ; accessed on September 17, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Majuba power station. News24, accessed October 4, 2015 .
- ↑ a b Safiri (Pty) Ltd: Rail Infrastructure. Witbank - Ogies - Welgedag - Apex. In: Mpumalanga Province Freight Data Bank. Retrieved October 4, 2015 .
- ^ Eskom's Underground Coal Gasification Project. In: Eskom. May 6, 2008, accessed September 17, 2015 .
- ↑ eNCA: Silo collapse blamed for load-shedding | eNCA. In: www.enca.com. Retrieved September 17, 2015 .
