Spherical gas container (Wuppertal)
| Sphere gas container in Wuppertal | |
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| The view of the spherical gas container from Industriestrasse in east direction | |
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| State : | Germany |
| Region : | North Rhine-Westphalia |
| City : | Wuppertal |
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| Construction: | 1958 |
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| Diameter : | 47.3 m |
| Usable volume : | 270,000 m³ |
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7,000 m² surface |
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The spherical gas tank in Wuppertal (also Möbeck gas tank , as the Wuppertaler Stadtwerke is called) in the Wuppertal district of Vohwinkel was built in 1958 by the MAN plant in Gustavsburg and was at the time the largest spherical gas tank in the world.
description
The gas container is located near the Sonnborner Kreuz in an industrial area which, with around 200 inhabitants, is also the statistical quarter of Wuppertal under the name “ Industriestraße ”, at the intersection of Industriestraße and Essener Straße . It is operated by the Wuppertal public utilities , for which it was built in 1958. The sphere with a diameter of 47.3 meters was made from 30 mm thick sheet steel and has a volume of around 55,000 m³ and a surface area of around 7,000 m². The storage capacity is a maximum of 270,000 m³ (normal cubic meters) of natural gas, making the structure the largest spherical gas tank in Germany. In the mid-1980s it was still listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the largest spherical gas container in Europe. The transfer station supplies 75 percent of the Wuppertal city area and was modernized at the beginning of 2005 in an eight-month construction phase for 850,000 euros.
The view of the spherical gas container from Essener Strasse in west direction
The gas container is visible from afar
Wuppertaler Quartier Industriestraße with the Möbeck gas tank
Gas expansion turbine plant
There is also a gas expansion turbine system (GEA) on the site , which was commissioned in June 2002. The GEA serves to reduce the pressure of the gas coming from the transfer station for natural gas, which is also located there. This releases volume work , the energy required to compress the gas, which is released again when it is relaxed and which is used to generate electricity .
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ The spherical gas container in the WSW picture archive - not available on June 8, 2016 ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ The spherical gas container in Wuppertal - not available on June 8, 2016
- ↑ History of Wuppertaler Stadtwerke AG - not available on June 8, 2016 ( memento of the original from July 24, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ The new Guinness Book of Records 1987. Ullstein Verlag, Frankfurt, ISBN 3-550-07741-6 , p. 226
- ↑ WSW customer magazine ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) 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. March 2005 (PDF) - not available on June 8, 2016
- ↑ WSW customer magazine ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. November 2002 (PDF) - not available on June 8, 2016
Web links
- Sphere gas container (Wuppertal) as a 3D model in the 3D warehouse of SketchUp - "Gas bell Vohwinkel"
- Möbeck gas pressure expansion turbine: Excess energy used sensibly Customer magazine for commercial customers, 1/2005 (PDF) - page no longer available on June 8, 2016.
- Sphere gas container on Essener Strasse - website no longer accessible on June 8, 2016.
Coordinates: 51 ° 14 ′ 45 ″ N , 7 ° 5 ′ 9 ″ E