Record briquette
Record briquettes are a branded fuel item made from lignite from the Lusatian lignite district .
Production and nature
The Lausitz record briquette is a solid fuel made from crushed, dried and extruded lignite into briquettes . The energy source is used as a heat source in traditional coal stoves and modern fireplaces such as wood-burning stoves, tiled stoves and fireplaces. The briquette is also used as fuel in industrial firing processes. Record briquettes are produced today in the briquette factories at the Schwarze Pump sites in the south of Brandenburg ( Lausitz Energie Bergbau AG ) and Deuben in the south-east of Saxony-Anhalt ( Mitteldeutsche Braunkohlengesellschaft ). The lignite is extracted in the Welzow-Süd and Nochten opencast mines .
history
The name "Rekord" was registered as a briquette brand in the GDR in 1961 and came from an ideas competition. This was won by the engineer Hansjochem Hampel, operations manager of the Wildgrube and Domsdorf briquette factories from 1961 to 1968. Since then, all east German briquette factories have been producing under this uniform brand name. To identify the origin, dots were applied to the face during the pressing process ( TGL 13134/02). After the energy policy restructuring as a result of German reunification , briquette production was only continued in two factories in the east: Briquettes from the Lusatian lignite mining area could be recognized by the stamped "L". Briquettes from the Central German lignite area bore the addition "P" for phoenix (Brifa Phönix in Mumsdorf / Thuringia). In 2003 the Mitteldeutsche Braunkohlengesellschaft (MIBRAG) stopped producing briquettes due to the high sulfur content of Central German lignite. Since then, record briquettes have been produced exclusively in Schwarze Pump . In 2011, briquette production was resumed in Deuben - initially as a contract production for Rheinbraun with Rhenish coal. Since 2018, record briquettes have also been produced in Deuben ("D") with Lausitz coal.
Formats
Record briquette in the format half-stone H105
Record briquette in the bundle stone format
Record briquette in the format Ganzstein G156
Record briquettes in the V52 quarter stone format
Depending on the area of use and application, briquettes are produced in different shapes and sizes. Record briquettes are now produced in four different formats: As a whole bundle brick (brick length approx. 182 mm, with a flat hollow / flat hump on the long sides of the profile); as a loose whole stone (length approx. 156 mm); as a half stone (approx. 105 mm) and as a quarter stone (approx. 52 mm). For this purpose, the briquetting charcoal is pressed through differently shaped press channels with a correspondingly shaped punch under high pressure.
similar products
- The Union briquette is the counterpart of the Rhenish lignite mining area .
literature
- Maximilian Claudius Noack: Briquette - the heavy energy package . In: Sächsisches Industriemuseum, Lausitzer Bergbaumuseum Knappenrode, Vattenfall Europe Mining AG (Hrsg.): Fiery stories - of ovens, fire and briquettes . Großenhain 2004, p. 24-35 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ The REKORD brand. Lusatian REKORD briquettes. In: brikett-rekord.com. Lausitz Energie Bergbau AG, accessed on February 2, 2015 .
- ↑ Brown coal: Briquette production in Deuben is discontinued. In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung , November 27, 2003.
- ↑ Burgenlandkreis: Briquettes roll off the conveyor belt in Deuben. In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung , May 11, 2011.
- ↑ The dead are pressing briquette production with technology from the pre-war period for longer. In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung , May 10, 2018.