Massaboden power plant
Massaboden power plant | ||
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Coordinates | 644 130 / 131342 | |
country | Switzerland | |
place | Bitsch VS | |
Waters | Rhone | |
power plant | ||
owner | Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) | |
construction time | 1915-1916 | |
technology | ||
Bottleneck performance | 7.2 megawatts | |
Average height of fall |
53.7 or 43.2 m | |
Expansion flow | 5.0-7.0 m³ / s | |
Standard work capacity | 15 million kWh / year | |
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The power plant Massaboden the Swiss Railways (SBB) is a hydroelectric power plant , the traction power generated. It is located in the town of Bitsch VS . The generator hall contains a reinforced concrete roof structure . It was built in 1915 and 1916 by the architecture firm Fritschi & Zangerl from Winterthur according to plans by the Zurich company Guhl & Geiger . The engineer F. Rothpletz, who was also responsible for the Simplon Tunnel II, took over the construction management . The power station primarily supplied electrical energy for the Simplon line between Brig and Iselle .
The power station draws its water from the Rhone. The system has a gross gradient of 53.7 meters, the effectively usable gradient is 43.2 meters. In 1949 the amount of water used was between 5.0 and 7.0 m³ / s, which has meanwhile been increased to up to 21.5 m³ / s. In 1949 the plant fed an average annual energy volume of 15 million kWh into the grid.
The output from the generators is 7.2 MW.
See also
Web links
- H. Eggenberger, A. Dänzer: The electricity works Massaboden near Brig Switzerland. Federal Railways. (PDF 2.4 MB) Schweizerische Bauzeitung, Volume 73 (1919), Issue 24, pp. 275–278 , accessed on November 29, 2013 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Massaboden hydropower plant. Retrieved December 15, 2019 .
- ↑ Guide through the Swiss water and electricity industry , published by the Swiss Water Management Association and the Association of Swiss Electricity Companies, 1949 Volume 1, page 163
- ↑ Swiss hydropower statistics 2007