Vemork
| Vemork | ||
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| Coordinates | 59 ° 52 '16 " N , 8 ° 29' 30" E | |
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 Norway
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| place | Rjukan | |
| Height upstream | 104 m | |
| power plant | ||
| construction time | 1907 to 1911 | |
| Start of operation | 1911 | |
| Listed since | July 2015 | |
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| Turbines | Ateliers Piccard, Pictet & Cie , Geneva | |
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Vemork is the name of a hydroelectric plant near Rjukan (Municipality Tinn ) in Norwegian Fylke Vestfold og Telemark .
history
The power station was built by Norsk Hydro from 1907 to 1911. In 1911, electricity generation began in Vemork; at that time it was the largest power plant in the world. The 104 meter high Rjukanfossen waterfall was made usable for the power plant . The turbine systems came from the Ateliers Piccard, Pictet & Cie in Geneva , the generators from Escher Wyss and each produced an output of 16,400 hp at 250 revolutions per minute. The power station was connected to the Norwegian railway network with the Rjukanbanen . Later, a factory for the production of hydrogen by means of the electrolysis of water, the by-product of which is heavy water, was built next to the power station building; this building was demolished in the 1970s. The hydrogen plant was during the Second World War, the scene of Operation Gunnerside , one of several acts of sabotage by the Norwegian resistance fighters and British allies, with the aim of the Nazis in the production of the expected development of an atomic bomb required heavy water to prevent.
Today the Norwegian Industrial Workers Museum is located in the power station building . A new, underground plant with a rated output of 204 MW has been used for power generation since 1971. The facilities around Vemork, including the railway line and the previous accommodation, were added to the UNESCO World Heritage Site together with Notodden in July 2015 .
Power plant with heavy water production building (1935)
Historical samples of heavy water produced in Vemork
Turbines at the Vemork power station
See also
literature
- Rjukan / Notodden and Odda / Tyssedal Industrial Heritage Sites, Hydro Electrical Powered Heavy Industries with associated Urban Settlements (Company Towns) and Transportation System - description of the region to which Vemork belongs and which is nominated for the UNESCO World Heritage Site and its history at unesco.org
- Neal Bascomb , The Winter Fortress: The Epic Mission to Sabotage Hitler's Atomic Bomb , Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston 2016, ISBN 978-0-544-36805-7 , on Operation Gunnerside's sabotage
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ The water turbines and their regulators in Switzerland. National Exhibition Bern 1914 Schweizerische Bauzeitung, Issue 24, Volume 63/64 (1914)
- ^ Vemork power station. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on January 21, 2019 ; accessed on March 14, 2019 . 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.
- ^ Rjukan – Notodden Industrial Heritage Site. Entry in the UNESCO list. Retrieved July 6, 2016 .
