Fridingen hydropower plant

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Danube power plant Fridingen
Hydropower plant Fridingen Kraftwerkgebaeude.jpg
location
Danube power plant Fridingen (Baden-Württemberg)
Danube power plant Fridingen
Coordinates 48 ° 1 '48 "  N , 8 ° 56' 14"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 1 '48 "  N , 8 ° 56' 14"  E
place Fridingen
Waters Danube
Kilometers of water km 2728,653
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power plant
operator EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg
Start of operation 1923
Listed since Yes
technology
Bottleneck performance 1 megawatt
Average
height of fall 		16 m
Expansion flow 10 m³ / s
Standard work capacity 4.4 million kWh / year
Turbines 3 Francis turbines
Generators 3
Others

The hydropower plant Fridingen in Fridingen on the Danube in the district of Tuttlingen in Baden-Württemberg united in a power house the machines of a hydroelectric power station of Bara and a loop power plant of the Danube . Until 1961, a pumped storage power plant was also part of the power plant.

Danube power plant Fridingen

The Danube power plant Fridingen of EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg is a diversion power plant on the Danube and went into operation in 1923. The associated weir in the Danube is located around river kilometer 2728.6 and consists of five fields with slide gates. The generators on the three Francis turbines generate up to 4.4 GWh of electrical energy per year  , with an installed electrical output of 1.2  MW . The fall height is up to 16.2 m.

Danube tunnel Fridingen

The Donaustollen Fridingen is a diversion channel of the Danube and was built in the 1920s in order to be able to use the approximately 16 meter gradient of the approximately eleven kilometer long flow section of the Danube loop in a hydropower plant. The total length of the artificially created watercourse with the water body code GKZ 1,117,120,000,000 is 1.919 km.

The first 250 m long section from the inlet at Danube kilometer 2728,653, about 50 m above the Danube weir in Fridingen ( ⊙ ), to the machine house of the hydropower plant is an open channel. From the machine house, the water flows 1.4 km in the mine-built 2.6 m high and 2 m wide tunnel. From the eastern portal of the tunnel to the outlet back into the Danube in the area of ​​the municipality of Beuron at river kilometer 2717.784 there is an open channel of 250 m length.

Bear power plant

In the Bärakraftwerk, the gradient between an impoundment of the river and the nearby confluence with the Danube was used from 1915, thus achieving an output of up to 70 kW. This could generate up to 200  MWh per year. The machines are no longer operational but have been preserved as of 2017.

pumped storage power plant

The expansion by a pumped storage power plant with 500 kW took place in 1922. After the test plant built by Voith in Heidenheim an der Brenz in 1908 and the plant built by Gminder in Neckartenzlingen in 1914, the Fridingen pumped storage power plant was the third pumped storage power plant in Germany . It was the first system of its kind to be built in Germany by a public electricity supply company. The storage basin with a volume of 32,000 cubic meters was located on the Gansnest mountain nose, around 170 meters above the Fridingen power plant. The pumped storage power plant was shut down in 1960/1961 and largely dismantled.

Web links

Commons : Wasserkraftwerk Fridingen on the Danube  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hydraulic analysis of the flow conditions to the Fridingen hydropower plant. Technische Universität Dresden, 2011, accessed on February 11, 2017 .
  2. ↑ a b Danube loop provides electricity. Südkurier, December 2, 2005, accessed on February 11, 2017 .
  3. ↑ a b c d Fridingen hydropower plant is to be upgraded. EnBW, February 15, 2016, accessed on February 11, 2017 .
  4. ↑ EnBW Kraftwerke AG plans to renovate and expand the Fridingen hydropower plant. EnBW, April 23, 2012, accessed on February 11, 2017 .
  5. ↑ LUBW data and map service
  6. ^ Regional Council Freiburg (Ed.): Draft WFD TBG accompanying documentation TBG 60 . April 2015, p. 14 ( online [PDF]).
  7. ↑ bruender.de: Pump storage system from the former company Gminder. Retrieved February 22, 2017
  8. ^ The power plants in Fridingen . In: Heimatkreis Fridingen eV (Hrsg.): Collected essays on the history of Fridingen . tape September 18 , 2005, p. 38 .