Datteln Power Station
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| Datteln Power Station | |
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 Left the old retired units 1-3, right the new unit 4 with the new chimney cooling tower (180 m tall) | |
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| Official name | Kraftwerk Datteln |
| Country | Germany |
| Location | Datteln,North Rhine-Westphalia |
| Coordinates | 51°37′57″N 7°20′27″E / 51.63250°N 7.34083°E |
| Status | Operational |
| Commission date | 1964 |
| Construction cost | US$1.1 billion |
| Owner | Uniper |
| Thermal power station | |
| Primary fuel | Coal |
| Turbine technology | Steam turbine |
| Site area | 69 hectares (170 acres) |
| Cooling towers | 1 (operational) |
| Cogeneration? | Yes |
| Thermal capacity | 2600 MW (380 MW district heating) |
| Power generation | |
| Units operational | 1 x 1100 MW (gross) |
| Units decommissioned | 2 × 100 MW 1 × 119 MW |
| Nameplate capacity | 1052 MW |
| External links | |
| Website | www.uniper.energy |
| Commons | Related media on Commons |
Datteln Power Station (German: Kraftwerk Datteln) is a modern coal-fired thermal power station in Datteln, Recklinghausen, 12 km north of Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It comprises four units with a total capacity of approximately 1,419 MW gross. Units 1-3 were built between 1964 and 1969 and were decommissioned in 2014. A characteristic of this power station is the fact that the most recently built unit, Unit 4, does not have a waste gas flue. Instead, the desulphurised flue gases are expelled using the updraught from the existing 180 m (590 ft) cooling tower. The power station is operated by Uniper.
The plant employs about 200 full-time workers and 300 external jobs.
History
[edit]About 6,300 people participated in the construction of Unit 4.
Technology
[edit]Unit 4 delivers also 1,000 GW·hth yearly of district heating in addition to power generation, a supply sufficient for 100,000 households in the Castrop-Rauxel and Dortmund-Bodelschwingh areas.[1] Of Unit 4 1,052 MW net generation capacity, 413 MW are delivered to Deutsche Bahn grid, powering its railway system. The 50 Hz electricity is converted into 16.7 Hz frequency for the train system and fed to Deutsche Bahn's 110kV high-voltage grid.[2]
The plant 69 hectares (170 acres) area is separated in two sections, 11 ha (unit 1–3) on left side and 57 ha (unit 4) on the right side of the Dortmund–Ems Canal, which is used to deliver hard coal by barges. Closed conveyor belts then transport the fuel to the coal storage facility. Closed conveyor belts also take the coal to the coal bunker, from which it is ground to a fine powder using five coal pulverisers. The fine powder is dried using hot air and then blown into the combustion chamber. Burning occurs at 1,300 °C (2,370 °F), boiling water into steam, which is passed into the high pressure turbines, followed by a medium pressure and two low-pressure turbines. The turbines rotate at 3,000 revolutions per minute, as the generator. Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems supplied the steam generator. The boiler is made of a high creep rupture strength material (T24, developed by Vallourec & Mannesmann), achieving reheat live steam temperatures over 600 °C (1,112 °F). Alstom supplied the steam turbine set, the same 1,100 MW set planned for the scrapped Unit 6 at Staudinger power plant and a proposed Port of Antwerp power plant in Belgium.[3]
Unit 4 is equipped with an advanced multi-step flue gas purification system, which eliminates nitrogen oxides, dust and sulphur from the flue gas. Nitrogen oxide is washed first followed by dust and finally sulphur.
Unit Information
[edit]The Power Station consists of 4 units, of which only Unit 4 is operational.
| Unit | Fuel | Net Output | Commissioned | Decommissioned |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hard Coal | 95 MW | 1964 | Feb 2014 |
| 2 | Hard Coal | 95 MW | 1965 | Feb 2014 |
| 3 | Hard Coal | 116 MW | 1969 | Feb 2014 |
| 4 | Hard Coal | 1052 MW | 2020 | 2038 (planned) |
External links
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- (in German) Dispute over Datteln coal power plant
- 7.6 Datteln 4 – a symbol for Germany’s misguided climate policy
- Permit for Germany’s newest coal-fired power plant was invalid, court rules
References
[edit]- ^ "New construction of the Datteln district heating pipeline". max-boegl.de. Archived from the original on 26 February 2021. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
- ^ Wrede, Holger; Umbricht, N. (November 2009). "Development of a 413 MW railway power supply converter". 2009 35th Annual Conference of IEEE Industrial Electronics. pp. 3587–3592. doi:10.1109/IECON.2009.5415153. ISBN 978-1-4244-4648-3. S2CID 27459383.
- ^ "Mega machine for Maasvlakte". Modern Power Systems. 1 July 2009. Archived from the original on 20 July 2020. Retrieved 25 January 2022.
- ^ "Kraftwerk Datteln 4". Uniper (in German). Retrieved 2022-01-25.