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Baudour
Location: Hainaut
Operator: Electrabel
Configuration: 1 X 116 MW
Operation: 1960 (ret 1997)
Fuel: coal
Boiler supplier: Sulzer
T/G supplier: Escher Wyss
EPC: Electrabel
Quick facts: In May 1955, Interborinage was formed by local power company
Societe Intercommunale Belge d'Electricite and six local coal mines to
build a new power station to burn lower-quality fuels produced in the
area. The new power station went online on 24 Feb 1960 with some of the
highest steam temperatures in Europe. Main steam flow was 340 t/h and
turbine steam conditions were 170 bar/600C/570C. The plant was connected
to the 150kV grid. In 1969, the progressive closure of local mines led to
modification of the boiler to burn natural gas or coke-oven gas from the
former Cockerill-Sambre Carcoke works in Zeebrugge. The three fuels could
be used simultaneously. In early 1997, the Carcoke plant was closed and
after 37 years of operation and 280mn MWh of production, the power station
was closed. On 30 Jun 1999, the cooling tower was demolished followed a
year later by the boiler and turbine hall.
Photograph courtesy of Jean-Pol
Samain (www.borain.be)
Posted 16 Dec 2007 |
Peronnes
Location: Hainaut
Operator: Electrabel
Configuration: 1 X 125 MW
Operation: 1959 (ret 2000)
Fuel: coal, natural gas, fuel oil
Boiler supplier: Stein, CMI
T/G supplier: Siemens, ACEC
Quick facts: This was the first large-size
steam-electric plant in Belgium not built on a river.
Photograph courtesy of
Charbonnages du Hainaut
Posted 23 Sep 2007 |
Quaregnon
Location: Hainaut
Operator: Electrabel
Configuration: 19.2 MW, 1 X 65 MW
Operation: 1925-1932 (ret)
Fuel: coal, natural gas
Boiler supplier: Wod-Lopulco-Cockerill
T/G supplier: ??
Quick facts: The first phase of this power station was
built on the initiative of the local coal mines. In Feb 1930, work on a
new 65-MW began and this started up in Jan 1932 with three boilers
totaling 100 t/h of steaming capacity. The power station was demolished in
Jul 1985.
Photograph courtesy of Jean-Pol
Samain (www.borain.be)
Posted 16 Dec 2007 |
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Ruien
Location: Belgium
Operator: Electrabel
Configuration: 2 X 60 MW (ret), 2 X 130 MW, 2 X 300 MW
Operation: 1958-1974
Fuel: bituminous coal, natural gas, fuel oil
Boiler supplier: Sulzer,
CMI
T/G supplier: Escher Wyss, BBC
Quick facts: Ruien is on the Scheldt
10km upstream from Oudenaarde. Over about 20yrs, the plant expanded to
become the largest conventional power station in the country. A 45-MW
topping gas turbine was added to Unit-5 in 1998 followed in Jan 2003 by a
small atmospheric wood gasifier. This can supply about 17-MWe equivalent
of input fuel to the main boiler.
Photograph by orins (panoramio)
Posted 12 Apr 2009 |
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Schelle 20
Location: Belgium
Operator: Electrabel
Configuration: 1 X 60 MW
Operation: 1932 (ret 1974)
Fuel: coal
Boiler supplier: ??
T/G supplier: Siemens
Quick facts: This machine built by Siemens-Schuckertwerke
at the Schelle power station in Antwerp was the world’s largest 3000rpm
turbine-generator when completed.
Photograph courtesy of
Siemens
Posted 4 Jul 2005 |
