Coal-Fired Plants in Denmark

 

 

Avedore
Location: Denmark
Operator: Energi E2
Configuration: 1 X 250 MW, 1 X 570 MW
Operation: 1990-2002
Fuel: natural gas, coal, biomass, oil
Boiler supplier: Deutsche Babcock, BWE
T/G supplier: BBC, Ansaldo
Quick facts: Avedore supplies electricity to Eastern Denmark's grid and heat to Greater Copenhagen's district heating network. Avedore-2 has a supercritical boiler with two topping gas turbines from Rolls-Royce. There is a separate biomass combustion unit.

Photograph courtesy of Energi E2
Posted 27 Jan 2002

Asnaes
Location: Denmark
Operator: Energi E2
Configuration: 2 X 150 MW, 2 X 260 MW, 1 X 672 MW
Operation: 1959-1981
Fuel: hard coal, orimulsion, oil
Boiler supplier: BWE, BPL
T/G supplier: BBC
Quick facts: For years, Asnaes was Denmark's largest power station, although although today only Unit-5 is in operation. Asnaes also supplies heat for the local municipality and process heat for neighboring companies, some of which also use combustion byproducts for their raw material inputs.

Photograph courtesy of Energi E2
Posted 13 Jan 2002

Ensted-8
Location: Denmark
Operator: Elsam
Configuration: 1 X 625 MW
Operation: 1959-1981
Fuel: hard coal, orimulsion, oil
Boiler supplier: Volund
T/G supplier: Siemens
Quick facts:
Ensted-8 is a CHP unit designed to fire hard coal and oil. The unit has ESPs, a wet limestone scrubber from FLS Miljo, and an SCR system retrofit in 1

996 by a consortium of ABB, Deutsche Babcock, and Haldor Topsoe. A biomass boiler was added in 1998.

Photograph courtesy of Elsam A/S
Posted 3 Jan 2003

Esbjerg
Location: Denmark
Operator: Elsam
Configuration: 1 X 131 MW, 1 X 257 MW, 1 X 350 MW
Operation: 1965-1992
Fuel: hard coal, oil
Boiler supplier: BPL, Stein
T/G supplier: BBC, ABB
Quick facts:
Block-3 at the new Esbjerg power station has a capacity of 350 MWe and 500 MJ/S heat. Jesper Lahn was the architect for the 78m boiler building and boiler support structure in collaboration with Danish consultancies ISC and Techwise A/S. In the rear are Blocks 1&2 (131 MW coal-fired and 257 MW oil-fired, respectively), both now out of service.

Photograph courtesy of Elsam A/S
Posted 3 Jan 2003

Fyns
Location: Denmark
Operator: Elsam
Configuration: 1 X 285 MW, 1 X 443 MW
Operation: 1974-1991
Fuel: hard coal, gas, oil
Boiler supplier: BWE
T/G supplier: Siemens

Photograph courtesy of Elsam A/S
Posted 3 Jan 2003

Nordjyllands
Location: Denmark
Operator: Elsam
Configuration: 1 X 137 MW, 1 X 300 MW, 1 X 414 MW
Operation: 1977-1998
Fuel: hard coal, gas, oil
Boiler supplier: Steinmuller, BWE
T/G supplier: AEG, Siemens, MAN, G-A
Quick facts:  Unit-3 is an ultra-supercritical unit, and at approximately 47% thermal efficiency was considered the most efficient coal-fired unit in the world at the time of its completion.

Photograph courtesy of Elsam A/S
Posted 4 Jan 2003

Stignaes
Location: Denmark
Operator: Energi E2
Configuration: 1 X 170 MW, 1 X 285 MW
Operation: 1966-1970
Fuel: coal, oil
Boiler supplier: BWE
T/G supplier: BBC
Quick facts: Stigsnaes is a CHP power station. In 1999, an FLS Miljo wet limestone FGD system was installed on Unit-2 and removes almost 98% of the SO2 in the flue gas.

Photograph courtesy of Energi E2
Posted 10 Jan 2004

 

Studstrup
Location: Denmark
Operator: Elsam
Configuration: 2 X 375 MW
Operation: 1984-1985
Fuel: hard coal, oil, biomass
Boiler supplier: Deutsche Babcock
T/G supplier: BBC
Quick facts:
Studstrup is a CHP plant on Kalo Vig north of Aarhus. Units 3&4 were the first Danish supercritical sets.

Photograph courtesy of Elsam A/S
Posted 3 Jan 2003

Abbreviations: BWE = Burmeister & Wain, BBC = Brown Boveri, BPL = Babcock Power Ltd, CHP = combined-heat-and-power, SCR = selective catalytic reduction, T/G = turbine generator

Data: industcards, Platts UDI World Electric Power Plants Data Base

Updated 03/06/08

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