Frimmersdorf Power Station

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The power plant Frimmersdorf in the city Grevenbroich was one of the largest lignite-fired power plants in Germany. It is located directly on Garzweiler mine in the Rhenish lignite mining area and originally had 16 power plant units. Because of closures between 2009 and 2012 are now only the two 300 MW units at the net, its closure is currently scheduled for 2018.

History

Power plant Frimmersdorf I

The first fired with lignite power plant in Frimmersdorf was built in 1926 with a capacity of 26 megawatts. 1954 this was - apart from some ancillary facilities - replaced by a larger power plant.

Power plant Frimmersdorf II

And two 300 -MW power plant units built - Between 1955 and 1970, in two Frimmersdorf 100 - twelve 150. 1988 received the 150 - and 300 - MW units, an FGD, while the two 100 - MW units on 30 June 1988 were shut down. Due to a turbine damage at Block H was the 2005 switched off and served henceforth as 'Spare Parts Factory ' for the other 150 - MW units. In addition, the three 150 -megawatt blocks C, D, and G were first transferred into the cold reserve and finally closed down in November 2011. The blocks I and K were shut down in March 2012. The shutdown of the remaining 150 - MW units is scheduled for 2012, when the currently under construction blocks of the power plant Neurath went into operation.

Fuel demand

According to self-reported by the operator RWE averaged 20.4 million tons of brown coal were burned between 2004 and 2006. Converted are about 647 kg of lignite per second.

Fireplaces

The 150 - MW units initiated your flue gases from three 160 meter high chimneys, with four blocks share a fireplace. The 300 MW unit P ( Paula ) derives its flue gases from a 200 meter high chimney and the 300 - MW unit Q ( source) derives its fumes over the approximately 110 -meter-high cooling tower from. In case of faults in the flue gas desulfurization block Q directs the flue gases as well as on the 200 meter high chimney.

Block Overview

Emissions

Power plant Critics at the power plant Frimmersdorf the high emissions of nitrogen oxides, sulfur oxides, mercury and particulate matter, generating from the cancer substances (nickel, cadmium, PAHs, dioxins and furans) may be present.

Moreover, in view of climate change are the CO2 emissions in the criticism. On published by the WWF in May 2007 List of klimaschädlichsten power plants in the EU the power plant Frimmersdorf ranked in 2006 to Rank 5 in Europe and ranked 3rd in Germany ( 1187 g CO2 per kilowatt-hour ) to the power plants Niederaußem and Jaenschwalde. In absolute terms, the power plant Frimmersdorf had in 2006 the fifth highest carbon dioxide emissions in Europe, according to the power station Belchatow (Poland), the power plants Niederaußem, Jaenschwalde ( Germany ) and the Drax power station (England). Nevertheless, the operator RWE rejected in negotiations with the NRW state government, citing the emissions trading decommissioning of old power station from.

The power plant Frimmersdorf reported the following emissions in the European PRTR pollutant register:

Other typical pollutant emissions were not reported because they from an annual minimum amount must be reported in the PRTR only, such as dioxins and furans from 0.0001 kg, cadmium from 10 kg, 50 kg of nickel, chromium and copper from 100 kg of lead from 200 kg, 200 kg from zinc, ammonia and nitrous oxide ( N2O) from 10.000 kg volatile organic compounds except methane (NMVOC ) of 100,000 kg.

The European Environment Agency has estimated the cost of the environment and human health of the 28,000 largest industrial facilities in Europe based on the reported in the PRTR emissions data with the scientific methods of the European Commission. After the power plant Frimmersdorf caused the ninth highest damage costs of all European industrial plants.

The Greenpeace report "Death from the vent " concludes that the plant Frimmersdorf in 2010 for the loss of 37 182 working days, or 1,754 years of life equivalent to 164 deaths per year, is responsible. In the study, the 67 largest coal-fired power plants have been studied in Germany, where the lignite-fired power plants because of their large emissions of particulate matter, sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides to include harmful to human health. The power plant was Frimmersdorf 2010 to 5th place