Anglesea Power Station

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The power plant Anglesea is a lignite-fired power plant, which in Australia is about 100 kilometers from Melbourne in Anglesea, Victoria. It claimed an area of ​​5 square kilometers of Anglesea Heath, a major for its biological diversity and a total of 67 square kilometer nature reserve, which is registered in the Australian Register of the National Estate.

The power plant is a steam turbine and the generator connected 150 MW capacity ready and delivers 40 % of it to the nearby Point Henry aluminum smelter, Alcoa World Alumina and Chemicals ( AWAC ). The power plant was put into operation on 20 March 1969, fired brown coal from the open pit adjacent to the power plant, which is transported on a 3 kilometer long private road trucks to the plant. The overburden is deposited and filled on the mining site with conveyor belts that are loaded with wheel loaders and trucks.

1955 were carried out by the Roche Brothers at Anglesea test holes, which operated a mine in Wensleydale, whose coal reserves exhausted. An extensive coal deposit was discovered two kilometers north of Anglesea, their degradation began in 1059 to provide lignite to industry and institutions in the area of Geelong. The mining rights were taken over in 1961 by the Western Mining Corporation to supply the planned power plant of AWCA. The Act of 1961 (hereinafter referred Aluminum Agreement) guarantees AWAC an exclusive 50 -year rights for the mining and exploration of deposits over an area of ​​7,350 ha in this region. After further drilling by WMC in the east of the original mine and closer to the power plant, a 50 million -ton coal deposit was discovered. The thickness of this coal camp is about 140 meters, with a mineable reserve of 70 million tons in a high altitude and 90 million tons in a deeper layer geliegenden. In 1992, the ratio of overburden to coal an average coal thickness of 27 meters, a ratio of 2.5 to 1

2005 about 35 million Tonnes of coal were mined, of which approximately 1.1 million Tonnes of lignite were annually burned in the steam turbine of the power plant, which requires 144 tonnes pulverized lignite in an hour to generate electricity. The Anglesea coal has a high calorific value of electricity generation, when it is mixed with other lignite. However, it performs a high sulfur content of 3%, leading to a high emission of sulfur dioxide ( SO2) and pollutes the environment. The Carbon Monitoring for Action estimates that the power plant about 1.21 million tons of greenhouse gas discharges annually each year as a result of his Braunkohleverfeuerung.

The Anglesea power plant draws cooling water from six underground artesian wells, drilled and were fed by rainwater.