Nijmegen – Power Plant (Electriciteits Centrale) v1.0
Specially for VFR flying Netherlands.
Nijmegen Landmarks.
Gelderland power plant
The Gelderland Power Plant was a coal / biomass-fired power plant in the Dutch city of Nijmegen. The power plant is owned by the French multinational company Engie, Electrabel for 2012. [1] The production capacity was 585 MW. The company has been at the mouth of the Maas-Waal canal since 1936; the power plant in its current form was opened in 1982. In the night of Sunday 20 to Monday 21 December 2015, the Gelderland Power Plant was decommissioned. [2]
The plant was the first plant in the Netherlands with a flue gas desulphurization installation. This installation resulted in a reduction in sulfur emissions of 85 to 90 percent. In 1989 a so-called LowNOx burner installation was put into operation to reduce the formation of nitrogen oxides by about 50 percent.
In 1994 a so-called DeNox installation was also completed. Another 80 percent of the nitrogen oxides were captured in this with the aid of a catalyst. Large “dust collectors”, electrostatic filters, also removed about 99.9% of the fly ash particles from the flue gases before they leave the plant through the chimney.
Art on chimney
In 2006 paintings were applied to the chimney by the Nijmegen artist Corrie Kuijs. It concerns five symbols (‘Boiler installation’, ‘Generator’, ‘DeNox installation’, ‘Varen’ and ‘Stekker’), which represent the generation of electricity and the shadow side of energy consumption, namely the depletion of fossil fuels such as natural gas and coal.
My personal history.
I remember this plant when I was young and still lived in Nijmegen.
Periodly (specially in the beginning) they blow off steam, that was a normal procedure.
You could hear it from distance, it was always a mysterious sound.
