Experimental Power Plant in XIX Century Building

An unusual cogeneration plant in a XIX century building has long served as a testing ground for the institute, where its developments were tested in practice. But the golden years of scientific and technological breakthroughs are gone, and the fate of the plant is doomed. Let's take a look at this industrial treasure.

 

The teleporter takes us to a corridor with pipes and cables.

We open the doors next to it. Behind them, we see abandoned research facilities.

A wind tunnel.

Workshops.

Papers.

Here for some reason, somebody bred hamsters.

Going up the stairs, we open the first door there and see complete decay.

There is so much dust here that it is better not to walk at all to avoid breathing it in.

One floor is one room. Above that is the laboratory.

On the third floor is the explosion and combustion lab. This ball on a stand is an explosion chamber for fuel detonation research.

The aerosol spray unit.

The heat exchange unit, for which a separate space was needed.

At the opposite end of the basement is the water treatment laboratory.

Let's go back to the basement. It connects the entire power plant.

The pipes. Water runs through them to the boilers, turns into steam, and goes back toward the turbines.

Part of the basement was once fenced off and a simulation booth was built inside for processes involving steam turbines. However, it has now been dismantled.

The turbine is buried under garbage.

The arrows all over the place lead to the exit.

Water pumps.

From time to time they turn on. Not quite sure why, if the plant is not functioning.

We go to a basement under the machine hall.

There are more pipes and humming and clinging valves, pumps, transformers, and automatics.

It's time to go out to see the turbine hall.

Above the hall, you can see a 20-ton crane, used to pull the turbines.

Very beautiful XIX-century architecture.

On the right is the control room, where the workers are on duty. Luckily now they are sleeping.

There are three turbines in the machinery room: two smaller and one larger. There must have been a fourth, but it was dismantled.

We go out to see the steam generation shop with boilers.

One boiler.

The difference between this power plant and the usual ones is in the boilers. All of them are not similar to each other and differ in their design.

The institute's developments were tested in practice here.

You can observe the history of the development of thermal power by moving from one boiler to another.

The boilers developed by the institute were coal-fired. They are not in demand now. A third or half of the units have already been dismantled.

The last working boiler.

Let's take a last look at the steam generation shop.

And the turbine hall from the top.

The night ends, so does this post.

Until we meet again!