Constructivism-Style Power Plant

I've already had a post from a vintage power plant. And now I'll show you another power plant built in 1926, a bigger one.

 

The power plant is almost a hundred years old. The construction started in 1923. Three years later, the first stage with a 5MW turbine generator was put into operation. Three more 11 MW generators were installed in the early 1930s, as well as a small boiler was replaced with four larger boilers. The power plant was built in the style of industrial constructivism and is recognized as an architectural monument. The regional branch of the power company wants to organize a museum there, but in recent years all attempts have been unsuccessful.

The equipment was supplied by the German companies Schihau and Koblitz. The power plant operated until the beginning of the 21st century without replacing the boiler and turbine equipment. After that, it was first transformed into a boiler house (the generators were shut down), and then it was fully closed. First, the power plant operated on peat, which was transported by cars along the trestle to the third floor, where thrown to hoppers.

The roof is crowned by two chimneys.

This is an older version of a power plant. It differs from modern ones in its design. Here, electricity is generated only by turbines driven by steam heated in the boiler, while at modern thermal power plants with gas turbines, it is also generated during gas combustion.

Unfortunately, turbines did not make it to this day. They were destroyed to take copper from them.

Only steel pipes were left.

Heat Exchangers.

The remains of the pipes and the turbine hall control panel.

And most importantly, the beautiful picture of Lenin.

After the turbine hall, let's look at the main control panel.

Buttons, levers, indicators.

To the boiler house.

Steam and water pipes.

Condenser. One for each boiler.

The power plant has been upgraded from peat to gas. The yellow pipes remind us of the gas fuel. As mentioned above, modern cogeneration plants have gas turbines, which produce energy not only from superheated steam but also at the moment of gas combustion. On the right side of the photo is the gas boiler covered with white insulation.

The boiler room is divided into two parts that mirror each other.

Let's move from the fourth boiler to the first boiler from bottom to top. You could say, in a spiral.

At the end of the building are huts, storage rooms, workshops, and chemical analysis units.

Dawn.

Going up higher.

A very interesting mechanism of manual and mechanical drive.

Between the two boilers.

Above you can see the peat hoppers, left over from the time the power plant was built.

Now they are not functional because the gas pipes are installed right underneath them.

Even higher up in the attic is the ventilation system. The boilers from up there.

And finally, some photos from the drone. Under the chimneys is the boiler house, in the long gallery below is the turbine hall. In the other buildings on the left are the laboratories, workshops, and the substation control room.

On the sides of the building, you can see the galleries used for loading peat.

Until we meet again!