Country Australia Status Operational Owner Stanwell Corporation | Location Ipswich, Queensland Secondary fuel Landfill gas Primary fuel Natural gas | |
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Commission date 1967 (Swanbank A)
1971 (Swanbank B)
1969 (Swanbank C)
2000 (Swanbank D)
2002 (Swanbank E) Decommission date 2005 (Swanbank A)
2012 (Swanbank B)
???? (Swanbank D) Address 116 Swanbank Coal Rd, Swanbank QLD 4306, Australia | ||
Flying near swanbank power station
The Swanbank Power Stations are located in Swanbank within South East Queensland, Australia. The original power station was coal fired, but the site has since moved to gas. By 2007 the site had consisted of the highly efficient 385 megawatts (516,000 hp) gas-fired Swanbank E Power Station and the smaller 28 megawatts (38,000 hp) gas-fired Swanbank C Power Station.
Contents
- Flying near swanbank power station
- Gov owned stanwell closes low emission gas fired 12yo swanbank power station at ipswich
- Components
- World record
- References
Gov owned stanwell closes low emission gas fired 12yo swanbank power station at ipswich
Components
Swanbank A was commissioned in 1967 and decommissioned in August 2005. It had six 66 megawatts (89,000 hp) steam turbines, and was powered by coal. The three 133-metre (436 ft) high, 7,000-tonne (6,900-long-ton; 7,700-short-ton) concrete smoke stacks were collapsed on 20 August 2006. All three were collapsed at the same time with a 10 second delay between each stack. The deconstruction and demolition project, undertaken by Trio Industries, was scheduled to be completed in February 2007.
Swanbank B was commissioned in 1971 with four 120 megawatts (160,000 hp) steam turbines, powered by coal. Four units of Swanbank B were decommissioned in April 2010, June 2010, 2011, and May 2012, due to the plant reaching the end of its operational life. The coal for Swanbank B came from coalfields in South-East Queensland, including New Acland Mine, by road. Water is supplied from Lake Moogerah and the Western Corridor Recycled Water Scheme began to supply the power station with water in August 2007.
Swanbank C was a small gas turbine generating plant, rated at 28 megawatts (38,000 hp). It had two Rolls-Royce Avon gas generators discharging into a power turbine which drove the generator. Middle Ridge Power Station was a similar design, with four gas generators discharging into two power turbines, one on each end of the 56 megawatts (75,000 hp) electrical generator. It was commissioned in 1969.
Swanbank D was a small open cycle gas turbine. Delivering only 37 megawatts (50,000 hp), it was commissioned in 2000 but only ran for a few years.
The much larger and more efficient Swanbank E was commissioned in 2002 with a single 385 megawatts (516,000 hp) combined cycle gas turbine. The gas turbine of Swanbank E was the largest of its type at the time of its commissioning.
World record
In 2011, Swanbank E set a world record for the continuous operation of an Alstom GT26 gas turbine. It had been running for 254 days when it was shut down on 9 July 2011 for planned maintenance.