Crivina Power Station
| Crivina Power Station | |
|---|---|
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| Official name | Termocentrala de la Crivina |
| Country | Romania |
| Location | Crivina |
| Coordinates | 45°02′1.59″N 21°48′57.69″E / 45.0337750°N 21.8160250°E |
| Status | Decommissioned |
| Construction began | 1976 |
| Commission date | 1983 |
| Decommission date | 1988 |
| Owner(s) | Termoelectrica |
| Thermal power station | |
| Primary fuel | Oil shale |
| Power generation | |
| Units decommissioned | 3 x 330 MW |
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The Crivina Power Station (
thermal power plant located in Crivina, near Anina in Caraș-Severin County. It had three generating units of 330 MW each, altogether having a total electricity generating capacity of 990 MW.[1][2] It was intended to be the first oil shale power station built in Romania.[3] The total cost of the oil shale power plant was around US$1 billion.[4] The Crivina Power Station was supplied with 4 million tonnes of oil shale per year from the nearby Anina Mine.[3]
History
This power plant works only for 76 hours in reality. At the beginning of the 1970s
Oraviţa but the chosen site had a very small water supply that was not sufficient for the power station.[5] In 1976 a new location was found at Crivina, located in the mountains near Anina. In 1983 the construction of the power station was complete and the first 330 MW electric power generation unit was put online. The turbine could not reach its highest potential capacity due to the low quality of the oil shale deposits.[5] The communist regime also built a town that was used to house the power station's workers. It was intended to have 10,000 inhabitants, and a part of Anina had to move to this new location to make way for oil shale surface mines.[5]
The first of the three power generation units was completed in 1983, and in 1984 generated its first electricity from burning oil shale.flue gas stack that was at the time Romania's second tallest.[4]
References
- ^ "Direct Combustion of Oil Shale" (PDF). Pace Synthetic Fuels Report. 19 (1). The Pace Company Consultants & Engineers: 2. March 1982. Retrieved 2012-11-03.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Principalele referinte". Energomontaj (in Romanian). 2009. Retrieved 2010-09-17.
- ^ a b "Anina - termocentrala muzeu". Adevarul (in Romanian). 2002. Retrieved 2010-09-17.
- ^ a b c d Curiţa, Nina (2009-03-30). "Mult zgomot pentru nimic" [Much ado about nothing]. Caras Online (in Romanian). Retrieved 2010-09-17.
- ^ a b c d "Orașul frigului". apropo.ro (in Romanian). 2001. Retrieved 2010-09-17.