BTH: Electricity Generation and Transmission
Note: This is a sub-section of BTH
History
1899 Supplied equipment for Middlesbrough Power Station
1904 BTH started making turbines.
1905 BTH made its first turbo-alternator.
Examples of UK Power Stations with BTH Steam Turbine-Generators
PS = Power Station
TA = Turbine Alternator
Dates are approximate commissioning dates.
Bankside Power Station: Two 60 MW TAs (1952-3)
Barking PS: Two 75 MW TAs (mid-1930s). 600-700 psig, 800-850 degF [1]
Barrow-in-Furness PS: One TA
Battersea PS: One 67.2 MW TA
Bowater Mersey Paper Mill: 6 MW TA (1930); 9 MW TA (1933) [2] [3]
Brimsdown PS: 25 MW TA [4]
Burton upon Trent: One 7.5 MW TA
Carlisle Willow Holme PS: Seven TAs, output 350 kW - 30 MW (1923–30 and 1943–44) [5]
Castle Meads (Glos): Two 20 MW TAs (1940s)
Coventry (Longford) PS: Two 19.25 MW TAs (1928), Three 30.75 MW TAs (mid-1930s)
Deptford East LP PS: Three 20 MW BTH-Brown Boveri, one 25 MW BTH, one 25 MW Richardson-Westgarth-BTH TAs[6]
Deptford West PS: Two 30 MW TAs
Exeter Haven Road PS: One 1 MW TA (c.1920), one 4 MW & one 4.25 MW TA (c.1930) [7]
Ford Motor Co, Dagenham: 30 MW TA (1929). First example to operate at 1200 psi. Two 30 MW TAs (1930s). One 3.75 MW TA [8]
Gravesend PS: One 2 MW, Two 5 MW TAs (1921-1926)
Greenwich Power Station: Two 20 MW TAs, 25 Hz, 1500 rpm [9]. The first was being erected in 1932 [10]
Grove Road PS (London): Three 18.75 MW & two 12 MW
Halifax PS: Three TAs, 7.8 - 12 MW
Ironbridge 'A' PS: Four 50 MW TAs (first commissioned c.1932)
Kearsley 'A' PS: Two 32.25 MW TAs (1929)
Kearsley 'B' PS: Two 51.6 MW TAs (1936/38)
Kearsley 'C' PS: Two 52 MW TAs (1949)
Kingston 'B' PS: Four 30 MW TAs
Kirkstall PS: Two 25 MW (commissioned 1930), one 30 MW (ordered 1935)
Leeds (Whitehall Road) PS: One 10 MW, one 12 MW TA
Longford PS (Coventry): Three 30.75 MW TAs (lated 1930s)
Clayton and Shuttleworth /Lincoln Corporation PS: One 2 MW TA
Neepsend: Two 30 MW TAs (installed 1936 and 1937)
Newton Abbot PS: TA1 & 2 - 1.25 MW ex-Torquay PS (1924), TA3 & 4 - 3.75 MW (1924-6), TA5 - 7.5 MW (1929), TA6 - 7.5 MW (1931), TA7 & 8 - 15 MW (1940s). Source of information here
North Wilford PS (Nottingham): 30 MW TA (c.1936)
Ocker Hill PS (Tipton): Two 34 MW TAs (1940s)
Padiham 'A' PS: One 7.5 MW and one 15.625 MW TAs
Padiham 'B' PS: One 120 MW TA (1962)
Park Pits, Poynton: One 625 kW TA (1926) [11]
Pinkston (Glasgow) PS: 5 MW TA (1914), 10 MW TA (1923?)[12]
Portsmouth HP PS: Four 30 MW TAs (1938 - 1952)
Radcliffe PS (Manchester): Two 1.5 MW (1905), two 10 MW turbine generators (1922). Possibly others between, as ten sets in total had been installed by 1922 [13]
Rishton Paper Mill (Peebles & Co): 1.25 MW pass-out turbine, c.1934 [14]
Rotherham PS: One 30 MW TA (constructed 1917, commissioned 1923). Largest TA made to date
Spondon PS: 30 MW TA [15]
Stourport 'A' PS: LP side: Two 18 MW TAs, each with a 250 kW DC auxiliary generator; one 20 MW TA; HP side: one 35 MW TA; House set: 750 kW TA.
Thanet PS (Kent): One 1 MW, one 2 MW, one 3 MW TA
Thorpe PS (Norwich): 15 MW TA [16]
Thornhill PS: Three 1.5 MW TAs (installed 1902)
Wallasey PS: One 1 MW TA, ex-Sea View PS (c.1920?) [17]
Wandsworth PS: Two 5 MW, one 6 MW TA
Westwood (Wigan) PS: Four 32 MW TAs (1951-53)
Wilford (Notts) PS: Three 12.5 MW, one 20 MW (1925-28), one 30 MW (1935), two 30 MW (1947), one 53 & two 52.5 plus two 2.5 MW house service TAs (1949-50)
Wimbledon PS: One 1 MW, one 1.5 MW TA (c.1920)
Wimbledon (Southern Railway): 12.5 MW TA [18]
Walsall (Birchills) PS: Six 34 MW TAs (commissioned 1949-54)
Worcester PS: One 1.5 MW (1913), one 3 MW & one 7.5 MW TAs (1945)
Main source of information: Wikipedia - coal-fired power stations in England.
Examples of Overseas Power Stations with BTH Steam Turbine-Generators
Ahmedabad Electric Co: Two 3.75 MW TAs (mid 1930s) [19]
Australian Paper Manufacturers Ltd: 3.5 MW TA (late 1930s)
Colenso (South Africa): Colenso 1: One 25 MW; Colenso 2: two 25 MW TAs [20]
Durban, Alice Street PS (South Africa): 3 MW TAs (c.1917) [21]
Costanera (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Delray PS (Detroit Edison Co): One TA (late 1930s)[22]
Detroit Edison Co: 10 MW TA. Two cylinders. Ordered 1928. Highest operating steam temperature to date (1000 degF) [23]
Ford Motor Co of Canada: 25 MW TA (ordered in 1938)[24]
Green Street PS, Melbourne: One 1 MW TA
Hex River PS (S Africa): Three 20 MW TAs [25]
Kingston PS (Canberra, Aus): 1.5 MW TAs (1927)[26]
Mufulira Copper Mines Ltd: 14 MW TA (late 1930s)
Pacific Mills Ltd., Ocean Falls, British Columbia: 2.5 MW geared TA
Pretoria City Council PS: 12.5 MW TA (1936)[27]
Russia: During the Second World War BTH supplied forty 500 kW transportable turbine-alternator sets.
Schaebick PS, Interbrabant Co, Belgium: 25 MW TA [28]
Shanghai Power Co - Riverside PS: 22.5 MW TA (1933)[29]
Ultimo PS, NSW Govt Rlys: Two 25 MW 25 Hz TAs, one made in NSW (c.1932) [30]
Examples of Generators for Hydro-Electric Plant
Maragua Development Scheme, East African Power & Lighting Co: Two 2 MW horizontal alternators [31]
Tummel Hydro PS: Two 21.25 MW horizontal alternators [32]
Uhl River Hydro Scheme, Punjab Govt: Four 12 MW alternators, plus transformers with total rating of 168 MVA, driven by Boving and Co water turbines [33] [34]
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ Rugby Advertiser - Friday 15 January 1932
- ↑ The Engineer 1934/01/05
- ↑ Engineering 1934/06/15
- ↑ Rugby Advertiser, 3 July 1931
- ↑ [1] Wikipedia - Carlisle Power Stations
- ↑ [2] Wikipedia - Deptford Power Station
- ↑ [3] AIA Bulletin, Volume 14 Number 1Winter1986p.6, letter from Ray Warburton
- ↑ Rugby Advertiser, 3 July 1931
- ↑ [4] London Transport Museum
- ↑ Rugby Advertiser - Friday 15 January 1932
- ↑ [5] Poynton Collieries: Technical Developments and the Main Pits, by David Kitching, 2014
- ↑ [6] Hidden Glasgow Forums: Re: Power Stations & Electricity Generation in Glasgow. post by 'cell', 15 May 2008
- ↑ 'Electricity in Manchester 1893-1993, by Roy Frost, 1993, Neil Richardson
- ↑ [7] The Engineer, 5 Jan 1934
- ↑ Rugby Advertiser, 3 July 1931
- ↑ Rugby Advertiser, 3 July 1931
- ↑ [8] MANWEB Remembered: Reprt on official opening of Wallasey PS, 1928
- ↑ [9] The Engineer, 5 Jan 1934
- ↑ [10] The Engineer, 5 Jan 1934
- ↑ [11] ESKOM website - Colenso Power Station
- ↑ [12] ESKOM website - Congella Power Station
- ↑ Rugby Advertiser, 16 December 1938
- ↑ B.T.H. Reminiscences. Sixty Years of Progress.
- ↑ Rugby Advertiser, 16 December 1938
- ↑ [13] ESKOM website - Hex River Power Station
- ↑ [14] Discovering Mildenhall's Canberra website: Photo: Kingston Power Station. BTH Curtis 1500kW Turbo Alternator. Installed Oct 1927. Bellis and Morcom steam engines in background
- ↑ [15] The Engineer, 11 Sept 1936
- ↑ [16] The Engineer, 5 Jan 1934
- ↑ [17] The Engineer, 5 Jan 1934
- ↑ Rugby Advertiser - Friday 15 January 1932
- ↑ Rugby Advertiser - Friday 15 January 1932
- ↑ Rugby Advertiser - Friday 15 January 1932
- ↑ Rugby Advertiser - Friday 15 January 1932
- ↑ [18] The Engineer, 7 Feb 1930, p.173