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Great Island PS (Co. Wexford): Two 60 MW TAs (1967-8); one 120 MW TA (1972) | Great Island PS (Co. Wexford): Two 60 MW TAs (1967-8); one 120 MW TA (1972) | ||
Guinness's Brewery, Dublin: Pass-out turbine driving 250 kW turbine-generator. The exhaust steam was used for vat heating purposes, after which the steam passed to a condensing turbine driving a 250 kW generator. (1900) | [[Guiness and Co|Guinness's Brewery]], Dublin: Pass-out turbine driving 250 kW turbine-generator. The exhaust steam was used for vat heating purposes, after which the steam passed to a condensing turbine driving a 250 kW generator. (1900) | ||
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Revision as of 10:59, 21 January 2021
Note: This is a sub-section of C. A. Parsons and Co
See also Reyrolle Parsons
Examples of Power Stations in the UK & Ireland with Parsons Steam Turbine-Generators
See also Parsons Turbines: Early Examples
PS = Power Station
TA = Turbine-Alternator
Dates are approximate commissioning dates.
Note: Many power stations contained turbine-generators from a variety of makers. Only Parsons sets are listed below.
Ackton Hall Colliery, Yorkshire: 150 kW TA. First three-phase alternator in the UK, and possibly in the world.[1]
Barking 'A' PS: Four 40 MW, four 20 MW TAs
Birtley Iron Works: 500 kW turbine-generator. Mixed-pressure turbine.
Blaydon Burn PS: 3 MW TA. Said to have the first installation of regenerative feed heating. Note: The first totally-enclosed air-cooling system for alternators was applied at Blaydon Burn PS, in 1919[2].
Bradford (Valley Road) PS: Two 22.5 MW TAs (one 6.6 kV, one 33 kV)
Brimsdown Power Station: 'A' Station - 25 MW TA (1928), the first in the UK to generate at 33 kV; 'B' Station - four 25 MW TAs[3]
Burton upon Trent PS: One 6 MW TA
Calder Hall Power Station: Eight 23 MW TAs (later uprated to 30 MW). (1956-9)
Carville 'A' PS: Two 3·5 MW and two 1·5 MW TAs. The 3·5 MW units were nearly double the capacity of any TA which had been made up to that time.[4]. By 1911 there were eight TAs giving a total output of 32 MW.
Chapelcross Nuclear PS: Eight 23 MW TAs (later uprated to 30 MW) (1959)
Close Power Station (Newcastle)
Devonport Dockyard: Two 3.75 MW TAs (1928), one 3.75 MW TA (1937) [5]
Drax PS: Six 660 MW TAs (1973-86)
Dungeness A Nuclear Power Station
Dunston-on-Tyne PS: Three 67,000 HP T/As (c.1934)
Fawley PS: Four 500 MW TAs
Ferrybridge 'C' PS: Four 500 MW TAs
Great Island PS (Co. Wexford): Two 60 MW TAs (1967-8); one 120 MW TA (1972)
Guinness's Brewery, Dublin: Pass-out turbine driving 250 kW turbine-generator. The exhaust steam was used for vat heating purposes, after which the steam passed to a condensing turbine driving a 250 kW generator. (1900)
Hunterston A Nuclear Power Station
Hunterston B Nuclear Power Station
Laxey PS (IoM): 750 kW TA (secondhand in 1920)
Lots Road (Underground Electric Rly of London): Eight 6 MW TAs, capable of overload to 8 - 10 MW (c.1910?)
Neptune Bank (Newcastle): 1·5 MW three-phase alternator of the revolving armature type, generating at 6.6 kV 40 Hz. This machine gave trouble and was replaced by one with a rotating field, following the installation there in 1903 of the first alternator with a rotating field, rated at 2 MW 6.6 kV, three-phase, 40 Hz[6]
Newburn Steelworks (J. Spencer and Co): 750 kW TA. The turbine worked on low exhaust pressure steam from rolling mill and other engines steelworks, with a live steam backip supply.
Ringsend PS (Dublin): 'A' Station: three 30 MW TAs (1955-56); 'B' Station: one 50 MW TA
Rothes Mills, Glenrothes: Various turbine generators installed, from 1902 onwards, from 150 to 5000 kW [7]
Sculcoates PS (Hull): 25 MW TA (1935)
Skelton Grange 'A' PS: Six 60 MW TAs (1951-55)
Treforest Power Station: 18.75 MW TA (1921)
Examples of Overseas Power Stations with Parsons Steam Turbine-Generators
Broken Hill Proprietary Co. (Australia): Two 18.75 MW TAs (c.1938)[8]
Bunnerong PS (Australia):
Calcutta Electric Supply Co: Two 30 MW TAs (c.1938)
Evans Bay PS (Wellington, NZ): Two 1.5 MW TAs transferred from Harris Street Generating Station; 5 MW TA (1924); 15 MW TA (1936) [9]. 1939 photo here.
Harris Street PS (Wellington, NZ): 1907 photo here
Richard L. Hearn PS (Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario): 100 MW TA (1951)
Crawford Street Power Station (Chicago): 50 MW TA (c.1923)
Fisk Street station in Chicago: 25 MW TA (c.1913)
Great Indian Peninsular Railway: Kalyan PS: Four 23 MW T/As (c.1930)
Newport 'A' & 'B' power stations, Australia: c.1913
Port Dixon PS (Malaysia): Two 60 MW TAs (1973)
Randfontein Estates Mine: Two 1 MW turbine-generators (1907); two 7.5 MW TAs (6-pole alternators, 1000 rpm), c.1910?
Schiehaven PS (Rotterdam): One 20 MW TA (1920)[10]
Shangai Municipal Electricity Works: 20 MW TA (c.1923)
Spencer Street Railway Station, Melbourne: 150 kW turbine-generator (c.1900) [11]
Ultimo PS(Sydney): 1875 kW TA (1905); Two 5/7.5 MW MW, 25 Hz TAs (1909); with an overload capacity of 7500 kW and generated three phase alternating current at 25 Hz, they were numbered 10 and 12.
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ [1] Electricity Supply in Great Britain - A Chronology-From the beginnings of the industry to 31 December 1976 by The Electricity Council, second edition, 1977
- ↑ [2] Electricity Supply in Great Britain - A Chronology-From the beginnings of the industry to 31 December 1976 by The Electricity Council, second edition, 1977, p.14
- ↑ [3] Wikipedia
- ↑ [4] Electricity Supply in Great Britain - A Chronology-From the beginnings of the industry to 31 December 1976 by The Electricity Council, second edition, 1977, p.12
- ↑ [5] Hansard, 1947, Devonport Dockyard (Electricity Undertaking)
- ↑ [6] Electricity Supply in Great Britain - A Chronology-From the beginnings of the industry to 31 December 1976 by The Electricity Council, second edition, 1977, p.12
- ↑ [7] Canmore: Glenrothes, Rothes Mills, Power House
- ↑ [8] Durham Mining Museum website: Colliery Guardian, October 22, 1937: Mechanical And Electrical Engineering On Tyneside
- ↑ [9] Engineering New Zealand: Evans Bay Power Station
- ↑ [10] The Engineer, 13 May 1927. Description and illustrations
- ↑ [11] Notes on a test of Parson's Steam Turbines, at Spencer Street Railway Station (1900 Paper & Discussion) by William Stone, 1903