Construction of power units 5 and 6 in Opole as scheduled and at good pace
The most apparent elements of the project under completion by, inter alia, Mostostal Warszawa at the Opole Power Plant, i.e. the construction of two hard coal-fired power units, are already 80 meters tall.
The most apparent elements of the project under completion by, inter alia, Mostostal Warszawa at the Opole Power Plant, i.e. the construction of two hard coal-fired power units, are already 80 meters tall.
This concerns the so-called pylons designed to function as "spinal cord" for the two power units. Structures that are approx. 125 m in height (comparable to a 40-storey residential building) include elevator shafts, stairwells, utility rooms, and vertical ducts for power cabling and sanitary installations.
"The pylons are erected with the use of the slip formwork technology applied to complete tall structures such us, e.g. skyscrapers. It consists in using a quick-setting concrete of durability suitable to lift a formwork structure. Thanks to this technology, the pylons used in Opole are 3-4 meters taller per day," says Paweł Żbikowski, Project Manager at Mostostal Warszawa.
Currently, other works associated with, inter alia, reinforcing unit 6 machine room foundation slab and pouring the so-called lean concrete to create unit 5 machine room foundation are under way. Ground reinforcement works (the so-called piling works) for boiler rooms are about to end and ground works associated with cooling water pump-room excavations for one of the cold stores have also been initiated.
The two power units under completion, each 900 MWe, will be fired with the use of hard coal. Per annum, they will use approximately 4 million tons of coal delivered from the Upper Silesia. The application of cutting edge technologies will allow for 46% net power energy production efficiency, thus providing significant environmental impact limitation options for power plant, including an approx. 25% carbon dioxide emission reduction per one unit of generated power. In 2019, the power plant, whose construction began nearly 11 months ago, will be one of the most modern coal-fired power plants worldwide.
The construction site can be viewed on a real time basis with the help of one of the three cameras installed at the Opole Power Plant. The first one is located on top of the gypsum reservoir (30 m tall), the second – on the plant's current power unit (100 m tall), and the third one makes it possible to view the construction site from the smokestack level (250 m tall).
The images from the cameras are available at: www.blok5i6.pl/kamery
You are also invited to watch a work progress video at: http://www.mostostal.waw.pl/page/56/386/Realizacje/Budowa-blokow-energetycznych-nr-5-i-6-w-Elektrowni-Opole/