Hsinta Power Plant

The Hsinta Power Plant or Hsing-ta Power Plant[2] (Chinese: 興達發電廠; pinyin: Xìngdá Fādiànchǎng) is a coal-fired power plant in Yong'an District and Qieding District in Kaohsiung, Taiwan.[3][4] With a total installed capacity of 4,326 MW,[5] the plant is Taiwan's second largest coal-fired power plant after the 5,500 MW Taichung Power Plant (coal-generated power only).

Hsinta Power Plant
興達發電廠
Flue-gas stacks at Hsinta Power Plant
Official name興達發電廠
CountryRepublic of China
LocationYong'an and Qieding, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Coordinates22°51′23″N 120°11′49″E
StatusOperational
Construction began1978
Commission dateSeptember 1982 (Unit 1)
December 1983 (Unit 2)
June 1985 (Unit 3)
April 1986 (Unit 4)[1]
Owner(s)Taipower
Operator(s)Taipower
Thermal power station
Primary fuelCoal
Power generation
Units operational4 (coal)
Nameplate capacity4,326 MW
External links
CommonsRelated media on Commons

It is the oldest coal-fired power plant in Taiwan as of 2019 and was built 37 years ago without any prior air quality impact evaluation.,[6] making it notorious for polluting air quality in southern Taiwan for decades.[6]

Components

The coal yards of the power plant was designed as an indoor type to mitigate local environment impacts. It consists of four coal domes with 170,000 tonnes of storage capacity each, which enables the continuous supply for all of the generation units for 50 days of operation.[7]

The coal handling system of the power plant consists of stacker, reclaimer and two conveyor belts. The capacity of the stacker is 4,000 tonnes/hour and reclaimer is 2,000 tonnes/hour. The first conveyor belt has a total length of 4.8 km with a capacity of 4,000 tonnes/hour, handling between the coal domes and barge, and the second conveyor belt has a total length of 5.2 km with a capacity of 2,000 tonnes/hour, handling between the coal dome and wharf.[8]

Events

4 March 2010

Generators in four units of the plant tripped at 8:18 a.m following the 2010 Kaohsiung earthquakes.[9]

Transportation

Hsinta Power Plant is accessible West from Luzhu Station of Taiwan Railways.

See also

References
  1. http://web3.moeaboe.gov.tw/ECW/english/content/ContentLink.aspx?menu_id=1540
  2. "Hsinta (Hsing-ta) Coal Power Plant Taiwan - GEO". Globalenergyobservatory.org. 26 December 2012. Retrieved 1 May 2014.
  3. "Hsinta Power Station, Taiwan Power Company". Ftis.org.tw. Retrieved 1 May 2014.
  4. "Hsinta Natural Gas-Fired Power Plant, Kaohsiung". Power Technology. 15 June 2011. Retrieved 1 May 2014.
  5. (PDF) https://web.archive.org/web/20131015111609/http://www.brain-c-jcoal.info/news_images/JapanTaiwanCCTWorkshop2009_05.pdf. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 October 2013. Retrieved 1 August 2013. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  6. Public Television Service Foundation (25 March 2019). "興達電廠脫胎記 [Hsinta Power Plant will be still there.]". 我們的島 [Our island] (in Chinese). Retrieved 31 October 2019.
  7. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 7 December 2014.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  8. "TPC Hsinta Indoor Coal Handling System | KINGTECH Engineering". Kingtechengineer.com. Archived from the original on 28 February 2014. Retrieved 1 May 2014.
  9. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 17 May 2014. Retrieved 3 June 2014.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)


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