Barton Power Station
Coal plant in England
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Barton Power Station was a coal-fired power station on the Bridgewater Canal in Trafford Park, near Eccles, Lancashire, England.
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| Coordinates | 53°28′23″N 2°20′56″W |
| Status | Decommissioned |
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| Chimneys | 2 |
| Cooling source | Canal water |
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| Annual net output | 72.15 GWh (1972) |
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History
The construction of the station began in 1920 and operation began in 1923. The station's original equipment consisted of three Metropolitan-Vickers 27.5 MW turbo-alternators, nine Babcock & Wilcox chain-grate stoked boilers, Mather & Platt auxiliary equipment and British Thomson-Houston switchgear. The station supplied electricity to an area of 3,100 square kilometers and was one of the most advanced power stations of the time.[1][2] Coal was delivered to the station in barges, using the Bridgewater Canal.[1] Steam condensing and cooling was by water abstracted from the canal.
The station was extended in 1928 with the addition of a three new Babcock & Willcox boilers at 130,000Ib/hr. One of the boilers uses pulverised fuel the others uses conventional graters. This powers a Metropolitan-Vickers a 40 MW 6,600-volt turbo alternator with a 1 MW house set on the same shaft. [3]
This bought the installed capacity up to 122.5 MW.
in 1938 a further extension was made with a Metropolitan Vickers 50 MW set wound for 33,000 Volts and fed by two 200,000 Ib/hr boilers. [4][5][6]
| Year | 1946 | 1955 | 1956 | 1957 | 1958 | 1959 | 1961 | 1962 | 1963 | 1967 |
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| Output, GWh | 490.7 | 273.5 | 228.75 | 224.05 | 188.44 | 341.51 | 127.5 | 67.9 | 114.8 | 191.2 |
In 1972 it had one 39 MW operational set and one 51.5 MW set. Thee boilers delivered 770,000 lb/h (97 kg/s) of steam at 350 psi (24.1 bar) and 371/441 °C. In that year the station sent out 72.149 GWh, the load factor was 11.9 per cent and the thermal efficiency was 17.86 per cent.[7]
The station was closed on 18 March 1974 with a reduced generating capacity of 69 MW. At the time the station was co-firing oil.[8] The station was then demolished in 1978 and 1979.[1] The first chimney was demolished in June 1979.[9] A B&Q store now stands on the site of the station.[1]
