Abandoned Power Station, Luxembourg

6 comments to Abandoned Power Station, Luxembourg

• Doug M.

  October 20, 2011 at 2:35 pm · Reply

  Whoa… Rage (the video game), anyone? Looks like one of the environments could have been taken straight from these pictures…

• Necohon

  October 20, 2011 at 3:31 pm · Reply

  I assume, in fact, that these were smelting works/blast furnaces.

  • Bart

    February 4, 2012 at 2:02 pm · Reply

    @Necohon: No, those are stoker-style boilers with simple heat-recovery turbine-generators. The boiler was a box of layered tubes over a shaking plate (like a huge gold pan)that the coal was fed on to and air was added across. The pools under the hoppers in the early pictures mean the molten slag would fall from the pans and be quenched, and a flow through that pool would take it to a dewatering pond where the slag would be collected to be used as road and wall fill and blasting media. Stokers were all the rage from 1910 onward. Then they began using cyclone units, similar style but more efficient, then they began using pulverized coal which is much cleaner and much much more efficient. The last pictures are actually from the very top of the station from the coal conveyors where it would fall into a hopper known as a bunker to be fed down to the pans.

• Malcolm Stoney

  October 20, 2011 at 7:04 pm · Reply

  These would be great if they weren’t HDR.

• Ryan

  October 20, 2011 at 8:42 pm · Reply

  Would be a great place to shoot a movie.

• Julien

  January 24, 2012 at 7:58 am · Reply

  Nice pics, too bad you used those filters.