ST GEORGE POWER PLANT AT THE JOZEF WIECZOREK MINE NEAR KATOWICE

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• Publication Date: July 21, 1954
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COUNTRY Poland
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DATE DISTR. 21 ;1131.3-Y 1954
3UE3JECI St Georg0 Power Plant t the Jozef wi.f.xtztirek
!AIDA near Xatowics
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L Th St 7?oore (!,7wietop at the Jozef Wsthem,rok Mine wea located
,5anow (itralowice) (Q 51/1-66), about five Rilometers ea2A-3ou.theas- of the
Katowice (Q 511Y 57) mai7.1 9taida,"),$ just north of the Pulaal Mine? at the extension
of the goad of the Poliah Armed Forces, The 8/.Y. (..looling towers loct.,.ted in the
northeastern por'Uon. of the area wore prominent lex:a/larks,.
Until the end of the war .a.te poirplant was properc,y of tno aeorg . von Gieaches
rben. (Georg von ?.:iieschels Heirs) Mining Company!, with 49 percent, fiwned by the
::?;ilestart Alliellcan Corporation and 51 percent by the Caesche Tr. -4717.!f, 7.,!nr the
power plant was connected to the Hermann Goering Concern and, aftor the wer, it was
taken over by the Associated Ke_towice. Coal Industry (Katowickie 21ednoos::enie ,Przomysiu
owago), Its central office was located in 14elnimiecs., in the u,:)rthern part of
IC::ltowice:) and became subordtnete to the Ministry tor Mining"! in W.:osa-4,, ..'ollouring the
AO reorganizatiofl of the Polish power system the St tie? rge Power Plxst was turned
ver to the State Owned Enterprises for the Electrification of kriculture with its
central office located in Krakow., i!ter 1951; the power plant, belonged to the Central
.60,30ciation for Power atvplys, Southern District (C7X-Gentra1ne Zjednoczenie
6;nargetyczne (Amu Poludniowego) in Katowice, which was subordinate to the Ministry
of Power in 1.,`arsaw.
Tho plant covorce an nrf.c of but 280 x 360 meters. The inStallationz included
tra:::;fozsilel' stations a cozpree7ior stations the boiler engine hoasel, six cooling
towers?), one pumping sttion a docareonizer for water? containers, for condensed water
'rhdtnree stores. The installations of the Pulaski lanes, such as.1,1achirio shop, coal
sorting plant and clonveyero pit heed baths and work shops were located in the southern
plant area, Railroad tracks leading from north to south throrda the plant area were
Interconnected by one track south of the boiler and. engine houee. The two naiTow.-
gauge _railroad engines available to the power plant belonged to the Jozaf Iiieczorek
Mate ca
4oTho StCTeorgo ?over Plant, one of the largest themal power p15ntf3 in tipper Sileaiat.
sopplied power to industrial plants in the vicinity and to the district power
nets
according to a monthly production plan received from the central Administration for
l'over ?{3upply located on ul 3-gc, Neje in Katowice. The Central txiministration received
its 5,,Toduction plan from the Qentral &Ministration for ?mar'Supply in slAdarsaw. The
a.varafo elnitput of: the pawar paaet amounted to 750e000 !Ws aiul its maximum output to
1,, 0997, 200 levijh for 24 hourso
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20wor consumers of the St Georoaftwer Plant included the Josef WLeezorek
Mile in Jaeow? the Moslowice /line in lq;y6loleace(Q WI 66), the nrdi
Motalleroical Plant in Szopien je?!,0 (Q 5Y 67), the /cad reinino plant in
?'feeopienice-Dabrowke? the Uthereann netellurOcal Plant Uzopienice? the
factory for technical porcelain near the Ferro Metallurgical Plant in
Katowiee onc4 by means of a closed circuit system, tho district pewee act.
This ring circuit was composed of one line from the Chorzow (Koeniocheette
(Q 51/1 57) power plant to the Laziska Gone (Q 51/Y 45) power plant near
Mikolow (Q 51/Y 56) vie Ketawice-Dab, Janow and Wesola (Q 51/Y 66). The
sosond part of the power ring lead frva the Laziska Gorne power plant to the
chorzow power plant vie the power plant in Zabrze (Hindenburg) (Q 51/Y 47)
and 3zombiorki (Q 51/Y 57) near Beuthen (Bytom)(Q 51/Y 58),
The efficiency of the power plant was hanpered by the lack of steam caused by
the Insufficient qyantity and quality of coal received and by the overload
originating in the direct cable connection to the metallurgical plants Many
boilers also were in very poor conditions, and the electric equipment failed
Zreouently. The five parae.lel cables leading to the Bernardi Metallurgical
plant laid in 1935, burned through one or two times per week, especially during
the semeer.
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7. The power plant had a work force of 378 personsoincluding 12 women and about
30 percent experts. Because of the danger involved, no juvenileo and only
very few women were hired. The technical staff and adminietretion Teee composed
of 16 nersons,including the plant director aid his deputy and 4 women working at
The cdministration. Forty percent of the plant eloployees were young mend I 25X1X
25X1X I I all tcanical chiefs were r%' fenctionaries. Except for a Swiss
25X1X enoineerl !wile hGd 1,:vzhed on the safety installation
of a proul Boveri generator in 1948 an0 two expert from a firm in Vienna who
had worked on the construction of the Paukee-type coal-dust-fueled boiler. no
Zoreion experts incledino Soviets,. were employed at the plant? There uas an
urgent demand of exports and unskilled heavy leborero including three electric
foremen5 one technician for general overheeling of machinery, operators for
the slake conveyers, oxoorte and mechanics for turbines, high-power mecheuies
ond ouelified stokers. Work was done in three eight-hour shifts. Exoerts,
oepecially the technical personnel, the plant director and his deputy, usually
worked overt:11.qm, While boilers and turbines were being thoroughly overhauled,
they often worked as long as 30 hours, pausing for meals only, Ho special
work quotas existed at the plant. After one year of employment, experts and other
technical personnel were grented one month leave and workers 14 days. This leave
was imreased to four weeks after 10 years of employment. The laborers were
usually able to take all their loove, while tho technical personnel generally
collie-% not be absent for long periods,
8. Plant Director Graduate Engineer Tadeusz auszynski, about 50 years of age,
his deputy Teohnician Marian Kwaseik, about 33 years of age, 163 em tall and
blend no comeunist and Technician Stanislaw Osoba, chief of tho boiler houses
about LO years of age and first lieutenant of the reserve corps, lived in one
heeee on ul Aemii Czerwonej in Giszowice (Q 51/Y 66). Stolaeczyk (fnu), chief
of nwebine department, about 60 years or ace, lived in Ni!dozowiee (Q 51/Y 66).
Foe-twee Ryszard Osiecki chief of the turbine doparteent0'about 50 years of age,
lived in jcoow.
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96 The plant area Ina earrounded by a wire fence, about three meters high,
and the high-Ve/tage transformer station was provided with ep Wetea rence.
The plant had an industrial police unit of 24 men armed with rifles. Next
to the two gates there were snail guard mole each occupied by four nen.
TWO men were posted at the gate, while the otheeetwoe7gieeellew7 the
elant installetions,, The eight guards were replaced after eight-hour duty.
25X1A A. Ictreleaeee For plant layout, tee Annex 10 For laytrat sketah of the
turbine house and machine shop, see Annex 2.
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'Legend to Sketch 1:
:It 'Reed leading from the power plant to the west,
2 Road leading to Giszawice in the south and to Slobieniec in the north.
3 park belonging to the plant area.
4 Starderd gauge railroad line end side tracks
Transformer station covering an area of 40 x 40 meters. The building
'housed measuring end switching equipment. The two transformera, about -
6 x 24 neters ? transformed voltages. from 6,300 volts to 60,C00 volts.40MVA.
High tension 60,000 volt power line leading west via Katowice-Dab to Chorzow.
7 Ugh tension 60,000 volt power line leading south to Wesola - Laziska Gorne.
8 Fence.
9 Planned fence around plant .area.
10 'Fence,
11 Northern entrance for railroad tracks.
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13 Narrow gauge railroad tracks.
14 ancho
15 Ramp-,
16 Slake dump.
17 Smoke stack i about 98 meters high and six meters in diameter
18 Blast Enema.
'Steel structure cooling tower with wooden board panels, 18 corners, more
t"Aen 30 meters high and 28 metere in diametere
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23 Steel structuee cooling towers, same as abovet bout 26 to 28 mctersh iand
16 meters in diameter.
24 Wooden structure cooling tower, 10 x 10 meters, 10 to 12 mtera high.
25 Peoectod building to main store and offices.
26 Cotoressor station, brick building, 30 x 80 x 12 m, housing three turbo
empressors, including one of type "Borsig-ARG" operating at a steam pressure
ef 40 atmospheres at 8 000 rpm, with a capacity of 80,000 cbm air at a
peeeouro of 6 atmospheres, and two Brown overy turbo compressors operating
at a ateam pressure of 15 atmospheres,
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a-Aokoetaek? 103 neters hih, 6 moter3 i22 n clinn-Ae1.0
Poli.er house end ilytine house.
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20 TT,so -1.7.4an ETthests, nrotrndirw 3 from the roor,
22 e2 ortonEi,n ef hoo
- 6 N 6 3,5 hounirTf tlze pouscd
ty tree 500 volt elatie l'N-4ters with n of 42 kF.,
1j3 far-.Ccadened nlund 12Ln ;ith reline tel;e:1- 5 x 5 x 16
mgc.estr.telc,
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:5 Convo,yirg belt for cf..7o7U
on ce7Aveyinsl be/t
38. -1.aski 5no with toT2c:?,,
TO Cnolcni
40 huil.fiim,? 12 A p?
brick 22 metTt with rt fr21.11,vs
YI:Eisnes electric en-d tools,
2 p,art store voen btrrep 12 x 20 :71eters1 with spore nats' for. the-
CO'afld sectin
U73o..C.Ien ctore 20 x 80 mr,t,.7,:y..-s, itam7.
'n.rin7 ?"10/1F0, 20 7: 60 x S Tet.17,-;rs honsin7 offices in the wetcr-A. part
if3-1.7,e in te s,onthy.,,71 ?
hcznes of Pttilc,k1., 2C. 7 40 r houin hoL.:?trl of the
d ce.rve..rtiw: earfent e dirv,.;t-eacnt.fer
16 x. 60 12 2eter5.ho v2 he fitt.l7a
elaltric thi7 fore .o....nla? the fory0:77,
brick7.7.7,..23.1f:11.:-;,rz.f, 16 x 1.6
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Legend to Sketch 2:
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oiler
house with cz.1iinallation? 11 boiloo and a,
a Old ho1l6r from the Ilt%ne:r aolioniewski fin1.2 good con(lition,? outp,..2t
Of iU tons of ntema pr hour vt oro:o of 15 atmc?-,1pner,?5 ?
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b EorI7-fLG tyne boilorp constructed in 19,46?,tn an output of 5C tor,: of riteara.
por hoar at a presoare of 40 atmon:,:v-.1res.
Fit7uor Z Ucanwok1 tyr,e boil ith aa cplItout of 25 tons of otocj:,1por hour
Fir,,iem.I.re of 40 a':'.'orJeFp',1-Yrs. The boftl?er itlmost not opnaticnal,
Iait.7,noz.-Ciam-par type boilr s!,n output 25 tons of sts,m, - hour
vilegealy unnervleall:ae; woo to be conversd for co:21 dust
e Pal-7,:%or typFr) boiler for ooal evzst fio1inc urvi,e7c. ccnstruction. The to be
ia late Sentaabrv,4 1052, to have an outwat of 60 to3 of rtem per
hour at a prazire of 40 etr.oFITre5.,,,
Yit=ey.!-Garoer typo boiler with an altput of 25 tons of etema uor hour at a
preooure Gf 35 etmo,707!ex.es,) The/:',0:1177 V01:1 IP FOOd COnditiOn
E Fit..?zrisr-acer t7pe boiler, 1C ,ve &OVE lino to be converted to Incl duilt
f13..ej
a 221i fnn.c. as
CwLztion ty2o boiler -Jith ar. gatnut of 60 tons of steara,ocr
prciare-of 40 atmozphaes, jemary 1952
1 Same. as i:,
m rn1;73.wimp, stationv operating at a preemlre of 40 stmspheres for thi! boilero
:1!;ot.2twoor b, k irg:16. 1 abovn,,.
n
E-,11.cint -1,,rith fourroe too in oparation
aoratin at 0 05:71.777'0 of 10 atmospheres? vith a ot,:)...pacity
20 c voltage of' 6.?3 T!,:te ?aerated at fall .,".!a7-c.c:t?
horoperating at a.1.,:=7,..11.re of 15 atTospheresp- producing a.,Irrent at 6.3 :z.V
a o1: cat of The aor cto at 70 porocmt ofitt Z111
? 3c;1,t of a 7,mTrator h..nd be,71,1 6.1smatld in 2944. The ceneroter raferred to
vmeisr 2 to be :th.s.ollc.d horo.,
d0rcx)eratinc.!. at a nrc;lonro of 15 a..to7;oheres.7. seoe ?las generator. b. To
turtdn.:,3 blades vers
Cfoacwator aet to bo install-0 on SilO d to preaco /0 kV,curont at z_r_ ca;otity
The unit 7,,ms t.) be initalled aftcr tae enle:,:gelDent or the buAldim and
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gmxezter also requirod a% anierfment .'ansfoynner tltatL)n 2o2 the ?
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