This abandoned Downdraught Brick Kiln with two 9m and one 5m high chimney seems to have been left idle for a few years, its kiln roof had already collapsed even with a protective zinc roof over it.
Brick is now much sought after for house construction in rural areas in Sarawak with escalating wood prices with timber running out due to over logging and land clearing for plantations. It's a real big lost as these virgin forest just can't be replaced overnight, it should have been done in a more sustainable way instead so that there is always some left for our future generations .
This 100m high power plant chimney is build in the early 80s
to replace the decommisioned coal and later heavy fuel fired steam turbines,
running on either diesel or medium fuel oils the new Siemens Gas Turbine
needed the height to channel off the polutants.
It was later converted to a Combined Cycle Plant running normally by gas
with diesel as standby fuel,
where the high temperature exhaust gas of about 550 deg C
is further channeled to heat up a boiler
which feeds steam to a Parsons steam turbine generator.
From an initial 210mw earlier it is now able to generate another 105mw
to bring a new total of 315mw of electricity.
Besides being more efficient it also generated less pollutant since it is now running on gas.
This photo taken on the 10th Aug 2005 when Klang was under a 500 API and the one above on the 20th Aug after some heavy rain put off the forest fires in neighbouring Sumatra. http://www.doe.gov.my/apims/
This additional 4 chimneys of about 40m high are from 4 ABB 13E1 GT commissioned in 1990s.
photos with and without the dreaded haze.
This march 1983 photo of the chimney when the new plant was under construction.
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This one taken in july 1983,with the machine hall building almost complete.
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This is the original Power Station Building which still exist today and is being turned into a Repair Center for power plant parts.
This old building have been used for shooting of many films and music video
when it was left vacant,
the most famous of all is by German rock band Scorpions.
Watch the video below.
This remaining Babcock & Wilcox boiler was eventually scrapped in year 2000 if i am not wrong.
The Boiler control panel.
The blackstart diesel engine.
The empty Boiler House
Made from steel beams with rivets to hold them together and British made bricks as wall.
An old photo of the power plant in the fifties,the first coal fired power plant in Malaysia.
The old Connaught Bridge(bailey bridge) and railway bridge in the foreground.
Gelugor Power Station chimney is 115m high.
This new chimney was only build when the plant was upgraded from 220mw open cycle to 330mw output combine cycle mode.
A new 7km gas pipeline from the mainland was also added to enable the plant to run on gas with diesel as standby fuel.
