Power station (UEB Contracted)
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- Synopsis
- This is an image of the main elements of a power station complex, showing a boiler house, turbine and generator hall, and a cooling tower, all connected by pipework. There is a locator dot shown, which will be at the top left of the page when the image is the right way up.At the top left of the page, smoke is rising from the tall chimney of the boiler house down the page. The boiler house has five windows. In its furnace, which is not shown, it burns gas or solid fuel to boil water. The steam produced is sent at high pressure through the pipe on the right to the building with five windows in the middle of the page. Inside here, turbines are turned at high speed by the steam and these, in turn, power electrical generators. Both the turbines and generators are not shown.The waste steam from the turbines is piped to the large cooling tower on the right of the page, where it condenses into water. The cooling tower has massive inward curving walls arcing up to the top of the page where some steam is escaping into the sky. The condensed steam is pumped back to the boiler house, through the pipe shown at the bottom of the page, to be used again.Sometimes, waste heat from the cooling process is used to warm nearby buildings.
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- Date of Addition:
- 08/04/16
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- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Science
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
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- This is a copyrighted book.