steam-generating installation
1Steam turbine — A rotor of a modern steam turbine, used in a power plant A steam turbine is a mechanical device that extracts thermal energy from pressurized steam, and converts it into rotary motion. Its modern manifestation was invented by Sir Charles Parsons… …
2New York City steam system — Lexington Avenue Steam Rising from New York City Streets The New York City steam system is a district heating system which takes steam produced by steam generating stations and carries it under the streets of Manhattan to heat, cool, or supply… …
3Navajo Generating Station — Navajo Generating Station …
4Holyrood Thermal Generating Station — The Holyrood Thermal Electric Generating Station built by Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro Corporation is located near the community of Holyrood, in Conception Bay, Newfoundland, Canada. The initial installation included two 150 megawatt (MW)… …
5Solar Energy Generating Systems — (SEGS) is the largest solar energy generating facility in the world. It consists of nine solar power plants in California s Mojave Desert, where insolation is among the best available in the United States. FPL Energy operates and partially owns… …
6Monticello Nuclear Generating Plant — Monticello Nuclear Generating Plant …
7Boiler — For the Limp Bizkit song, see Boiler (song). A portable boiler (preserved, Poland) …
8nuclear reactor — Physics. reactor (def. 4). Also called nuclear pile. [1940 45] * * * Device that can initiate and control a self sustaining series of nuclear fission reactions. Neutrons released in one fission reaction may strike other heavy nuclei, causing them …
9Recovery boiler — is the part of Kraft process of pulping where chemicals for white liquor are recovered and reformed from black liquor. In the process lignin of the wood, bound in black liquor at this phase, is burned and heat generated. The heat is usually used… …
10Gas turbine — Microturbine redirects here. For turbines in electricity, see Small wind turbine. For turbines driven by the flow of gas, see Turbine. A typical axial flow gas turbine turbojet, the J85, sectioned for display. Flow is left to right, multistage… …
