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1Plant Bowen — is a coal fired, steam turbine electric generating facility located in Euharlee, GA approximately 9 miles WSW from Cartersville, GA. Bowen ranked 3rd in the nation for net generation in 2006 producing over 22,630,000 MWh. Plant Bowen is connected …
2turbine — /terr bin, buyn/, n. any of various machines having a rotor, usually with vanes or blades, driven by the pressure, momentum, or reactive thrust of a moving fluid, as steam, water, hot gases, or air, either occurring in the form of free jets or as …
3Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant — Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station, viewed from the roof of a building in Prypiat, Ukraine …
4Maintenance of boiler plant — (expenses) The cost of labor, material, and expenses incurred in the maintenance of a steam plant. Includes furnaces; boilers; coal, ash handling, and coal preparation equipment; steam and feed water piping; and boiler apparatus and accessories …
5Fossil fuel power plant — A fossil fuel power plant burns fossil fuels such as coal, natural gas or petroleum (oil) to produce electricity.Fossil fuel power plants are designed on a large scale for continuous operation. In many countries, such plants provide most of the… …
6Nuclear power plant — This article is about electricity generation from nuclear power. For the general topic of nuclear power, see Nuclear power. A nuclear power station. The nuclear reactor is contained inside the cylindrical containment buildings to the right left… …
7Marble Hill Nuclear Power Plant — Marble Hill Nuclear Power Station is a nuclear power plant in Saluda Township, Jefferson County, near Hanover, Indiana, USA (N38° 36.01 W085° 26.74 ) . It was first proposed in 1973 by Public Service Indiana (PSI) and was finally closed due to… …
8Peaking power plant — Peaking power plants, also known as peaker plants, are power plants that generally run only when there is a high demand, known as peak demand, for electricity. In the United States, this often occurs in the afternoon, especially during the summer …
9Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant — Infobox Nuclear power plant Picture = Kashiwazaki Kariwa cropped.jpg Pic des = Aerial view. The controlled area where waste heat is dumped into the ocean can be seen fairly clearly. There is a buffer zone of green space between the plant and… …
10Steam 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… …
