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  2. Cooling pond - Wikipedia

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    The Columbia Energy Center in Pacific, Wisconsin is a coal fired power plant with a capacity of 1000 MW. A dual cooling system is used for heat rejection that consists of a cooling pond and two cooling towers. The pond and towers are connected in a parallel arrangement to help dissipate thermal energy at expedited rates. [8]

  3. Cooling tower - Wikipedia

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    A typical large refinery processing 40,000 metric tonnes of crude oil per day (300,000 barrels (48,000 m 3) per day) circulates about 80,000 cubic metres of water per hour through its cooling tower system. The world's tallest cooling tower is the 210 metres (690 ft) tall cooling tower of the Pingshan II Power Station in Huaibei, Anhui Province ...

  4. Coal-fired power station - Wikipedia

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    Coal power plant wastestreams. Coal burning power plants kill many thousands of people every year with their emissions of particulates, microscopic air pollutants that enter human lungs and other human organs and induce a variety of adverse medical conditions, including asthma, heart disease, low birth weight and cancers.

  5. Power plant engineering - Wikipedia

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    Cooling tower Nuclear power plant. Power plant engineering, abbreviated as TPTL, is a branch of the field of energy engineering, and is defined as the engineering and technology required for the production of an electric power station. [1] Technique is focused on power generation for industry and community, not just for household electricity ...

  6. List of tallest cooling towers - Wikipedia

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    Watts Bar Nuclear Plant, cooling tower 1 [26] Nuclear power plant United States: Rhea County, TN: 506 ft (154 m) 1977 Base diameter of 123 m / 405 ft. Unit 1 did not enter into service until 1996, the cooling towers was completed by 1977 [27] Watts Bar Nuclear Plant, cooling tower 2 [26] Nuclear power plant United States: Rhea County, TN: 506 ...

  7. Thermal power station - Wikipedia

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    A thermal power station, also known as a thermal power plant, is a type of power station in which the heat energy generated from various fuel sources (e.g., coal, natural gas, nuclear fuel, etc.) is converted to electrical energy. [1]

  8. Pingshan Power Station - Wikipedia

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    The Pingshan power station is a large modern coal-fired power station in China. The power station is divided into two phases with phase one consisting of two 660 MW units, each with scrubbing systems and cooling towers. [1] Phase two has one ultra-supercritical secondary reheat unit with a 1350 MW capacity.

  9. Cottam power stations - Wikipedia

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    The total requirement for circulating water at Cottam power station was approximately 259.1 million litres per hour (57 million gallons per hour), and to meet the conditions of the River Board in respect of temperature and water extraction the station was designed to work with a closed circuit cooling tower system drawing only purge and make-up ...