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  2. Chicago Tunnel Company - Wikipedia

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    Surface railroad cars dumped coal into bins under the track, from which chutes led down to the tunnel. A tunnel car could be loaded with a full load of 3 + 1 ⁄ 2 short tons (3.18 t; 3.13 long tons) of coal in two seconds. [17] [79] [80] Coal was carried in side-dump cars, from which it was dumped into a hopper below each customer's boiler room.

  3. Bituminous waterproofing - Wikipedia

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    Replacing the roofing felt on a Scout hall in Wales. Bituminous waterproofing systems are designed to protect residential and commercial buildings.Bitumen (asphalt or coal-tar pitch) is a material made up of organic liquids that are highly sticky, viscous, and waterproof. [1]

  4. Fisk Generating Station - Wikipedia

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    Three hundred firefighters had responded to a fire that started at Throop Street where a coal chute conveyor emerged from an underground passage. The fire spread along the coal conveyor to a control room, switch house, boiler and turbine buildings and caused $8 million in damages.

  5. Porosity sealing - Wikipedia

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    In the course of sealing castings against porosity, the parts would be processed through the following four stations: Impregnation Chamber: The operator would seal the chamber and draw a vacuum. This would remove air in the porosity and leak path in the casting wall. Parts would then be covered with sealant, and positive pressure applied.

  6. Coaling tower - Wikipedia

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    A coaling tower, coal stage, coaling plant or coaling station is a facility used to load coal as fuel into railway steam locomotives. Coaling towers were often sited at motive power depots or locomotive maintenance shops. [1] In the early years of railways, coal was shovelled by hand into locomotive tenders.

  7. Duke shuts natgas plant due to Florence floods, coal ash leak ...

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    Duke Energy Corp said it shut down a North Carolina natural gas plant due to flooding as the deluge of water continued in the aftermath of Hurricane Florence, which has killed more than 40 people.

  8. Coal breaker - Wikipedia

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    A coal breaking plant, depicted on a postcard in 1907. A coal breaker is a coal processing plant which breaks coal into various useful sizes. Coal breakers also remove impurities from the coal (typically slate) and deposit them into a culm dump. The coal breaker is a forerunner of the modern coal preparation plant. [1]

  9. Underground coal gasification - Wikipedia

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    The design has a single casing of tubing strings enclosed and filled with an inert gas to allow for leak monitoring, corrosion prevention and heat transfer. A series of horizontally drilled lateral oxidant delivery lines into the coal and a single or multiple syngas recovery pipeline(s) allow for a larger area of coal to be combusted at one time.