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  2. 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 ...

  3. Coal-fired power station - Wikipedia

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    A coal-fired power station or coal power plant is a thermal power station which burns coal to generate electricity. Worldwide there are about 2,500 coal-fired power stations, [ 1 ] on average capable of generating a gigawatt each.

  4. List of tallest cooling towers - Wikipedia

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    Westphalia Power Plant, Unit D cooling tower [17] Coal power station Germany: Hamm: 546 ft (166 m) 2009 Westphalia Power Plant, Unit E cooling tower [18] Coal power station Germany: Hamm: 546 ft (166 m) 2009 Nine Mile Point Nuclear Generating Station [19] Nuclear power plant United States: Scriba, NY: 543 ft (166 m) 1988

  5. 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 ...

  6. 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 ...

  7. Conemaugh Generating Station - Wikipedia

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    Conemaugh has two hyperbolic natural draft cooling towers which provide recirculating water to cool and condense the steam and to limit the amount of water needed from the river. The plant is one of several in the area, situated near Pennsylvania deep mines and is basically a twin of the Keystone Generating Station, partially owned by PSEG Power.

  8. Athlone Power Station - Wikipedia

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    The site stopped generating power in 2003 and was decommissioned. [1] However, in 2021 plans were announced to re-use the site. [2] Athlone Power Station was situated on the N2 freeway into the city, consisted of a large brick generation building, two 99m brick chimneys, and two cooling towers, fed by reclaimed water from a

  9. Dickerson Generating Station - Wikipedia

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    A new stack and cooling system reduced the amount of waste heat going into the cooling water discharge channel. In 2013, NRG filed notice that it planned to decommission the coal generators by 2017, citing state emissions requirements. [7] In May 2015, NRG filed notice to delay deactivation until May 2019. [8]