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Great Western locomotives with their distinctive copper-rimmed chimneys The new-build steam locomotive Leviathan, a 4-4-0 with a large spark-arresting chimney. The chimney (smokestack or stack in American and Canadian English) is the part of a steam locomotive through which smoke leaves the boiler.
The same day was the final day of construction on the stack, with the construction fully completed by the evening of August 21, 1970. [9] The stack entered into full operation in 1972. [1] From the date of its completion until the Ekibastuz GRES-2 chimney was constructed in 1987, [10] it was the world's tallest smokestack. Between the years ...
A flue gas stack at GRES-2 Power Station in Ekibastuz, Kazakhstan, the tallest of its kind in the world (420 meters or 1,380 feet) [1]. A flue-gas stack, also known as a smoke stack, chimney stack or simply as a stack, is a type of chimney, a vertical pipe, channel or similar structure through which flue gases are exhausted to the outside air.
Devon was founded in 1971 by John Nichols (1914-2008) and his son, J. Larry Nichols. [4] In 1988, the company became a public company via an initial public offering. [4]In October 2012, the company completed construction of its current headquarters, the 50-story Devon Energy Center in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma and closed its office in the Allen Center in Downtown Houston.
A smokestack industry is a basic, usually cyclical, heavy industry. [1] The factories stereo-typically used in such industries have smoke stacks, hence the name, and produce a high volume of pollution. Example industries include: Iron and steelworks; Automotive; Chemical; Power generation
The Somerset Nuclear Power Plant was proposed by New York State Electric & Gas in 1974 as two General Electric 1,200 MW units, but the project was canceled in 1975. [8]In 1975, NYSEG announced it was changing its construction plans because a geologic fault had been found 40 miles away in Attica. [9]
Charlie Noble is the smoke stack on a ship's galley. Around 1850, a British merchant service captain, Charles Noble, upon discovering that the stack of his ship's galley was made of copper, ordered that it be kept bright. From then onwards the ship's crew then started referring to the galley smokestack as the "Charlie Noble".
Hamon Custodis claims to have built a 707 ft (215 m) [14] stack in 1953, [22] but there are no references to the location or client of this/these stack(s). Skyscraperpage indicates the 846-foot-tall (258 m) chimney of Omskaya Cogeneration Plant #4 was built in 1965, [ 23 ] but it is likely that this date is referring to the construction of the ...