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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.
The stack effect or chimney effect is the movement of air into and out of buildings through unsealed openings, chimneys, flue-gas stacks, or other purposefully designed openings or containers, resulting from air buoyancy. Buoyancy occurs due to a difference in indoor-to-outdoor air density resulting from temperature and moisture differences ...
The principal details not shared with the main house are the round stair towers, the absence of dressed masonry to the entrances, and the deliberately contrary vertical walls with battered chimney stacks. The Artist's Cottage has battered walls and vertical stacks. Apart from the novel design of spiral staircase, the interiors are plain.
Chimneys are typically vertical, or as near as possible to vertical, to ensure that the gases flow smoothly, drawing air into the combustion in what is known as the stack, or chimney effect. The space inside a chimney is called the flue .
The overall height of the stack is 585 feet 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 inches (178.35 m) (≈ 585 feet), [B] including a brick chimney 555 feet 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 inches (169.20 m) (≈ 555 feet) tall and the downhill side of a concrete foundation 30 feet (9.1 m) high. This was the height when new in 1918, but loss of the terra cotta that covered the top course of ...
There is no references to indicate the current 600 ft (180 m) stack was built at that time and the plant itself has been reconstructed multiple times over its history. Furthermore, the stack is built of concrete, which was not known to have been used in chimney construction until the 1930s. 2 Chimneys of Coleson Cove Generating Station: 600 ft ...
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 brick chimney breast. A chimney breast is a portion of a chimney which projects forward from a wall to accommodate a fireplace. [1] Typically on the ground floor of a structure, the masonry extends upwards, containing a flue which carries smoke out of the building through a chimney stack. [2]