[Lowfer] Power Outages

Mon, 18 Aug 2003 22:00:32 -0400

At 03:47 PM 08/18/2003, [email protected] wrote:
>Maybe some on the
> > list
> > are power industry savvy and could answer.
> >
> >
>
>the problem wit the plants is when something producing lots of energy all
>of a sudden
>having no place for that to go. Yep it is just electricity but the
>coal/gas/nuke
>is putting out the power and something has to happen to lessen that. You
>can scram a nuke
>but how do you control a coal plant  " Henry close the damper " Or "Tilly
>Bolt the door " HAR

What you do is release the super heated steam that turns the turbines
(that turn the generators)
If you look close at some power generating stations you will see many 
vertical pipes
coming out of the roof, all with slant-cut openings.

In emergency shutdowns, the volatile steam is switched to the roof pipes and
"such a noise you've never heard!"     The reason for the slant cut pipe 
openings
is to eliminate (as much as possible) audio resonances.

w8au   (ret. First Energy)