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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Modern power station practice: incorporating modern power system practice/British Electricity International.— 3rd ed. p. cm.

Includes index.

1. Electric power-plants. I. British Electricity Inter­ national.

TK1191.M49 1990 62.31'21 — dc20 90-43748

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

British Electricity International

Modern power station practice.—3rd. ed.

1.Electric power-plants. Design and construction I. Title II. Central Electricity Generating Board 621.3121.

ISBN 0-08-040511-8 (Volume A)

ISBN 0-08-040510-X (Set)

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Colour Plates

(between pp 66 and 67)

Satellite imagery of thermal discharges from power stations

Transport of heavy or abnormal loads

Ash disposal site

Cooling towers at Drax power station

Hidden power: Dinorwig pumped storage power station

View of Drax power station nearing completion

Didcot coal-fired station landscape

Drax 6 x 660 MW coal-fired station

Littlebrook D 3 x 660 MW oil-fired station

Kingsnorth 4 x 500 MW dual-fired station

Oldbury 2 x 313 MW magnox station

Heysham 2 2 x 660 MW AGR station

Ffestiniog 4 x 90 MW pumped storage station

Kidder 1 x 5.5 MW hydro station

Cowes 2 x 70 MW gas-turbine station

Leicester 2 x 70 MW gas-turbine station

Wind turbines at Carmarthen Bay site

Turbine island concept

View of pumphouse and intake screens — Liltlebrook D

Bucket wheel stocking-out reclaiming machine

(between pp 242 and 243)

Light cable tool boring rig

Large rotary drilling rig

Detail of rotary drilling

Rotary core drilling of an upwardly-inclined borehole in an existing dam

Interior of electric static cone penetrometer truck showing data processing equipment Reclaim hopper under construction

West Thurrock coal-fired station

Lower stressing gallery' for AGR pressure vessel

Precipitators