Rzeszów Power Station
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Rzeszow Power Station is a coal-fired thermal power station
in Rzeszów
, Poland
. At the first stage four units with a thermal capacity of 25 MWt each were built between 1976 and 1983. At the second stage, two units of WP-120 type with a total thermal capacity of 280 MWt were installed between 1983 and 1988. The third stage foresaw of installation of two BC-50 units; however, this project was canceled. In 2003, a gas-and-steam BGP-100 unit was commissioned replacing one WP-120 unit.
The flue gas stack
of Rzeszow Power Station is 203 metres (666 ft) tall.
Thermal power station
A thermal power station is a power plant in which the prime mover is steam driven. Water is heated, turns into steam and spins a steam turbine which drives an electrical generator. After it passes through the turbine, the steam is condensed in a condenser and recycled to where it was heated; this...
in Rzeszów
Rzeszów
Rzeszów is a city in southeastern Poland with a population of 179,455 in 2010. It is located on both sides of the Wisłok River, in the heartland of the Sandomierska Valley...
, Poland
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
. At the first stage four units with a thermal capacity of 25 MWt each were built between 1976 and 1983. At the second stage, two units of WP-120 type with a total thermal capacity of 280 MWt were installed between 1983 and 1988. The third stage foresaw of installation of two BC-50 units; however, this project was canceled. In 2003, a gas-and-steam BGP-100 unit was commissioned replacing one WP-120 unit.
The flue gas stack
Flue gas stack
A flue-gas stack is a type of chimney, a vertical pipe, channel or similar structure through which combustion product gases called flue gases are exhausted to the outside air. Flue gases are produced when coal, oil, natural gas, wood or any other fuel is combusted in an industrial furnace, a power...
of Rzeszow Power Station is 203 metres (666 ft) tall.