Teruel Power Plant
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Teruel Power Plant is a lignite fired power plant in Teruel
, Aragon
, Spain. The flue gas stack
of Teruel Power Plant is 343 metres (1,125.3 ft) high. Lignite
room is developed, and contains up to 7% sulphurs. Teruel Power Plant has three generating units with each a capacity 350 megawatts. In 1992, Teruel Power Plant was equipped with filters, so now more than 90% of the detrimental sulfur dioxide
are filtered out from smoke.
Teruel
Teruel is a town in Aragon, eastern Spain, and the capital of Teruel Province. It has a population of 34,240 in 2006 making it one of the least populated provincial capitals in the country...
, Aragon
Aragon
Aragon is a modern autonomous community in Spain, coextensive with the medieval Kingdom of Aragon. Located in northeastern Spain, the Aragonese autonomous community comprises three provinces : Huesca, Zaragoza, and Teruel. Its capital is Zaragoza...
, Spain. 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 Teruel Power Plant is 343 metres (1,125.3 ft) high. Lignite
Lignite
Lignite, often referred to as brown coal, or Rosebud coal by Northern Pacific Railroad,is a soft brown fuel with characteristics that put it somewhere between coal and peat...
room is developed, and contains up to 7% sulphurs. Teruel Power Plant has three generating units with each a capacity 350 megawatts. In 1992, Teruel Power Plant was equipped with filters, so now more than 90% of the detrimental sulfur dioxide
Sulfur dioxide
Sulfur dioxide is the chemical compound with the formula . It is released by volcanoes and in various industrial processes. Since coal and petroleum often contain sulfur compounds, their combustion generates sulfur dioxide unless the sulfur compounds are removed before burning the fuel...
are filtered out from smoke.