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The Kozienice Power Station is a coal-fired Power Engineering International news article
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thermal power station
A thermal power station is a type of power station in which heat energy is converted to electrical energy. In a steam-generating cycle heat is used to boil water in a large pressure vessel to produce high-pressure steam, which drives a stea ...
in Świerże Górne
Świerże Górne () is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Kozienice, within Kozienice County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. It lies approximately north-west of Kozienice and south-east of Warsaw.
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near Kozienice
Kozienice (; yi, קאזשניץ ''Kozhnits''; german: Koschnitz) is a town in eastern Poland with 21,500 inhabitants (1995). Located four miles from the Vistula, it is the capital of Kozienice County.
Even though Kozienice is part of Lesser Pol ...
, Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populous ...
. It is Poland's second largest power station with an installed capacity of 4,016 MW.
The power station has one high flue gas stack
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 combustion product gases called flue gases are exhausted to the outside air. Flue g ...
, which is one of Poland's tallest free standing structures, and two high flue gas stacks. A further remarkable feature of it is that the powerlines running away from its switchyard are built as a roofstand on the top of the power station building. On 4 December 2013 four workers died in a fall, as a result of a platform failure within one of the chimneys./ref>
See also
*Bełchatów Power Station
The Bełchatów Power Station is a coal-fired power station near Bełchatów, Poland. It is the largest thermal power station in Europe. The power station is owned and operated by PGE GiEK Oddział Elektrownia Bełchatów, a subsidiary of Polska ...
* Jaworzno Power Station
The Jaworzno Power Station is a complex of coal-fired thermal power stations at Jaworzno, Poland.
The largest plant of the Jaworzno power plant complex is called Jaworzno III. It has an installed electrical generating capacity of 1,345 MW, as w ...
* Połaniec Power Station
Połaniec Power Station is a coal-fired and biomass power station near Połaniec in Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, Poland. It consists of 8 units each with a generation capacity of 225 MW. The power station went into service between 1979 and 19 ...
* Łaziska Power Station
Łaziska Power Station ( pl, Elektrownia Łaziska) is a thermal power station in Łaziska Górne, Poland. The first Łaziska Power Station was inaugurated in 1917. In 1929, an 87.1 MW unit was inaugurated making it to the largest power stati ...
* Katowice Power Station
Katowice Power Station ( pl, Elektrociepłownia Katowice) is a coal-fired power station in Katowice, Poland. It consists of four units. Two units each with a generation capacity of 144 MWt went in service respectively in 1985, and a third u ...
* List of towers
Several extant building fulfill the engineering definition of a tower: "a tall human structure, always taller than it is wide, for public or regular operational access by humans, but not for living in or office work, and are ''self-supporting' ...
* List of power stations in Poland
The following page lists all power stations in Poland.
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Hydroelectric
Pumped Storage Hydroelectric
Wind
See also
* List of power stations in Europe
* List of largest power stations in the world
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References
External links
* http://www.skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?b53779ENEA Wytwarzanie sp. z o.o., "Kozienice" Power Station
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Kozienice
Kozienice (; yi, קאזשניץ ''Kozhnits''; german: Koschnitz) is a town in eastern Poland with 21,500 inhabitants (1995). Located four miles from the Vistula, it is the capital of Kozienice County.
Even though Kozienice is part of Lesser Pol ...
Chimneys in Poland
Kozienice County
Buildings and structures in Masovian Voivodeship