Syrdarya Power Plant is a
natural gas
Natural gas (also called fossil gas or simply gas) is a naturally occurring mixture of gaseous hydrocarbons consisting primarily of methane in addition to various smaller amounts of other higher alkanes. Low levels of trace gases like carbo ...
-fired power plant located in
Shirin
Shirin ( fa, شیرین; died 628) was a Christian wife of the Sasanian King of Kings (''shahanshah'') Khosrow II (). In the revolution after the death of Khosrow's father Hormizd IV, the General Bahram Chobin took power over the Persian empire. ...
,
Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan (, ; uz, Ozbekiston, italic=yes / , ; russian: Узбекистан), officially the Republic of Uzbekistan ( uz, Ozbekiston Respublikasi, italic=yes / ; russian: Республика Узбекистан), is a doubly landlocked co ...
. Its ten units were commissioned in 1972–1981. The installed capacity of the power plant is 3,050 MW.
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Modernization of the Syrdarya Power Plant a been financed by international donors. The
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in cooperation with the
Asian Development Bank
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is a regional development bank established on 19 December 1966, which is headquartered in the Ortigas Center located in the city of Mandaluyong, Metro Manila, Philippines. The bank also maintains 31 field offic ...
financed reconstruction of two generation units by
Siemens.
[
][
][
][
] In 2000, the Syrdarya Energy Company, now part of
Uzbekenergo, was created on the basis of the Syrdarya Power Plant.
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The power plant has 3
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 ...
s, the tallest of which is .
See also
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List of towers
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List of chimneys
This is a list of the tallest chimneys of the world.
Use
Although many kinds of industrial facilities have tall chimneys most of the chimneys with heights of 200 metres and more are part of thermal, especially coal-fired power stations. Only a f ...
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List of tallest freestanding structures in the world
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References
{{Supertall chimneys
Buildings and structures completed in 1972
1972 in the Soviet Union
Natural gas-fired power stations in Uzbekistan
Power stations built in the Soviet Union