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Explosion Injures Six at Ohio’s Stuart Station
Power Engineering ^
| 1/11/2017
| Editors of Power Engineering
Posted on 01/12/2017 11:45:30 PM PST by greeneyes
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Haven't found any word of the cause yet. Haven't really seen anything in mainstream news either.
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posted on
01/12/2017 11:45:30 PM PST
by
greeneyes
To: greeneyes
Obama said he was going to shut down coal plants.
I think he has a lot of time on his hands right now.
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posted on
01/12/2017 11:47:31 PM PST
by
UCANSEE2
(Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
To: greeneyes
President 0bama quickly announced, "It is NOT terrorism!" approximately .000485 seconds after the last explosion was heard, during which time he apparently completed an exhaustive investigation on his own.
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posted on
01/12/2017 11:58:09 PM PST
by
Blue Jays
( Rock hard ~ Ride free)
To: greeneyes
I used to drive past a huge plant like that on I75 passing thru Dayton. Wonder if that is the same one, it was on the right heading south, and there was a steep rockface on the left a bit South. Ah, memories...of 1975.
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posted on
01/13/2017 12:01:32 AM PST
by
W.
(A funny thing happened on the way to the forum...)
To: W.
Oops, Aberdeen is a ways farther South from Dayton. Derp.
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posted on
01/13/2017 12:08:42 AM PST
by
W.
(A funny thing happened on the way to the forum...)
To: greeneyes
Coal dust can be explosive, just like flour dust or sugar dust.
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posted on
01/13/2017 12:41:31 AM PST
by
VanShuyten
("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
To: W.
Aberdeen isn’t anywhere near Dayton.
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posted on
01/13/2017 12:42:05 AM PST
by
Boatperson83
(Enemies of the Jones Act are Enemies of America!)
To: VanShuyten
I knew about sugar and flour, but never thought about coal.
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posted on
01/13/2017 12:47:07 AM PST
by
greeneyes
To: Blue Jays
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posted on
01/13/2017 1:29:37 AM PST
by
Eleutheria5
(“If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
To: greeneyes
I used toultrasonically inspect boilers at power plants and paper mills a few decades ago. Probably boiler tubes got too thin or a weld seam failed and the tubes burst letting water inside...pretty dangerous.
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posted on
01/13/2017 2:03:29 AM PST
by
jacknhoo
(Luke 12:51. Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
To: W.
the plant your remembering in Dayton was razed a long time ago. The Aberdeen plant is along the Ohio river. As I remember it was built initially as a nuke plant but got too much grief and remade a coal plant.
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posted on
01/13/2017 2:40:57 AM PST
by
Recon Dad
(Force Recon Dad)
To: greeneyes
I knew about sugar and flour, but never thought about coal. Early engines driving the industrial revolution were powered by coal dust.
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posted on
01/13/2017 3:16:37 AM PST
by
spokeshave
(In the Thatch Weave,..Trump's Wing Man is Truth.)
To: Recon Dad
I just remember that Dayton plant was startlingly huge at first sight, at least to this then 19-year old. :)
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posted on
01/13/2017 3:28:11 AM PST
by
W.
(A funny thing happened on the way to the forum...)
To: Boatperson83
Yes, thanks I looked at a map, but after I commented. Heh!
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posted on
01/13/2017 3:32:47 AM PST
by
W.
(A funny thing happened on the way to the forum...)
To: greeneyes; All
Black smoke from the stack would indicate to me a loss of ignition in the boiler. Then, when ignition was restored, all that unburned coal dust went KERBLOOEY! It happened at the Independence Steam Station here in Arkansas several years ago-about a $50 million fix, IIRC...
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posted on
01/13/2017 3:41:19 AM PST
by
mozarky2
(Ya never stand so tall as when ya stoop to stomp a statist...)
To: W.
“I used to drive past a huge plant like that on I75 passing thru Dayton.”
Probably so - 3 of those plants put out as much electrical power as all of the solar installations in the US put together. Even at that, the plant still puts out well under 1% of US demand...not nice to take a plant that size off-line and hopefully they fix it quickly so it can get back to doing its job.
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posted on
01/13/2017 4:04:36 AM PST
by
BobL
(In Honor of the NeverTrumpers, I declare myself as FR's first 'Imitation NeverTrumper')
To: greeneyes
I seem to recall reading somewhere that methane and coal dust were the two biggest causes of mine explosions in years past.
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posted on
01/13/2017 4:06:30 AM PST
by
tomkat
To: Blue Jays
A non-terrorist explosion at a coal-fired plant is possible: Most likely is a coal dust explosion within (or above) the coal pulverizers that receive finely crushed coal from the feed hoppers, then blow that coal-and-air powder mix up into the burners. They are notoriously dirty, and even grain elevators can blow up if the wrong powder-air mix ratios are created.
Hydrogen surrounds and cools the generators - that can leak and be set up. Other water treatment and control chemicals are not likely to explode, but they are volatile and some are deadly themselves like ammonia.
Too little info in this story.
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posted on
01/13/2017 4:14:56 AM PST
by
Robert A Cook PE
(I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
To: Robert A. Cook, PE
I know. I was providing levity at President 0bama's expense.
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posted on
01/13/2017 5:19:51 AM PST
by
Blue Jays
( Rock hard ~ Ride free)
To: mozarky2
I tend to agree with you. I’m glad no one was killed.
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posted on
01/13/2017 5:22:37 AM PST
by
Robert A Cook PE
(I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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