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Cooling towers on power stations - why?

Stephen Biddle
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I was working on a power station in Oman last month and it was gas fired with condensing steam turbines - no evaporation.  This week I'm working on a coal fired one in Poland, which has cooling towers and evaporation.  Is it something to do with the gas or just that they have no water in Oman?


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Stephen
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    I honestly don't know the answer to your question, but it reminded me of something my late father said (he was very well educated, and a bottomless trove of knowledge with a great eye for a wind-up). When I was very young I lived not too far from the Chapelcross power station. The cooling towers, billowing steam all day long, were a source of mystery to the five-year-old me, and when I asked the great man what they were, I was reliably informed they were a cloud factory...
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    I honestly don't know the answer to your question, but it reminded me of something my late father said (he was very well educated, and a bottomless trove of knowledge with a great eye for a wind-up). When I was very young I lived not too far from the Chapelcross power station. The cooling towers, billowing steam all day long, were a source of mystery to the five-year-old me, and when I asked the great man what they were, I was reliably informed they were a cloud factory...
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