832 Comments for Westport Generating Station

Ole #5 is right on time.

Yes unreal! Gray i all hues, shades and tints.................. H U G E yes!

Thanks for the new gallery & another neat place to look at, Motts.

Good shot of it, Motts.

It is a good number, yes, since a Baker's dozen is 13, so you get one more for free.

LAMPS! How good! Always the lamps. Just love it!

Lucky you were not derailed here, Motts. Stayed right on track, hmm?

Oh - stunning again! Thank you! Gasp sometimes, that´s nice! Be well and safe!

Yep, since sugar dust can ignite too, good rule to have here as well.

Wow, Motts, going for a creepy vibe here? ^_^

These kind of remind me of the ones in the Indiana Jones movie " TheTemple of Doom".

"Roll on two!"

If you have more brains than a lobotomized politician, you will not stick any appendages through that hole, nor put your face up to it, and CERTAINLY NOT 'dive in'!!!

Although I would need to see it to confirm, I strongly suspect this is the steam line to the boiler feedwater pumps. Since the 60s, BFPs have generally been driven by electrical motors. However, in the early days, steam was extracted from the intermediate stages of the steam turbine and used to power the BPFs. (This is why they kiind of look like mini-steam turbines - the previous shot shows this a little better). Since the pipe has an expansion loop (needed because it is very thick walled alloy steel-chormium pile and not flexible during thermal expansion and contraction as others have pointed out) and insulated, it is most likely a steam line.

Neat site; it appears I'm abit behind the main following. Having built power plants all my life, I believe these are the traveling water screens that remove debris, small fish, and the like from the cooling water used in the condenser under the steam turbine. The cooling ater never mixes with the steam from the turbine, but is condensed back to water and pumped back to the boiler. The traveling water screens dump the debris into a tray that is cleaned o na regular basis. Having been abandoned, the cleaning process halted and plant matter that required a little light and a moist environment has thrived, and thus the green. Usually these are below the level of water inthe Bay, so the intake and discharege tunnels and thus the water screens would always have a source of water even during abamnonment.