1,689 Comments for Eagle River Power Station

its a condenser http://www.jsmea.or.jp...-e/showa/indexE.html

that is definitely the condenser. Here is a smaller version of one recognize the hatches on it. http://www.jsmea.or.jp...-e/showa/indexE.html

my guess is its a condenser as there does not seem to be any flue tubes or a fire box. also it would be odd for a boiler to be in the same room as the turbine. any closeup pics of the boiler/condenser

OH is that an elevator???

WOW I can imagine a mass of soldiers in the pit below listening to a satanic dictator giving his/ her speech from the control room balcony.

Nice shot Master MOTTS

that would be the steam temp gauge I was talking about in the last pic.

Turbines need very dry steam to function at peak performance as well as to allow for max operating life of the parts.

oops sorry hit the button by mistake so as i was saying...

for temperature readings from the steam inlet and outlet as well as from the turbine blades.

If its a steam related question Hawks your man!!!

Hmm... If these are anything like the gauge stations in piston driven steam plants it would appear that those are pressure gauges for the main steam inlet and outlet ( adjusting the pressure allows for precise and tiny adjustments to the turbines RPM's ) a as well as tachometers to measure the RPM's of the turbine and most likely a thermometer for temperature r

I never expected to find pictures of an industrial site so interesting or moving. This is a fantastic gallery. Thanks for helping me to see the beauty in this building.

I get kind of an art-deco feel from all of the archways. Really beautiful

Exciters.

Scooter has it right, IMO. The condensers are *under* the generator turbines, and this looks more like a chiller-type heat exchanger than a condenser. I could be wrong, but I don;t think so.

A great view of the other end of the condenser. The vertical line down the center is the demarcation for the direction of water flow; one side incoming, the other outgoing, with a partition of sorts in between, most likely attached to the missing condenser head.

It most certainly is a condenser. I was a nuclear mechanic on a submarine, and our steam propulsion and electrical generation worked on the same principle. Steam exhausts from the bottom of the turbine down into the condenser, and yes, there is a slight vacuum in the condenser, due to the steam condensing. What we see in this photo is the interior of one of the condenser heads, and as was stated above, all of those tiny holes in the wall at the back are condenser tubes, and the condensing steam passes around them.

That's the biggest soap dispenser I've ever seen!