1,689 Comments for Eagle River Power Station

[Those antique industrial lights are expencive I just bought a pretty good one pulled from a building being demolished]. What do you mean? I can buy them new over hear, they still make them. Oh, yea, the country I live in is 10 years behind every one else.

Coal shoots with crushers at the bottom?
As I understand and please correct me if I'm wrong. Typically in a large water tube boiler (from previous photos this station is using water tube as apposed to fire tube) the coal is fed into a crusher to crush the coal to pebble size lumps before being fed to the fire at the bottom (as seen at the bottom of the square shoots. Water tube boilers are in effect a big brick room with steal tubes filled with water running up the sides of the room and all connect to the bottom of a big drum at the top. Another set of tubes run from the top of that drum and run across the top of that room to super heat the steam from the drum. That drum is usually half filled with water. Water tube boilers are more efficient than fire tube ones you see on steam trains.

Blower for the boiler. Question is, what part of the boiler?

It's not hard to find out. Don't make it any easier for vandals to find it by spelling it out. Needless to say there are plenty of clues here.

What's so amazing is that no vandals have been here.
It's great!
What's the secret of keeping vandals out?
Keep the place live? Touch the wrong thing and your BBQ.

Interesting to see the High Pressure section had a cover.

Interesting to see where the meters were. Looks like loads of meters have been removed. Spare parts used in other stations? Yes, power is usualy keeped connected to moth balled power stations. One diesel power station comes to mind that was built around early 1900's. It was moth balled in the 40's and only a few years ago was disconnected from the grid. It has 2 large slow speed 6 cyl diesels that were made in England. About 100 years old now. They still work. Started up now and then for shows.

Deep cycles, little to no sulphation. Looks maintained. Who knows what they have in mind for this place.

Motor generators. Or if your from UK motor dynamos. AC motors driving DC generators, made in the days before they had decent rectifiers. Used where ever DC power is required. Unlikely used for exciter power but some one might have designed it that way. Power to drive the rotor coils on large or medium generators are powered from exciters on the same shaft as the generator, mostly. Shows the age if this power station. Should be preserved.

I'm with Gratefulzenz and CS. It's the top of a condenser, the turbine has been removed.
But to split hairs, looks like the steam passes through the tubes and the cooling water surrounds the tubes. Looks cool. Does look like a TV dinner tray.

Cooling water pump for condenser.

Guessing here.
Feed water pipes for a water tube boiler with forced draught fans on either side.

Sorry Kevlar but it's a condenser as most people here have stated and it's not normally under pressure.
There is a slight vacuum (not accurate term), slightly less pressure than atmosphere pressure at sea level.
It's like the steam is almost sucked from the turbines Low Pressure final stages.
It's a closed loop system. Most nuclear power stations use the same system today, only the difference is a nuclear reactor boils the water, though there are different ways to make steam from nuclear reactors. And as already stated the water from the condenser is pumped back into the boilers in another part of the building to be converted back into steam to feed the turbine.

Exciter, yes.
3 phase, no.
DC energy is required to feed the generator rotor.
Have another look at the commutator.

Because there are conceptual similarities between electric capacitors and heat exchangers used to condense steam to water, not actual similarities hence the change in name.