Longannet Electricity Generating Station
551 500/1/8/2/2/3
Description Longannet Electricity Generating Station
Date 6/2016
Collection Historic Environment Scotland
Catalogue Number 551 500/1/8/2/2/3
Category All Other
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/1528173
Collection Hierarchy - Sub-Group Level
Collection Level (551 500) Historic Environment Scotland
> Group Level (551 500/1) Survey and Recording Programmes
>> Sub-Group Level (551 500/1/8) Industrial Survey Programme
>>> Sub-Group Level (551 500/1/8/2) Industrial Survey 2015-16
>>>> Sub-Group Level (551 500/1/8/2/2) FIFE
>>>>> Sub-Group Level (551 500/1/8/2/2/3) Longannet Electricity Generating Station
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On-line Digital Images | DP 237568 | Interior general view. Boiler House. Basement level. Forced draught fan (right) 2B and forced draught fan discharge to main airheater (centre) | 8/7/2016 | Item Level |
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On-line Digital Images | DP 237572 | Interior general view. Boiler House. Basement area. Ash plant. Ash Crusher. Here the ash is crushed. A water jet forces the ash through the pipe on the right to the lagoon. | 8/7/2016 | Item Level |
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On-line Digital Images | DP 237573 | Interior general view. Boiler House. Basement area. Ash plant. Ash Crusher. Here the ash is moved mechanically into the crusher. A water jet forces the crushed ash through the pipe on the right to the lagoon. The ash hopper is to the left. Each boiler (there are 4) have an ash hopper and two ash crushers | 8/7/2016 | Item Level |
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On-line Digital Images | DP 237577 | Interior general view. Diesel generator room. Generators for running fire hydrant system on site | 8/7/2016 | Item Level |
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On-line Digital Images | DP 237579 | Interior general view. Diesel generator room. Bruce Peebles generators Nos 1 and 2 | 8/7/2016 | Item Level |
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On-line Digital Images | DP 237580 | Interior detail. Diesel generator | 8/7/2016 | Item Level |
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On-line Digital Images | DP 237583 | General view taken from the north west. Sub-station | 8/7/2016 | Item Level |
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On-line Digital Images | DP 237588 | General view taken from the north west. Boiler House and Turbine Hall. Flue Gas Desulpherization pipes in foreground | 8/7/2016 | Item Level |
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On-line Digital Images | DP 237590 | General view of water cooling channel or flume outflow from south west. This removes the treated warm water from the power station. The 88,000 litres per second flowing down this channel cools as it travels to the Forth | 8/7/2016 | Item Level |
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On-line Digital Images | DP 237593 | General view of water channel to the River Forth from west and looking towards Valleyfield ash lagoons | 8/7/2016 | Item Level |
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On-line Digital Images | DP 237570 | Interior general view. Boiler House. Basement. Furnace Ash Hopper area, ash plant. Here the clinker (material left after coal burnt to heat boilers to generate steam for turbines) would be broken up by hand. The rollers visible on the edge of the platform were to ease the backward and forward movement of hooks which werre used to pull the larger pieces of clinker that could not be broken up to the open area in front of the hopper | 8/7/2016 | Item Level |
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On-line Digital Images | DP 237571 | Interior general view. Boiler House. Basement. Furnace Ash Hopper area, ash plant. Here the clinker (material left after coal burnt to heat boilers to generate steam for turbines) would be broken up by hand. The worker would stand on the platform to do this. The roller visible on the edge of the platform was to ease the backward and forward movement of hooks which were used to pull the larger pieces of clinker that could not be broken up to the open area in front of the hopper as on the left | 8/7/2016 | Item Level |
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On-line Digital Images | DP 237574 | Interior general view. Boiler House. Basement area. Vertical spindle mills for Boiler no. 3. Each boiler (there are 4) has 8 mills which take coal from the coal bunker above and pulverise it . The pulverised coal is then blown up pipes to the distributers which in turn feed the pulverised coal into the boiler plant | 8/7/2016 | Item Level |
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On-line Digital Images | DP 237575 | Interior general view. Boiler House. Basement area. Vertical spindle mills for Boiler no. 3. Each boiler (there are 4) has 8 mills which take coal from the coal bunker above and pulverise it . The pulverised coal is then blown up pipes to the distributers which in turn feed the pulverised coal into the boiler plant | 8/7/2016 | Item Level |
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On-line Digital Images | DP 237581 | Interior detail. Diesel generator room. Control panels for generators 1 and 2 | 8/7/2016 | Item Level |
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On-line Digital Images | DP 237582 | General view taken from the north west. Turbine House with Boiler House behind. Windshield containing four flues behind.eneral view taken from the north west. Bulk hydrogen store on right. | 8/7/2016 | Item Level |
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On-line Digital Images | DP 237598 | General view of power station from east. This area is man made from boiler ash. | 8/7/2016 | Item Level |
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On-line Digital Images | DP 237599 | General view of power station from east. This area is man made from boiler ash. | 8/7/2016 | Item Level |
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On-line Digital Images | DP 237601 | General view of windshield containing the 4 flues | 8/7/2016 | Item Level |
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On-line Digital Images | DP 237604 | General view. Circulating Water Pump House from west. Water pipes distributing seawater from the CW pumphouse to the rest of the site. | 8/7/2016 | Item Level |
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On-line Digital Images | DP 237605 | General view of Circulating Water Pump House from north west. | 8/7/2016 | Item Level |
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On-line Digital Images | DP 237606 | Interior general view of archive holding area, Bay 9 (former Mess Room) | 8/7/2016 | Item Level |
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On-line Digital Images | DP 237607 | Interior general view of archive holding area, Bay 9 (former Mess Room) | 8/7/2016 | Item Level |
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On-line Digital Images | DP 237608 | Interior general view of archive holding area, Bay 9 (former Mess Room) | 8/7/2016 | Item Level |
