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ACCORDING to the Soviet Union Year Book Press Service, Grand Buildings, Trafalgar Square, W.C.2, plans have been completed for the building of a large heat and power station about twenty miles from Kotlas, a busy town in the northern province of the U.S.S.R. It will be built in virgin forest, near the site where building work is now proceeding in connexion with cellulose, chemical and wood-working enterprises for the Soviet timber and paper industry. This year the first section of the station with a capacity of 24,000 kW. will be brought into operation. It will have an annual output of 1.2 million tons of steam. Fuel will be provided by gas generated by pitch, a by-product from the local timber and chemical industries. Four boilers will produce 60-80 tons of steam per hour, at a pressure of 35 atmospheres,, the steam passing into turbines of 12,000 kW. each. These boilers are fitted with special fuel jets for the new form of fuel. The turbines can run at various steam pressures, depending on the requirements of production.
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Heat and Power Station in Northern Russsia. Nature 139, 581 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139581c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/139581c0