Łaziska Power Station
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Łaziska Power Station is a thermal power station in Łaziska Górne, Poland
. The first Łaziska Power Station was inaugurated in 1917. In 1929, a 87.1 MW unit was inaugurated making it to the largest power station in Poland at those days.
The current Łaziska Power Station was built in 1967–1972. It has six units. Three units have capacity of 225 MW, two 125 MW, and one 230 MW. The two flue gas stack
s of the station are 200 and 162 m (656.2 and 531.5 ) tall, a further200 metres (656.2 ft) tall flue gas stack was demolished in March 2002 with a special excavator.
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
. The first Łaziska Power Station was inaugurated in 1917. In 1929, a 87.1 MW unit was inaugurated making it to the largest power station in Poland at those days.
The current Łaziska Power Station was built in 1967–1972. It has six units. Three units have capacity of 225 MW, two 125 MW, and one 230 MW. The two flue gas stack
Flue gas stack
A flue-gas stack is a type of chimney, a vertical pipe, channel or similar structure through which combustion product gases called flue gases are exhausted to the outside air. Flue gases are produced when coal, oil, natural gas, wood or any other fuel is combusted in an industrial furnace, a power...
s of the station are 200 and 162 m (656.2 and 531.5 ) tall, a further200 metres (656.2 ft) tall flue gas stack was demolished in March 2002 with a special excavator.