Power Plant

Definition: Power Plant

Power Plant

Noun

1. An electrical generating station.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Aerospace

Energy

Mechanical Engineering

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Power Plant

Workshop

Hive, hive of industry; nursery; hothouse, hotbed; kitchen; mint, forge, loom; dock, dockyard; alveary; armory; laboratory, lab, research institute; refinery; cannery; power plant; beauty parlor;beehive, bindery, forcing pit, nailery, usine, slip, yard, wharf; foundry, foundery; furnace; vineyard.

Crosswords: Power Plant

It could be a mutant from the power plant. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

Smithers, you think maybe my power plant killed those ducks? (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• Thermal Power Plant Equipment in China: A Strategic Entry Report, 1997 (reference)

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Books

• Gas Cloud Explosions and Their Effect on Nuclear Power Plant - Phase 1: Basic Development of Explosion Codes (reference)

• Microstructural Development & Stability in High Chromium Ferritic Power Plant Steels (reference)

• Power Plant System Design (reference)

• Steam & Diesel Power Plant Operator's Examinations (reference)

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Periodicals

• Power Plant Chemistry (reference)

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Music

• Power Plant (reference)

• Power Plant (+3 Bonus Tracks) [IMPORT] (reference)

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High Tech

• Power Plant 4 (reference)

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Jensen Launch on line dwarfed by nuclear power plant cooling tower Launch off of PEIRCE. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Looking east to electric power plant on the south shore of Lake Michigan. Credit: America's Coastlines.

The bowels of South Pole Station - the heating and power plant. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

A "permit" caught at the Florida Power Discharge. Often fish congregate near the warmwarm waters at a power plant discharge. Credit: Fisheries.

A smiling eight-year old displays the red drum that she caught at the Florida Power Plant discharge. Credit: Fisheries.

Power Plant and flow tube on Madison River. Credit: Mer Coleman.

Transmission lines coming from the Jim Bridger Power Plant in Wyoming. Credit: Unknown.

Caption: Country House Lighted and Powered by Edison Storage Batteries, Poyer House, C. A. Poyer with Power Plant; January 30, 1915; {06.100/97} (jpg).

Birdsboro (vicinity), Berks county, Penna., Aug. 1938--Car being used as a power plant for the saw rig on the farm of FSA client Dallas E. Glass. Credit: Library of Congress.

A.H. Unthank grave, power plant and trailsite, Douglas County, Wyoming. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Health

A defect in the power plant of the cell, called mitochondria, where energy is produced. (references)

Major industrial accidents attributed partly to errors made by fatigued night-shift workers include the Exxon Valdez oil spill and the Three Mile Island and Chernobyl nuclear power plant accidents. (references)

Business

Air pollution control equipment has potential in the power plant sector. (references)

The second Czech nuclear power plant Temelin is currently undergoing test operations. (references)

Power Senoko operates Senoko Power Plant, and Power Seraya operates Pulau Seraya Power Station. (references)

Economic History

Mauritius

The power plant is now operational. (references)

Haiti

During the year 2000 the city of Jacmel saw the installation of a power plant operated by Hydro-Quebec that makes it the only city with round the clock power supply. (references)

Guatemala

Six U.S. firms are constructing and/or already operating thermoelectric power plants in Guatemala and many other U.S. firms are providing equipment and services to Guatemalan power plant projects. (references)

Political Economy

BULGARIA

This Act is expected to make all remaining SOEs (about 1,783 valued at 25 billion leva) available for privatization with the exception of some strategic enterprises such as the nuclear power plant (Kozloduy) and Bulgargas. (references)

OMAN

In 1996, Oman became the first Gulf nation to turn exclusively to the private sector to finance, build, and operate a power plant, a 90 MW plant in Manah. (references)

OMAN

The project was expanded earlier this year to reach 270 MW. In 1999, the government awarded a tender for a 200 MW power plant in Salalah to the U.S. firm PSE&G (although negotiations continued into 2001). In 2000, the government awarded the Sharqia private power project, and in early 2001 the Barka power/desalination project was awarded to the U.S. firm AES. (references)

Trade

Armenia

Projects financed in Armenia include construction of a thermal power plant and an air cargo terminal. (references)

Brazil

The proposed 480 megawatt gas-fired Cuiaba integrated pipeline and power plant project in the state of Mato Grosso, at a projected cost of US$ 600 million, would be the first internationally financed independent power project in Brazil. (references)

Ukraine

Power Plant Repowering-TDA provided partial funding ($400,000) for a study on conversion of a coal-fired power plant in Dnepropetrovsk to gas. (references)

Worker Rights

Ukraine

The Constitution provides for the right to join trade unions in order to defend "professional, social and economic interests;" however, while in principle all workers and civil servants (including members of the armed forces) are free to form unions, in practice the Government discourages certain categories of workers, for example, nuclear power plant employees, from doing so. Under the Constitution, all trade unions have equal status, and no government permission is required to establish a trade union. (references)

Guatemala

In 1998 DYMEL, SA was contracted to build a coal-fired power plant. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "power plant": atomic power plant ♦ electric power plant ♦ tidal power plant ♦ turbo shaft power plant. Additional references.

Ending with "power plant": water-power plant.

Albanian

motor (engine, motor), central elektrik (power station, powerhouse). (various references)

Arabic 

‏محطة توليد كهربائي. (various references)

Bulgarian 

електростанция (power station, powerhouse), електроцентрала (electrical power station), двигател (engine, machine, motor, mover, propulsion). (various references)

Chinese 

發電� . (various references)

Danish

motorinstallation, kraftværk (generating station, power station), elektricitetsværk (generating station, power station). (various references)

Dutch

voortstuwingsinstallatie, volledig uitgeruste motor (fully-dressed engine, power unit), krachtwerk (power station), krachtbron, energiecentrale (power station), elektrische centrale, electrische centrale (generating station, power station), electriciteitscentrale (generating station, power station), asturbinemotor (powerplant, turbo shaft power plant). (various references)

Finnish

voimalaitos (hydroelectric plant, power-station). (various references)

French

centrale électrique (power station, powerhouse). (various references)

German

voll aufgerüstetes Triebwerk (fully-dressed engine, power unit), Turbinentriebwerk (powerplant, turbo shaft power plant), Triebwerkanlage (powerplant, turbo shaft power plant), triebwerk (driving mechanism, engine, mechanism, mover, power unit), Kraftwerk (power station), Elektrizitätswerk (power station), Antriebsanlage. (various references)

Greek 

κινητήρας με πλήρη εξοπλισμό παρελκομένων (fully-dressed engine, power unit), σύστημα ισχύος, συγκρότημα στροβιλοκινητήρα (powerplant, turbo shaft power plant), σταθμός παραγωγής ηλεκτρικής ενέργειας (generating station, power station), μονάδα παραγωγής ηλεκτρικής ισχύος, μονάδα παραγωγής ενεργείας (power station), εργοστάσιο ηλεκτρισμού, εγκατάσταση παραγωγής ηλεκτρικής ενέργειας. (various references)

Hungarian

erőmű (power station). (various references)

Indonesian

pembangkit tenaga listrik (power station). (various references)

Italian

centrale elettrica (power station, powerhouse, power-station). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

発電所 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

はつで�"しょ. (various references)

Pig Latin

owerpay antplay

Portuguese

motor totalmemte rectificado (fully-dressed engine, power unit), grupo turbomotor (powerplant, turbo shaft power plant), grupo motor (powerplant, turbo shaft power plant), fonte de energia (energy source, source of energy), estação de força, central eléctrica (generating station, power station). (various references)

Romanian

centralã energeticã, centralã electricã (power house, power station). (various references)

Russian 

электростанция (electrical power station, power station, powerhouse, powerplant, power-station). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

elektrana (powerhouse). (various references)

Spanish

central eléctrica (power station, powerhouse). (various references)

Swedish

kraftverk (powerhouse), kraftstation (power station). (various references)

Turkish

jeneratör (generating set, generator, power unit), güç kaynağı (power supply, power unit, prime mover), elektrik santralı (central station, electric plant, generating station, power station, power unit, powerhouse), dinamo (dynamo, generator, power unit, powerhouse). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: preplant.

-3 letters: operant, planter, polenta, preplan, prolate, pronate, propane, protean, replant.

-4 letters: antler, arpent, atoner, enrapt, entrap, enwrap, etalon, lapper, lappet, laptop, learnt, lepton, loaner, lopper, napper, ornate, palter, parent, parole, parton, patrol, patron, pawner, pawnor, pelota, petnap, petrol, planer, planet, platen, plater, plower, poplar, portal, powter, prelaw, prolan, propel, protea, rappel, rappen.

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