Building Kit for a Power Plant
Most Important Facts
| Article No. | 66122 |
|---|---|
| Gauge / Design type | Minitrix / |
| Era | I-V |
| Kind | Kits |
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Product description
Building kit for a model of a coal-fired power plant with smoke stack and underground
hopper for unloading coal hopper cars. Many details. Challenging kit, requires about
20-30 hours to build. Detailed multi-language instructions for building this kit. Area dimensions of the main building
170 x 105 mm / 6-11/16" x 41/8".
Height 111 mm / 4-3/8".
Smoke stack height 175 mm / 6-7/8".
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Publications
- New Items 2003 - Main Catalog 2003 / 2004 - Main Catalog 2004 / 2005
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Prototype information
Hard coal as well as lignite coal is used to heat coal-fired power plants. As steam power plants they produce steam in a boiler by burning the coal. This steam is under pressure and it is superheated and then fed into a steam turbine. The steam turbine then drives the power plant"s generators. Modern filter equipment reduces the amount of environmental emissions. This was not always the case. About 30% of the power requirements in Germany are covered with coal-fired power plants - not so on your model railroad. There the current still comes from the wall outlet …
