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"Units and In-Service Dates: 217 MW (1955), 217 MW (1955), 217 MW (1955), 217 MW (1955), 217 MW (1955)" [
gem]
"When they began operation, the Kyger Creek Station, along with its twin, the
Clifty Creek Station, were the largest power plants ever built by private industry. The Kyger Creek Station was built to provide power to the Atomic Energy Commission's gaseous diffusion plant sited at Piketon, Ohio. The plant's electricity output helped power that facility until the supply agreement ended in 2003....The generators produce electricity at 15,500 volts. Transformers outside the plant step up the voltage to 345,000 volts so that it can be transmitted efficiently to customers." [
ovec] Being built to power an AEC plant explains why they put so many units online in the same year. If I remember correctly, gaseous diffusion is how they extract the preferred isotope of uranium for nuclear fission plants.
When I saw the gantry to the left of the "house" in the above view, I looked further upstream. This plant has some serious coal handling structures along the river.
While checking out the conveyor across the road, I found a gap in the trees for a view of the plant.
At the far upstream side of the site, it appears they receive a lot of limestone for their scrubbers.
I'm capturing an image of an active power plant while I can. It looks like the air pollution equipment occupies more land than the original powerhouse. The original three smokestacks have been cut off because the units now feed into a couple of generations of air pollution control. The first-generation smokestack is 1000'. The second-generation smokestack, which went online in Jan 2012, is 838'. [
ovec]
Here we can see the base of one of the old smokestacks. I wonder what all of those silos store.
The levee on the left holds an ash pond.
It is probably one of the ponds that the EPA designated as "high hazard" in 2011. [
gem]
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William Ross Efird posted
Kyger is My Favorite. |
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Cassie Reed posted
Kyger Creek Power Plant rollin on Christmas night.
Dan McKenna: Clifty Creek fed Fernald and Kyger Creek fed Piketon. Both were cold war Uranium enrichment plants I believe. Even though they are older units they still perform mightily.
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Shane Michael posted
Kyger Creek Power Plant in Cheshire, OH |
A different perspective. This is from a towboat.
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Clay Adams posted
After taking on water and drinking down 21,000 gallons of clean Diesel fuel..we light boated into Kyger by dark of night to build 15 empties..headed northbound back up the creek..lol. |
Scott Moore
posted two photos with the comment: "Kyger Creek Station."
[A comment by Chris Wellington is an 11 sec video of a turbine lift.]
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Summer Wes Claxon commented on Scott's post
[I presume these are the water tubes in a boiler.] |
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Summer Wes Claxon commented on Scott's post
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Group member
posted four photos with the comment: "Unit 4 LP spindle replacement at Kyger Creek. Glad that’s over!"
Bruce Douglas: I was always the crane operator for lifts like these: first time I ever did a turbine lift, I was scared to death!
William B. Hearn: Bruce Douglas I qualified as a Turbine Crane operator but never got the chance to operate on a Turbine Overhaul. I did operate on an exciter outage and Condensate Pump repair. The Condensate Pump Job made me nervous as the pump (12 stage) and motor (600HP) were 3 floors below the Turbine deck and was done all by hand signals by maintenance people each on the 3 floors below the Turbine Deck. It was definitely a slow operation.
The Turbine Crane was Updated several years later and a radio remote control was added and converted to variable frequency drive and the operator could stand at the opening and view the whole operation.
Kc Jones: My favorite plant of all time…..I don’t think I missed many of the startups after outages in my 34 years as an OEM rep.They usually occurred during Memorial Day weekend. Lots of friends and great people at this plant and what I considered local even though it was 145 miles from my home.
Dan McQuade: Massive LP, I assume this is an 1800 rpm LP section of a cross compound machine?
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Chris Wellington
posted three photos with the comment: "Helping set LP rotor for balancing for outage. One of my last jobs before retiring"
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Paul Ring posted
Outage work being done on a LP Turbine. Not sure of the date. Probably the 60's.
Kyger Creek Station |
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Chris Wellington posted
Kyger Creek basement looking from unit 1 towards unit 5.
Charlie Mason: We had CR-77s. Fire breathing monsters.
McCall Gafford: We have the exact same pulverizers.
John Franklin: Our pyrite line stayed plugged and be just blew them in the floor and washed them to the pyrite trench. When we were burning syn fuel mix it was common to have fire shooting out the pyrite door. Sounded like a small jet.
Fred McInturf: MR had double ball pyrite box and sluiced to hopper on side of ash hopper. |
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John Vincent commented on Fred's comment
That's what we had. |
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Paul Ring posted
Main floor on U-2 Kyger Creek |
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Andrew Tucker posted, cropped
[Gavin on the left and Kyger on the right. (Gavin is on the todo list.)] |
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