"Formerly operated by Duquesne Light and Orion Power Midwest, served electricity to the Pittsburgh region since 1942. The coal-fueled plant was the site of the first flue gas desulfurization scrubber on a utility power plant in the U.S." [wikimapia] "Duquesne Light built the "scrubber stack" in the 1960s to limit air pollution from the coal-fired plant." [triblive]
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| Street View, Jul 2007 By the next view, Aug 2011, the buildings were torn down. |
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| Jim DePoe posted Philips power station 1942 to 1987 John Gallagher: I believe the first boilers and turbines were 1942 or 1943. Additional boilers and turbines were added in later years with #6 Boiler/#4 Unit being installed in the mid-late 1950s. Boilers 1-5 were tied to a common steam headed that supplied Turbines 1-3. The Scrubbers were added in the early-mid 1970s. https://www.abandonedamerica.us/slideshow244057.html [this page has a photo gallery] |
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| Greg Mross posted A little help here..... Can anyone ID this power plant? I took this image on a trip out east (OH, PA, NY, WV) in June of 1993, but failed to label the slide! DOH! Any help would be appreciated. EDIT: Frank Phillips power plant in South Heights, PA. Thanks for the help! Charlie Sphar: If I’m not mistaken, this was one of the first power stations that had the scrubber system, online in the early 70’s. Robert Walker: It is Phillips for certain. That's where I started work in December of 1982. The plant went online in 1941. It had Foster Wheeler roof fired boilers and Westinghouse turbine-generators. The Chemico wet scrubber system was one of the earliest in the country to go online. The plant shut down in the mid 1980's and was torn down a few years ago. |
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| Postcard P&LE Train No. 273, passing Phillips Power Station By H. Fogg, PA |
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| Google Earth, Apr 1993 |
The smokestack and a conveyor belt was still standing in Google Maps accessed in Sep 2022.
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| 3D Satellite |
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| triblive It took two tries to get the smokestack to fall down with explosives. |
Check out the Howard Fogg painting of this power plant as part of his P&LE series.
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