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  2. List of tallest chimneys - Wikipedia

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    Conflicting information on actual height or the chimney's height may have been subsequently reduced. Demolished in April 2013. 1954: 1962: INCO Copper Cliff Nickel Refinery Stack, Sudbury, Ontario, [15] Canada: 1954: 194: 637: 1962: 1965: Chimney of Schilling Power Station, Stade, West Germany (now Germany) 1962: 220: 722: Demolished in 2006 ...

  3. Flue-gas stack - Wikipedia

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    A flue gas stack at GRES-2 Power Station in Ekibastuz, Kazakhstan, the tallest of its kind in the world (420 meters or 1,380 feet) [1]. A flue-gas stack, also known as a smoke stack, chimney stack or simply as a stack, is a type of chimney, a vertical pipe, channel or similar structure through which flue gases are exhausted to the outside air.

  4. Stack effect - Wikipedia

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    The stack effect or chimney effect is the movement of air into and out of buildings through unsealed openings, chimneys, flue-gas stacks, or other purposefully designed openings or containers, resulting from air buoyancy. Buoyancy occurs due to a difference in indoor-to-outdoor air density resulting from temperature and moisture differences ...

  5. Anaconda Smelter Stack - Wikipedia

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    The overall height of the stack is 585 feet 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 inches (178.35 m) (≈ 585 feet), [B] including a brick chimney 555 feet 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 inches (169.20 m) (≈ 555 feet) tall and the downhill side of a concrete foundation 30 feet (9.1 m) high. This was the height when new in 1918, but loss of the terra cotta that covered the top course of ...

  6. Inco Superstack - Wikipedia

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    The Inco Superstack in Sudbury, Ontario, with a height of 381 metres (1,250 ft), is the tallest chimney in Canada and the Western Hemisphere, and the second-tallest freestanding chimney in the world after the Ekibastuz GRES-2 Power Station in Kazakhstan.

  7. Chimney - Wikipedia

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    A flue liner is a secondary barrier in a chimney that protects the masonry from the acidic products of combustion, helps prevent flue gas from entering the house, and reduces the size of an oversized flue. Since the 1950s, building codes in many locations require newly built chimneys to have a flue liner.

  8. Double chimney - Wikipedia

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    The double chimney was removed in 1953, owing to the already-good performance of the standard chimney and problems with the softer blast of the double chimney not clearing smoke away from the cab so well. [14] 4765 and 4766 had also trialled a similar double chimney, but with the standard Walschaerts valvegear. [14]

  9. Kennecott Garfield Smelter Stack - Wikipedia

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    The Garfield Smelter Stack was completed in 1974, replacing several earlier smokestacks, the tallest of which was 413 feet (126 m) high. The extra height was needed to meet the requirements of the Clean Air Act of 1970, to disperse waste gases according to new standards. [1]

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