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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.
During the cooling season, the stack effect is reversed, but is typically weaker due to lower temperature differences. [1] In a modern high-rise building with a well-sealed envelope, the stack effect can create significant pressure differences that must be given design consideration and may need to be addressed with mechanical ventilation ...
Great Western locomotives with their distinctive copper-rimmed chimneys The new-build steam locomotive Leviathan, a 4-4-0 with a large spark-arresting chimney. The chimney (smokestack or stack in American and Canadian English) is the part of a steam locomotive through which smoke leaves the boiler.
Smokestacks in Manchester England c. 1858 watercolor by William Wyld.. A smokestack industry is a basic, usually cyclical, heavy industry. [1] The factories stereo-typically used in such industries have smoke stacks, hence the name, and produce a high volume of pollution.
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The Little Professor is a backwards-functioning calculator designed for children ages 5 to 9. Instead of providing the answer to a mathematical expression entered by the user, it generates unsolved expressions and prompts the user for the answer. [1]
It takes 20 minutes to ascend the stack, although workers only need to travel up to the 300-foot level each day, to service the air-sampling station. [ 1 ] The Garfield Smelter Stack is the tallest free-standing structure west of the Mississippi River , the fourth tallest smokestack in the world and the fifty-ninth tallest free-standing ...
A mack is a combined stack and mast, as fitted to some classes of 20th century warships. Although they can reduce top-weight, they have not gained universal popularity due to the problem of exhaust gases corroding electrical aerials and equipment.