Central electricity generation

The first centralized electric generating plant in the United States was Edison s three-unit steam-engine-based station, which suppHed electric power to light approximately 5000 electric lamps in a group of homes and businesses in New York City in 1882. Also in 1882, the first hydroelectric power plant went into operation in Appleton, Wisconsin, generating approximately 25 kW of power, enough to power more than 200 100-watt light bulbs. 

Nuclear Physics. In Modern Power Station Practice, Vol. 8, Nuclear Power Generation, 2nd edn, pub. for the Central Electricity Generating Board by Pergamon Press, Oxford, 1978, pp. 1 49. 

A collaborative test programme covering low-alloy and high-alloy steels was carried out by the Central Electricity Generating Board and various steelmakers. Samples were exposed in specially constructed chambers held at 566°C, 593°C and 621 °C fed with power-station steam at a pressure of 3-45 MN/m for times of up to 16 286 h. In the assessment of the results both metal lost from the surface and subsurface penetration were measured. The results have been reported by King, Robinson, Howarth and Perry in a C.E.G.B. report. Selected data are shown in Fig. 7.32, in which the broken lines have been obtained by extrapolation of the experimental results. 

Present address Central Electricity Generating Board, Berkeley Nuclear Laboratories, Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England, U.K. 

Ballestra S, Holm E, Fukai R (1978) Presented at the symposium on the determination of radionuclides in environmental and biological materials. Central Electricity Generating Board, London, UK... 

This review was carried out at the Central Electricity Research Laboratories and is published by permission of the Central Electricity Generating Board. 

Board, S. J., Hall,R. W., and Brown, G. E. (1974). The Role of Spontaneous Nucleation in Thermal Explosions Freon/Water Experiments, RD/BIN 3007. Central Electricity Generating Board, Berkeley Nuclear Laboratories, Great Britain. 

This work was supported by a research assistantship (to DTA) from Sheffield City Polytechnic and was carried out in collaboration with Dow Corning Ltd., Barry and Central Electricity Generating Board, Bristol. Irradiation experiments were performed at Berkeley Nuclear Laboratories. 

Central Electricity Generating Board, Central Electricity Research Laboratories, Leatherhead, Surrey, United Kingdom... 

By 2040-2050, natural gas reserves will be in very short supply, and the production of coal will quite likely be approaching peak production levels.19. While nuclear power plants are a source of large scale electricity generation, there exist major concerns regarding uranium supply (without breeder reactors), safety, waste disposal, and nuclear weapon proliferation. Therefore, it is prudent to explore the economic feasibility of other fuel sources such as PV electrolytic H2 for centralized, electricity generating plants. 

D J. LirrLER (cd.). Acid Rain, CEGB Research, Special Issue. No. 20, 64 pp (1987), published by the Central Electricity Generating Board, Southampton S04 4/.B. See also W. D. Halstead. CEGH Research 22. 3- 11 (1988). 

Central Electricity Generation Board, London Dungeness B AGR Nuclear Power Station, Report NF-15473, 1965. 

The transient performance of an AC exciter three-phase bridge rectifier when connected to the field of a turbo-generator. Paper by A. L. Sheldrake. Internal report. Central Electricity Generating Board, South Eastern Region, Scientific Services Department, December 1974. 

Central Electricity Generating Board, Research Laboratories, Kelvin Avenue, Ixatherhead, Surrey, England... 

Central Electricity Generating Board, Modem Power Station Practice—Section H —Nuclear Power Generation. 

CEGB — Central Electricity Generating Board DAFS — Department of Agriculture and Fisheries for Scotland... 

The major licensees are the Central Electricity Generating Board, the South of Scotland Electricity Board and British Nuclear Euels. Other licensees include universities (for research reactors) and Amersham International. 

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