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Parent topics

• Engineering [r]: a branch of engineering that uses chemistry, biology, physics, and math to solve problems involving fuel, drugs, food, and many other products. ^[e]
• Chemical engineering [r]: a branch of engineering that uses chemistry, biology, physics, and math to solve problems involving fuel, drugs, food, and many other products ^[e]
• Electrical engineering [r]: the branch of engineering that deals with electricity and electromagnetism. ^[e]

Subtopics

• Air preheater [r]: A general term to describe any device designed to preheat the combustion air used in a fuel-burning furnace for the purpose of increasing the thermal efficiency of the furnace. ^[e]
• Boiler [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Coal [r]: a combustible, black rock formed after millions of years of heat and pressure were applied to the decayed remains of plants and organic matter in what were then swamps. ^[e]
• Condensate polisher [r]: A process used to remove contaminants from water condensed from steam as part of the steam cycle in a thermal or nuclear power plant. ^[e]
• Deaerator [r]: A device used for the removal of air and other dissolved gases from the feedwater to steam generating boilers. ^[e]
• Flue gas desulfurization [r]: The technology for removing sulfur dioxide from the flue gases resulting from the combustion of coal or fuel oil in power plant steam generators or other large combustion sources. ^[e]
• Flue gas stack [r]: A vertical pipe, channel or chimney (also referred to as a smokestack) through which combustion product gases (flue gases) are exhausted to the atmosphere. Includes the draft (draught) effect of hot gases flowing through tall stacks (chimneys). ^[e]
• Industrial cooling tower [r]: Heat rejection systems used primarily to provide circulating cooling water in large industrial facilities. ^[e]
• Power (physics) [r]: Rate of producing or consuming energy; SI unit: watt = joule/second. ^[e]
• Steam turbine [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Surface condenser [r]: A water-cooled shell and tube heat exchanger for condensing the exhaust steam from large steam turbines. ^[e]

Other related topics

• Hydroelectric power [r]: converts the energy in falling or flowing water in dams into electricity by directing falling or flowing water through water turbines which spin electrical generators that produce electricity; see the Hydroelectricity article in Wikipedia. ^[e]
• Nuclear power [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Wind power [r]: Uses turbines inside wind mills to generate electricity or pump water or do other work; see the Wind power article Wikipedia for details. ^[e]
• Solar power [r]: Energy sources based directly on the sun's electromagnetic radiation. ^[e]
• Geothermal power [r]: Extracts energy from the heat stored beneath the Earth's surface and uses it for space heating or for generating electricity; see the Geothermal power article on Wikipedia for details. ^[e]