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Environmental Aspects of Power Station
Contents
18.1 Environmental aspects
18.2 Global warming and green house effect
18.3 Thermal pollution of water and its control
18.4 Acid precipitation – acid rain and acid snow
18.5 Effluents from power plants and impact on environment
18.6 Environmental impact of power plant: social and economical issues of the power plants
18.1 ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS
The design, location, construction and operation of electrical power generation facilities have been affected by environmental concern. Hence, a power engineer must have concern for the environment while producing enough power to meet public demand at low cost. Government has passed environmental legislation that limits the amount of certain solid and ...
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