OT- Winter electricity margin down yet another 500MW, possibly 1000MW

I'm a bit out of practice with coal fired plant, anyone recognise which bits of plant seem to be involved? Two vertical cylindrical structures.

/I'm a bit out of practice with coal fired plant, anyone recognise which bits of plant seem to be involved? Two vertical cylindrical structures/q

How are you at reading the links provided?

Jim K

This was a bit careless of the owners?

You cannot blame the fire brigade they don't want surprises ehen their people ar inside now do they?

Brian

I'm passingly interested in what actually burnt, i.e. what was the material that combusted. I can't imagine too much combustible material in or around a de-sulphurisation plant; mostly metal pipes, pumps and lime slurry I would have thought, possibly with some mineral-based insulation. But plenty of black smoke reminiscent of a domestic chimney fire. Do these things get sooted up? Seems unlikely.

Ditto

The whole site was apparently undergoing major maintenance.

Some detail on the Drax FGD plant here with the operational temperatures, note the use of rubber linings to prevent corrosion.

Thanks. Burning rubber and resin would be pretty smoky, I guess.

And this is in the week the demolished Didcot...

Andy