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Birchills Power Station, the Glossary

Birchills power station and Walsall power station are a series of three coal-fired power stations in, or near, Walsall in the West Midlands, England.^[1]

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21 relations: Anson Branch, Babcock & Wilcox, Bar (unit), Board of Trade, British Electricity Authority, British Thomson-Houston, Central Electricity Authority, Central Electricity Generating Board, Coal, Cooling tower, Electricity Commissioners, England, Fossil fuel power station, Gallon, Mather & Platt, Nationalization, Pound per square inch, Walsall, West Midlands (county), West Midlands Joint Electricity Authority, Wyrley and Essington Canal.
Buildings and structures in Walsall
Power stations in the West Midlands (region)

Anson Branch

The Anson Branch is a short canal in the West Midlands, England.

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Babcock & Wilcox

Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises, Inc. is an American energy technology and service provider that is active and has operations in many international markets with its headquarters in Akron, Ohio.

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Bar (unit)

The bar is a metric unit of pressure defined as 100,000 Pa (100 kPa), though not part of the International System of Units (SI).

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Board of Trade

The Board of Trade is a British government body concerned with commerce and industry, currently within the Department for Business and Trade.

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The British Electricity Authority (BEA) was established as the central British electricity authority in 1948 under the nationalisation of Great Britain's electricity supply industry enacted by the Electricity Act 1947.

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British Thomson-Houston

British Thomson-Houston (BTH) was a British engineering and heavy industrial company, based at Rugby, Warwickshire, England.

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Central Electricity Authority

The Central Electricity Authority (CEA) was a body that managed and operated the electricity supply industry in England and Wales between 1 April 1955 and 31 December 1957.

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Central Electricity Generating Board

The Central Electricity Generating Board (CEGB) was responsible for electricity generation, transmission and bulk sales in England and Wales from 1958 until privatisation of the electricity industry in the 1990s.

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Coal

Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock, formed as rock strata called coal seams.

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Cooling tower

A cooling tower is a device that rejects waste heat to the atmosphere through the cooling of a coolant stream, usually a water stream, to a lower temperature.

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Electricity Commissioners

The Electricity Commissioners were a department of the United Kingdom government's Ministry of Transport, which regulated the electricity supply industry from 1920 until nationalisation in 1948.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Fossil fuel power station

A fossil fuel power station is a thermal power station which burns a fossil fuel, such as coal, oil, or natural gas, to produce electricity.

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Gallon

The gallon is a unit of volume in British imperial units and United States customary units.

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Mather & Platt

Mather & Platt is the name of several large engineering firms in Europe, South Africa and Asia that are subsidiaries of Wilo SE, Germany or were founded by former employees.

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Nationalization

Nationalization (nationalisation in British English) is the process of transforming privately-owned assets into public assets by bringing them under the public ownership of a national government or state.

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Pound per square inch

The pound per square inch (abbreviation: psi) or, more accurately, pound-force per square inch (symbol: lbf/in2), is a unit of measurement of pressure or of stress based on avoirdupois units.

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Walsall

Walsall (or; locally) is a market town and administrative centre of the borough of the same name in the West Midlands, England.

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West Midlands (county)

West Midlands is a metropolitan and ceremonial county in the larger West Midlands region of England.

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West Midlands Joint Electricity Authority

The West Midlands Joint Electricity Authority was a United Kingdom statutory body established in 1925 with the responsibility to "provide or secure the provision of a cheap and abundant supply of electricity” in the Midland counties of Shropshire, Staffordshire and Worcestershire.

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Wyrley and Essington Canal

The Wyrley and Essington Canal, known locally as "the Curly Wyrley", is a canal in the English Midlands.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birchills_Power_Station