Design features of the Port Washington power plant

Abstract

AN ANALYTICAL discussion of some of the important decisions reached in the design of the new Port Washington power plant is presented in this paper. This generating station, now under construction, is located on the west shore of Lake Michigan at East Port Washington, Wis., 28 miles north of Milwaukee. The initial section of the station, with one turbine, will have a capacity of 80,000 kw, and will utilize 1,230 lb steam pressure and 825 deg F steam temperature at the throttle, and 825 deg F steam pressure at the reheat point. It will be built on the unit design, one boiler per turbine, one set of transformers, one 132-kv transmission line, and one set of auxiliaries for each unit. The possible ultimate capacity of the station is 400,000 kw in 5 units.