. Electric railway journal . HAVANA POWER PLANT—VIEW OF SUCTION TANK FOR ASH-HANDLING SYSTEM. HAVANA POWER PLANT—VIEW OF CONTROL SWITCHBOARDSIN OPERATING GALLERY units are set on longitudinal steel beams supported onconcrete piers transverse with this wall, thus leavingspaces under the unit and between the piers open forauxiliary apparatus and ventilation. In order to avoidhaving pumps below ground level, the main units andthe turbine room floor were set 24 ft. above the ground,thus affording ample head room for the condensers andauxiliaries. Directly below each main turbine is placeda 30,000-
. Electric railway journal . HAVANA POWER PLANT—VIEW OF SUCTION TANK FOR ASH-HANDLING SYSTEM. HAVANA POWER PLANT—VIEW OF CONTROL SWITCHBOARDSIN OPERATING GALLERY units are set on longitudinal steel beams supported onconcrete piers transverse with this wall, thus leavingspaces under the unit and between the piers open forauxiliary apparatus and ventilation. In order to avoidhaving pumps below ground level, the main units andthe turbine room floor were set 24 ft. above the ground,thus affording ample head room for the condensers andauxiliaries. Directly below each main turbine is placeda 30, surface condenser with the circulatingpump at the boiler-room end and the air and hot-wellpumps at the side, all set on the ground floor. Theother turbine auxiliaries are set along the wide aislerunning the length of the basement on the side that isnearest to the boilers, the boiler-feed, service and heaterpumps being in the central space between the secondand third turbine foundations under the exciters on thefloor above. Large openings are left in the turbine-room floor sothat
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