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c.irh generating unit. These arc 36 ft shutdown is achieved by placing most with across-lhe-line starting. Motors j,, diameter, 75 ft high, and hold vital equipment within enclosed space located indoors are standard drip- ] >,-,o tons, each. Two silos hold where heat is provided. Removable proof; outdoor motors are completely- .noufih coal to operate their genera tini, unit 40 hours at full load. Thirty- enclosures not normally heated are held alrovc freezing by electric enclosed or weather-protected. Pennsylvania Power & Light inch vertical pipes drop coal from these silos to the coal feeders. After pulverizing, coal burns in 12 hori heaters. Outdoor pipelines have heating cables beneath the thermal insulation. Company published two excellent books on the Martins Creek station which were available at the time of zontal burners per boiler. Elliott motors, ranging in size the station dedication. Both books Coal is pulverized by two 20-ft from 134 to 2500 hp, drive pumps, were of 9 in. x 12 in. page size, i inside diameter by 11-ft long ball tube mill type pulverizers, fed at fans, compressors, and other auxili aries in the station. Many of these printed in two colors. One 20-page book told the story of the plant t i each end by a table feeder auto arc shown in the photographs re simply for the general public. It matically controlled by the coal level produced here. carried a dramatic story emphasiz in the pulverizer. Two exhausters All motors 250 hp and larger are ing employees which the book called per pulverizer supply pulverized coal supplied direct from the 4-kv bus. the "company's biggest asset"; it to 12 horizontal turbulent burners Other motors down to 75 hp arc con indicates the pride of the company mounted in two rows in the front nected to one of the three 480-volt in its more than 86.000 stockholders. wall of the furnace. load centers, each load center being The other book, 32 pages and cover, The freeze protection system for supplied by a 1000/1350-kva dry- gave a more complete and technical this plant is more elaborate than is type transformer. One of these load story of the plant and is illustrated by- found in the usual outdoor plant be centers is located in each of the tur drawings showing arrangement of cause the plant is designed to be shut bine, boiler, and coal crusher house the equipment, heat balance, wiring down at night and over week ends. areas. Motors smaller than 75 hp are diagrams, as well as numerous photo It is. therefore, more susceptible to supplied from any one of the 13 con graphs, and a big centerspread freezing than a plant operating veniently located 480-volt contactor aerial view. It gives a detailed list of "round-the-clock." cabinets. All motors, except for a few- equipment, as well as maps of the special types, are induction motors company system. Elliott men engage in various group activities Credit Union Handles Bis Money These men, the officers, directors, and committeemen of the Elliott Company Employees Credit Union, Jeannette Works, have the responsibility of handling a con siderable amount of money. Members pay in $50,000 monthly by payroll deduction. Chartered in 1935 with 25 members and $125 in assets, the Credit Union now has ,50 members and $562,717 in assets. Almost S2,000,000 in loans have been made. Thomas A. Smith, Jr., seated at left, is ""nog his tenth year as treasurer. R. E. . whiter, standing third from left, is servmg his 20th year as an official on the credit committee. Councilman Honcfenger This is a meeting of the City Council of University City, suburb of St. Louis, Mo. Councilman at extreme left is none other than H. W. Honefcnger, Elliott district manager, who, besides being very active in engineering circles, as noted recently in Powerjax, also finds time to serve his community in this way. Elliott Men at Tappi Meeting This photograph of Elliott Company men in attendance at the ninth engineering conference of the Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry, in Phila delphia last fall, was run in the December issue of Pulp & Paper. Shown, left to right, are J. R. Lemmon, district manager, Phila delphia; H. W. Kinsel, district manager, Boston; H. D. Moll, H. S. Mills, and W. M. Morley, Philadelphia; C. L. Harvey, Ridgsvay; C. L. Hoebel, New York. .`.JOWERTAX, SPRING I95S