Steam plant designated an ASME landmark

Eddystone Station Unit #1 — a 325-megawatt, pulverized-coal-fired plant that pushed the technology of steam-electric generating plants — will become an ASME Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmark on May 17.

When it was built in 1960, by a consortium of the Philadelphia Electric, Westinghouse Electric and Combustion Engineering Companies, Unit #1 was the most efficient plant of its kind in the United States.

Eddystone was the second U.S. steam-electric generating unit designed for the high temperatures and pressures of supercritical steam, and the first large one of this kind.

The knowledge gained from Unit #1 made it a model for today's high-efficiency steam-electric stations.

For more about Eddystone Unit #1 and the landmark ceremony, visit www.asme.org/history.

 

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