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The cooling tower at American Electric Power's coal fired power Tidd Plant in Brilliant, Jefferson County, Ohio. The image was made in June 1992.
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Excerpts from an article on the demolition of the Tidd Plant site from AEP's Retirees website, written by Rachel Hammer and posted August 6, 2015:
The Tidd Plant was located at Brilliant, Ohio. Tidd Plant’s two generating units began operation in 1945 and 1948. It was the first AEP power plant with a central control room and may have been the first AEP plant to be named after a person. George N. Tidd joined Electric Company of America prior to 1904 when he was assigned to run operations in Marion, Ind.The AEP System concept got its start under Tidd, who envisioned an interconnected system. In 1929, Tidd gave a lengthy interview to Electrical World. He later condensed that interview into a simple vision statement. That statement was published in 1934 as “[Our Job],” which employees know today as the company creed.
The plant was tied to two significant research and development projects: the Tidd EHV Test Project and the Tidd PFBC Demonstration Project. In 1991, AEP began a demonstration at Tidd Plant of pressurized fluidized bed combustion (PFBC), a clean-coal technology. The 70,000-kilowatt facility was a cooperative effort of AEP, the U.S. Department of Energy and the Ohio Coal Development Office.
PFBC used dolomite, a type of limestone, to capture 90 percent of sulfur dioxide emissions during the combustion process. The technology also reduced nitrogen oxide emissions and its byproduct had potential reuse applications. Cleaned combustion gases also could be used for combined-cycle process. The four-year project demonstrated technology viability. Commercialization was another story. PFBC was built in in several plants in Europe and Japan, but never in the United States.
See also: Tidd : the nation's first PFBC combined-cycle demonstration
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Clean Coal Technology, [1990]
OCLC:22688515
This slide image included in the USGS National Digital Catalog for NGGDPP Grant G15AP00115 in FY2015.Context
Cylinder concrete tower. American Electric Power Tid Plant in Brilliant, Ohio.