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Old 25th March 2009 | 19:13
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Irish_Stu
 
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If talking about land based sites, most, if not all, of these have a heat recovery system within the exhaust gas stream to heat water and power a steam turbine.

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this being the case the heat recovery will lower the final output exhaust plume to a fairly low figure.

Not strictly true. Granted, most of the GT power plants built nowadays are "Combined Cycle" (where the exhaust heats water to power a steam Turbine), however there are still a fair few "Open Cycle" plants around. I work at one such plant, and the GT exhaust exits the top of the chimney at around 500 degrees celsius...
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