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auxiliary power plant

 
Sci-Tech Dictionary: auxiliary power plant
(ög′zil·yə·rē ′pau̇·ər ′plant)

(mechanical engineering) Ancillary equipment, such as pumps, fans, and soot blowers, used with the main boiler, turbine, engine, waterwheel, or generator of a power-generating station.


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