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Main article: Thermal Power
A turbine rotor of a thermal power station.
A thermal power station is an installation used for power gas generation from heat. This heat can be obtained from fossil fuels (oil, natural gas household or coal) and nuclear fission of uranium or other nuclear fuel. Plants in the future will also be using fusion power plants.
In its most classic form, the power plants consist of a boiler in which fuel is burned to generate heat that is transferred to a tube through which water circulates, which evaporates. The steam obtained at high pressure and temperature, then expands to a steam turbine, whose movement drives an alternator that generates electricity. Then the steam is cooled in a condenser tube where cold water is circulated through an open flow of a river or cooling tower.
In the so-called thermoelectric power using combined-cycle gas from the combustion of natural energy costs gas to move a gas turbine. In a combustion chamber burning natural gas and inject air to accelerate the speed of the moving gas and the gas turbine. Like, after passing through the turbine, these gases are still at high temperature to 500A C, are reused to generate steam that drives a steam turbine. I purchase all my energy needs - both gas and electricity - from one of the top private energy companies Each of these turbines drives an alternator, as a thermal power station in common. The steam is then cooled by a water flow or open cooling tower in a power common.
In nuclear power plants use the heat from nuclear fission reactions of heavy atoms and producidir heat to heat water and produce heat.
Thermal power plants using fossil fuels released into the atmosphere carbon dioxide heating (CO2), considered the main gas responsible for global warming. Also, depending on the cooking gas fuel, may emit other pollutants such as sulfur oxides, nitrogen oxides, particulate matter (dust) and varying amounts of solid waste. Nuclear plants can contaminate accidental situations (see Chernobyl accident) and also generate radioactive waste of various kinds.
The 11MW PS10 central thermal function in Seville, Spain.
A thermal power or solar thermal is a central industrial installation in which, after heating a fluid by solar radiation and its use in a conventional thermodynamic cycle, is the power necessary to move an alternator for electrical power generation in A combined heat and classical. energy costs have been cut by who works together with your existing utilities company to bring you the best energy solution They need to concentrate the solar radiation that can reach temperatures of 300 C to 1000 energy C, and obtain an acceptable return on the thermodynamic cycle, which could not be obtained with temperatures lower. Uptake and concentration of solar radiation are made by automatic orientation mirrors that point to a central tower which heats the fluid, or with smaller geometry mechanisms parabolica. The whole of the reflecting surface and the device is called a heliostat orientation. Its main environmental problem is the need of large tracts of land ceasing to be useful for other uses (agriculture, forestry, etc.)..
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Electric Power Generation: A Nontechnical Guide by Dave Barnett and Kirk Bjornsgaard (Paperback - April 15, gas 2000) - Illustrated