Category: 1. Generation

The steam turbine is a favourite prime mover in a steam power generating plants. The steam turbine may be of capacity from 5 megawatts 2000 megawatt. The advantages of a steam turbine over a diesel engine are as follows. The size of a steam turbine is much smaller than that of an equivalent diesel engine. The size…

A thermal power generating plant works based on the Rankine Cycle. There are mainly three primary inputs given to thermal power generating plants for producing electricity. These three most essential elements are coal, air, and water. Coal is used as fuel here because we are going to draw the flow diagram of a coal thermal…

What is a Thermal Power Plant? A thermal power generation plant or thermal power station is the most conventional source of electric power. The thermal power plant is also referred to as a coal thermal power plant and steam turbine power plant. Let’s dive into how a thermal power plan works. Theory of Thermal Power…

Cogeneration is also called as combined heat and power or combine heat and power. As it name indicates cogeneration works on concept of producing two different form of energy by using one single source of fuel. Out of these two forms one must be heat or thermal energy and other one is either electrical or…

We can produce electrical energy by converting different energies available in nature. So we should look into various natural sources of energy which we use to produce electricity. Some common sources of energy are The Sun The Wind The Water Head The Fuel The Nuclear Energy Out of five above listed sources of energy we…

We divide the power system into three parts; power generation, transmission, and distribution. In this article, we will discuss power generation. Actually, in power generation, one form of energy gets converted into electrical energy. We produce electrical energy from various natural sources. We classify these sources into two types renewable sources and non-renewable sources. In…

The MHD generation or, also known as magneto hydrodynamic power generation is a direct energy conversion system which converts the heat energy directly into electrical energy, without any intermediate mechanical energy conversion, as opposed to the case in all other power generating plants. Therefore, in this process, substantial fuel economy can be achieved due to…

What is a Power Plant? A power plant (also known as a power station or power generating station), is an industrial location that is utilized for the generation and distribution of electric power on a mass scale. Many power stations contain one or more generators, a rotating machine that converts mechanical power into three-phase electric…