How Power Plant Boiler Works?
The boiler generates high pressure steam by transfering the heat of Combustion in various heat transfer sections. This part of the article series …
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Pollution from Thermal Power Plants. Harmful Emissions from Coal Fired Power Plant
Burning Coal in a power plant produces a number of pollutants. Some of these pollutants are specific to the type of fuel or is part of the combustion …
Continue ReadingCoal as Fuel in Thermal Power Plants. Advantages of Coal.
Even with lots of talks going on about the use of non-conventional sources of energy such as the solar power, nuclear power and wind power, the place …
Continue ReadingFuel in Thermal Power Plant
Since coal is one of the most widely used fuels in thermal power plants all over the globe, it makes sense to know what constituents make up this …
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Parts of Thermal Power Plants
The coal which you use in your backyard for barbeque performs much more important functions such as generating electricity for us in thermal power …
Continue ReadingSite Selection for Thermal Power Plants
You might think that selecting a site for a thermal power plant is based on requirements of power of the nearby regions but it is not so in actual …
Continue ReadingWorking of Thermal Power Plant
The thermal power plant is a setup for extracting the hidden calorific heat inside the black diamond to be used for setting the electrons in motion …
Continue ReadingSafety in Power Plant Boilers
Boiler is the key equipment in the power plant that converts the energy in the Fuel to heat and then to energy in steam at high pressures and …
Continue ReadingCalorific Value or Heating Value of the Fuel & Moisture Content: Burning Coal in Power Plants
Coal is the primary fuel for producing Electricity. Some of the characteristics of coal have profound influence on the day to day working and …
Continue ReadingBoiler Feed Pumps for Thermal Power Plants
Boiler Feed Pump as the name suggests, finds application in boiler or reactor vessels to feed water and also control the amount of water fed to the …
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