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How atomic energy convert electric energy?
It is converted to heat first; this heat is then used to produce superheated steam. The pressure of the steam is what drives the electric generators.
How can you convert nuclear energy into energy that you can use?
First it is converted into heat. This is then usually converted to other types of energy through a steam engine.
What needs to be done to a fuel to release the energy stored in it?
The process of combustion combines fuel with oxygen, to produce carbon dioxide and heat. If the fuel is burned in a boiler to produce steam, this heat energy is converted to pressure energy in the steam. The pressure energy is converted to rotating kinetic energy as the steam spins a turbine. Finally the rotating kinetic energy is converted to electric energy in the generator.
What need to be done to a fuel to release the energy stored in it?
The process of combustion combines fuel with oxygen, to produce carbon dioxide and heat. If the fuel is burned in a boiler to produce steam, this heat energy is converted to pressure energy in the steam. The pressure energy is converted to rotating kinetic energy as the steam spins a turbine. Finally the rotating kinetic energy is converted to electric energy in the generator.
how on heating a liquid at its boiling point heat energy converted to potential energy?
You are transferring the heat into the water and changing it into steam. Steam has potential energy that can be released by cooling and expansion. This potential energy is released either in heat or can be converted back to kinetic energy by its expansion. This is how power plants work. Some fuel is burned to heat water to steam. Which contains potential energy converted from the heat of the burning fuel. This potential energy releases heat and kinetic energy as it is allowed to expand pushing and driving the turbines that turn the electric generators, and thus the kinetic energy is, by way of the generator converted to electric energy.
Can heat be converted other types of energy?
The most common method is to convert the heat into steam and use the steam to drive mechanical devices such as engines and turbines.
How coal energy changed into mechanical energy?
By burning the coal. The stored chemical eneregy is converted to heat energy. That may be used to create steam. Expanding steam pushes a piston or turbine, converting the heat energy to mechanical energy.
What kind of energy is coverted when you burn gasoline?
Chemical energy is converted into heat energy.Chemical energy is converted into heat energy.Chemical energy is converted into heat energy.Chemical energy is converted into heat energy.
Can heat energy be converted to potential energy?
Yes. This happens, for example, when steam is used to raise something like a balloon.
How is nuclear energy converted into other useful forms of energy?
Nuclear material is allowed to heat in a controlled environment. That heat is used to make steam. the steam runs giant turbines that generate electricity.
Is energy wasted in a coal - fired power plant?
Chemical energy is released when the coal burns with oxygen in the air. This energy is used to heat water, which is converted into steam. Not all of the energy is used to heat the water. Some of it is wasted by being transferred as heat to the surroundings. The energy of the steam is used to turn the turbines, but some of the steam energy is wasted.
What is geothermal energy and how is converted to electricity?
Geothermal energy is heat and is converted into electricity by heating water, creating steam which turns a turbine and then the big complex process begins.
