It scavanges oxygen in water systems to prevent corrosion of piping.
A combined cycle power plant has multiple thermodynamic cycles. This increases efficiency. For example, a gas turbine can be used to produce electricity, but only about 40% of the heat is actually converted in the process. 60% of the heat is lost, and in a single cycle plant would be considered waste heat. In a combined cycle plant, that waste heat could be used to drive a second, steam turbine to produce more electricity. In such a case, the efficiency could be increased from 40% to nearly 60%. It is possible to go further. The waste heat from the combined cycle electric plant can be used to heat buildings, for instance, increasing overall efficiency to more than 65%. This is called Cogeneration.
Steam driven power plants necessarily lose heat , regardless of how the power is generated (oil, nuclear, geothermal, etc.), because only about 35% to 40% of the energy in the steam can be recovered to make power. This can be improved a little bit by having a secondary system, called a combined cycle system. It can also be improved by using waste heat to heat buildings. The limit, by combining all of these, seems to be a little less than 70% efficiency.
It depends on the type of power plant. Some of the most common is coal (which is used to make steam to create power) one of the least common in the us is nuclear power.
Mostly to drive the steam turbine. Smaller amounts may be used for in house tasks like preheating feed water.
It removes the gases present in the steam,given by heaters.dearater is necessary otherwise the gases in steam will corrode the boiler and also affect the turbine.
There is no such thing as a heat power cycle in a steam engine.The power stroke, or strokes, result from pressurised steam being let into the cylinder and moving the piston.
No It has heat recovery steam generator
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A modern combined cycle gas turbine/ steam turbine power plant can reach almost 60% efficiency.
The Carnot cycle gives the theoretical maximum efficiency of an engine operating between two heat reservoirs. The Carnot cycle is an idealized engine cycle that is thermodynamically reversible. Real systems such as power plants are not reversible, and the entropy of a real material changes with temperature (which is not accounted for by the Carnot cycle). A steam power plant operates closer to a cycle known as the Rankine cycle.
In a nuclear power plant, steam is generated by heat produced from the nuclear fission reaction. This steam is used to spin turbines connected to generators, producing electricity. The steam is then condensed back into water and reused in a continuous cycle.
The steam exiting the low pressure end of the turbine has to be condensed back to water in order to be pumped back at high pressure to the inlet of the steam raising units. The cycle is called the Rankine cycle and is common to all steam type power plants whether fossil fired or nuclear.
In Cogeneration Plant : The generated steam in boiler is used for both power generation & process heating, thereby reducing the condenstion losses compared to thermal power plant. In combined cycle first is gas turbine , rather than wasting the flue gas from gas turbine, we are sending it into boiler and again generating steam for running steam turbine. Both the ways we are increasing the thermal efficiency of the plant
The reactor in a nuclear power plant generates heat to flash water to steam, which spins turbines that generate electricity. This is not really any different, in terms of steam cycle1, than a fossil plant. Its just that the source of heat is nuclear fission of (usually) uranium-235 instead of the burning of coal, oil, or natural gas. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1Well, its a little bit different because the nuclear steam supply cycle runs best on a slightly lower pressure and temperature than a fossil fuel plant steam cycle does. Other than that, the steam and generating parts of a nuclear plant are very comparable to a fossil plant.
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All geothermal power plants use steam to turn large turbines, which run electrical generators. This steam comes from steam produced from reservoirs of hot water found a couple of miles or more below the Earth's surface. There are three types of geothermal power plants: dry steam, flash steam, and binary cycle.
A miniature steam power plant is a place where willy wonka allowed his oompa loompas to stay on holidays.