What is difference between a geothermal and thermal power plant?

Answer 1

The steam turbine blades to turn creates steam.

The steam engine, steam piston Myllng after the turn brings.

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They are both steam-engines. The turbine is purely rotative; the reciprocating steam-engine uses cylinders and pistons.

Answer 2

Gas turbine works on bryton cycle where as steam turbine works Rankine cycle. Construction, operation of a gas turbine are entirely different to steam turbine. Gas turbine has a compressor to compress the combustion air, a combustion chamber to burn the fuel and a turbine section to extract the work for burning fuel. Steam turbine is just has a turbine section to extract the work from steam.

Answer 3

A thermal power plant burns a fuel (normally a fossil fuel such as oil, gas or coal) to heat water and generate steam, this then turns a turbine and dynamo and generates electricity.

Geothermal takes steam directly from the earth, which is normally heated by volcanic action; the steam is piped to to the surface where it is used to drive a turbine and dynamo which then generates electricity. Geothermal can also be used to heat houses directly by piping the steam through a connected pipe system. This is used in areas where there is volcanic activity, such as Iceland.

Geothermal is "clean" energy as it does not produce any of the harmful byproducts that burning fossil fuels do.

Answer 4

A steam turbine uses water vapor which is called steam to make mechanical energy where a gas turbine uses any gas (may be methane, natural gas, flue gas) to make mechanical energy.

Answer 5

both are same........thermal power plant is one which produces power by means of steam....