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Why are thermal power plants situated near rivers?
Power plants use the river water as a coolant.
Where do we get electricity?
Most African countries use coal powered plants to supply electricity. South Africa is the country that generates and consumes the most electricity on the continent of Africa and has a nuclear plant, along with using other energy sources such as wind, solar and water.
What is the importance of load factor in power system planning?
load factor is the ratio of average load to max demand for a given period.High load factor meansless cost per KWHmore efficient use of power plant
How does a Coal Power station produce electricity?
An electrical power station has alternators that convert mechanical energy into electromotive force. They are usually driven by steam turbines of a two stage design. The steam is generated in boilers heated by burning pulverized coal, natural gas or a nuclear reactor. Where more power is needed or space is limited, gas turbines directly drive the alternators. This is a quick short answer, but perhaps good enough.Answeralternators are used to convert things like coal or gas (mechanical energy) to electro motive force which is the voltage produced by an electric battery or generator.ANSWER : in many power stations, fossil fuels are burnt. the energy is used to heat water and turn it to steam.the steam is forced through turbines making them turn around to power the huge generators. these are large magnets inside massive coils of wire. a moving magnet inside a coil of wire creates electricity (an electrical current)the electricity flows along the cables into the national grid
Do non-electronic toasters draw power when not in use?
yes they do, in fact the toaster draws power more when it is not in use
What is the principle of thermal power plant?
To produce electricity by the use of thermal energy in the form of heat.
What is the main source of energy use by the power plant?
Thermal energy
What is the use of thermal power plant?
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What is a LP rotor?
low pressure rotor as i know in some of the thermal power plant they may use for this type of rotars
Example of thermal to electrical energy?
Thermocouples directly convert thermal into electrical energy by using two unlike alkaline metals and having them react. There are indirect conversions as well, such as coal and nuclear power plants. The coal is burned to boil water which then uses the steam to turn turbines. Nuclear power plants are similar, except they use a nuclear reaction to generate heat to boil water.
How does solar power use thermal energy?
The sun, the source of solar power, is full of heat. Therefore it has thermal energy
Does a toaster use nuclear energy and how?
A toaster converts electrical energy into thermal energy. Some of that electrical energy may have come from a nuclear power plant.
What companies use coal?
A Thermal based power plant have large type of coal consumption and secondly the cement and steel industries have large coal consumption.
What is the most common type of power plant?
The most common type of power plant is one that uses fossil fuels such as coal, oil or natural gas. Less common power plants use nuclear, geo-thermal, hydro-electric, wind, solar, or other power sources to run the plants.
Why thermocouples are preferable to use in industry?
Thermocouples allow for higher temperature measurement than thermometers. These high temperatures are often found in industrial applications.
Can old boiler thermocouples be dangerous?
nope. they are completely safe to use
How does a thermal power plant work?
Thermal power plant uses heat source like burning coil, gas, wood or natural heat sources like solar heat or geysirs. Heat is transformed to vaporising water. When water turns into steam it has lot of energy(entalphy) in it. this energy is used in wanted application as turbine or central heating. Most of the energy is where the steam turns back to water. Thermal power plant usually has both electric turbine and distributional heating because of better use of energy. Electric power production pays more and some applications are made only for electric production.
