How do coal power plants work?
Amanda Bennett asked:
i know nuthing about them all i know is they mine the coal and deliver it, so can you help by putting it in order?
i know nuthing about them all i know is they mine the coal and deliver it, so can you help by putting it in order?
they burn coal to boil water that makes steam to turn a steam turbine that drives a generator to produce eletricity
Well when the coal gets delivered to the power plant they put it in multiple furnaces to create smoke. When the smoke rises it turns a turbine on the way out. As the turbine turns, it creates electricity which then gets sent from the local power plant to your home.
Coal Plants, Oil Plants and Nuclear Power Plants all work the same way by burning a fuel to heat water, turning the water into steam, using the steam to turn a turbine, and then cooling the water to run it back through the cycle again. The turning turbine creates electricity.
The old steam locomotives work in the same manner, only they release some of the steam into the environment, power plants try to maintain a closed loop. In coal plants the fuel is coal, as it is in oil powered plants. In nuclear plants the fire is replaced with a nuclear pile, and the water it heats and turns into steam is run through a heat exchanger to heat water and turn a turbine. But, the basic system is the same.
A turbine is a section that fills the pipe and can turn on an axial. The steam pushes the turbine blade making it spin the axial which turns the rotor. The rotor is a winding of wire and rotates in a magnetic field made by a large permanent magnet. When you move a wire though a magnetic field you create electricity in the wire. This is how a turbine makes electricity.
Coal is burnt to make water boil, the boiling water pushes a turbine’s blades around which turns the rotor inside of a magnetic field creating electricity in the wires of the rotor. Since the wire rotates from north to south the electricity runs from positive to negative or it is alternating current. That is the kind of power you get from a wall socket.
Most electrical devices turn the AC into direct current to operate.
Very basically….
*..Coal is first pulverised to powder for easier combustion.
*..It is then fed into the ‘Firebox’ of a boiler and ignited.
*..The heat of combustion is transferred to treated water via hundreds of water tubes lining the inside of the boiler where the water is converted into High Pressure, Superheated steam.
*..The steam is passed to high power Steam Turbines that are connected to Electricity Generators that produce large quantities of Electrical Power.
*..The Power is passed to the National Power Grid for distribution to consumers…Industrial and Domestic.
(Except for the Fuel, Nuclear Power Plants work in exactly the same way, where the heat of the Atomic Fission Reaction is used for the steam production).
Coal is burned in boilers to produce heat.Boiler gives this heat to water,produce very high temperature/pressure steam.Steam goes into turbine. Turbine rotate at controlled speed and coupled to Generator
Generator produce electric power.This is stepped up to high voltage for transmission