The steam is then used to drive a steam turbine in a combined cycle plant that improves overall efficiency. The waste heat from a gas turbine, in the form of hot exhaust gas, can be used to raise steam by passing this gas through a heat recovery steam generator (HRSG). Natural gas is frequently burned in gas turbines as well as boilers. JSTOR ( July 2023) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)Īlmost all coal-fired power stations, petroleum, nuclear, geothermal, solar thermal electric, and waste incineration plants, as well as all natural gas power stations are thermal.Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.įind sources: "Thermal power station" – news Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources in this section. This section needs additional citations for verification. These plants can be of the open cycle or the more efficient combined cycle type. Certain thermal power stations are also designed to produce heat for industrial purposes for district heating or desalination of water, in addition to generating electrical power.įuels such as natural gas or oil can also be burnt directly in gas turbines ( internal combustion). The design of thermal power stations depends on the intended energy source: fossil fuel, nuclear and geothermal power, solar energy, biofuels, and waste incineration are all used.
The low-pressure exhaust from the turbine enters a steam condenser where it is cooled to produce hot condensate which is recycled to the heating process to generate more high pressure steam.
In a steam-generating cycle heat is used to boil water in a large pressure vessel to produce high-pressure steam, which drives a steam turbine connected to an electrical generator. Power plant that generates electricity from heat energy Nantong Power Station, a coal-fired power station in Nantong, China Rooiwal Power Station in South Africa Geothermal power station in Iceland Drax Power Station, the world's largest biomass power station, in England PS10 solar power plant, concentrated solar thermal power station in Andalusia, SpainĪ thermal power station is a type of power station in which heat energy is converted to electrical energy.
0 kommentar(er)
