Power Plant Engineering

Nuclear Waste Disposal and Safety

Nuclear Waste Disposal and Safety: Introduction – Nuclear Waste Disposal and Safety from nuclear power plants activities, defense related nuclear weapon activities or other applications of nuclear technology is hazardous to many life forms and the environment. It poses a problem of handling and protecting the environment to be safe to the present and future generations. …

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Automatic Combustion Control System

Automatic Combustion Control System: Automatic Combustion Control System is very popular nowadays and this has been developed mainly to maintain load against demand, to prevent smoke, to increase boiler house efficiencies, to carry out routine adjustments and to provide interlocking safeguards. If we want to change the rate of combustion, then the draught, air supply …

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Fuel Cell Working Principle and Schematic Diagram

Fuel Cell Working Principle and Schematic Diagram: Fuel Cell Working Principle explains that it is an electrochemical device that converts chemical energy of a conventional fuel directly into low voltage D.C. electrical energy. It is then described as a primary battery in which fuel and oxidizer are stored external to the battery and fed to …

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Biogas Power Plant Working, Site Selection and Application

Biogas Power Plant Working, Site Selection and Application: Introduction – Biogas is a combustible gas mixture of methane, carbon dioxide, water and hydrogen sulphide produced during the anaerobic decomposition of organic matter. During anaerobic digestion, wastes are treated and degraded and biogas is produced. Anaerobic treatment also has the advantage over aerobic treatment of a …

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Geothermal Power Plant Working Principle

Geothermal Power Plant Working Principle: Geothermal Power Plant Working Principle – The growing demand of power will exhaust all fossil fuel sources in few decades. Therefore there is a permanent need for unconventional energy sources such as sun, wind, tidal and geothermal. The geothermal energy has a great potential and is being commercially exploited in …

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Pumped Storage Power Plant – Operating Modes and Types

Pumped Storage Power Plant – Operating Modes and Types: Introduction – Pumped Storage Power Plant are generally used for peak loads. An interconnected system of pumped storage plants are more suitable, when the quantity of water available for power generation is insufficient in peak period and also highly suitable for areas of high dam construction. Pumped …

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