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. …
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 …
Economics in Plant Selection: Economics in Plant Selection – The plant capacity and size depends upon the power demand. A power plant should be reliable i.e. its capacity must be more than the predicted maximum demand. It is desirable that the number of generating units should be two or more than two in order to …
MHD Power Plant Working Principle: MHD Power Plant or Magneto Hydro Dynamic is concerned with the flow of a conducting fluid in the presence of magnetic and electric field. The fluid may be gas at elevated temperature or liquid like sodium (or) potassium. MHD Power Cycle Principles: Faraday’s law of electromagnetic induction states that a …
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: 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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OTEC Power Plant: Introduction – OTEC Power Plant or Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion is an energy technology, which uses the ocean’s natural temperature gradient to drive a turbine, which is connected to a generator. It is desirable that the temperature difference between the warm surface water and the cold deep water in sea should be …
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 …
Types of Solar Power Plant: The surface of earth receives energy of 1014 kW from the sun. It is evident that sun will last for 1011 year. Even though the sun light is filtered by atmosphere, for every one square meter of land exposed to direct sun light receives the energy of 1 HP (or) …
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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