Power Generation

 

Description

A thermal power station is a power plant in which the prime mover is steam driven. Water is heated, turns into steam and spins a steam turbine which drives an electrical generator. After it passes through the turbine, the steam is condensed in a condenser and recycled to where it was heated; this is know as a Rankine cycle. The greated variation in the design of thermal power stations is due to the different fossil fuel resources generally used to heat the water.

 

Boiler and steam cycle

Feed water heating and deaeration

Boiler operation

Boiler furnace and steam drum

Superheater

Steam condensing

Reheater

Air path

Trubine generator

Stack gas path and cleanup

Fly ash collection

Bottom as collection and disposal

 

Auxiliary systems

Boiler make-up water treatment plant and storage

Fuel preparation system

Barring gear

Oil system

Generator cooling

Generator high-voltage system

Monitoring and alarm system

Battery-supplied emergency lighting and communication