INTRODUCTION [SLIDE 2] Many chemical compounds found in the Earth’s atmosphere act as “greenhouse gases.” These gases allow sunlight to enter the atmosphere freely. When sunlight strikes the Earth’s surface‚ some of it is reflected back towards space as infrared radiation (heat). Greenhouse gases absorb this infrared radiation and trap the heat in the atmosphere. Over time‚ the amount of energy sent from the sun to the Earth’s surface should be about the same as the amount of energy radiated back
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Merchant power plants differ from traditional rate-based power plants as to: 1) how they are financed and 2) where they sell the electricity they generate. A merchant power plant is funded by investors and sells electricity in the competitive wholesale power market. Since a merchant plant is not required to serve any specific retail consumers‚ consumers are not obligated to pay for the construction‚ operations or maintenance of the plant. A traditional rate-based power plant‚ on the other hand
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Diesel Power Plant Figure shows the arrangements of the engine and its auxiliaries in a diesel power plant. The major components of the plant are: a) Engine Engine is the heart of a diesel power plant. Engine is directly connected through a gear box to the generator. Generally two-stroke engines are used for power generation. Now a days‚ advanced super & turbo charged high speed engines are available for power production. b) Air supply system Air inlet is arranged outside
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still fresh. But what made it worst is when the nuclear power plant in Japan exploded. The event released massive amounts of radiation into the community and has infected a lot of people. Today‚ there is a proposal to open the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant. I admit that I am afraid of the fact that the scenario that happened in Japan might happen to us Filipinos as well. For me‚ I do not agree with the proposal. Opening the nuclear power plant in Bataan was proposed because it offers a lot of benefits
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supplies of oil and natural gas are expected to run out in the near future. This has cause a growth in nuclear power. Through out this report one will also learn the disadvantages and advantages to coal burning power plant and how they operate. Coal has played a major role in electricity production ever since the first power plants were built in the world in the 1880’s. The earliest power plant used hand feed wood or coal to heat boiler and produce steam. This steam was used in reciprocation steam engines
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Piboontum‚ S. M. Smith‚ and R. S. Conrad The Babcock & Wilcox Company Barberton‚ Ohio‚ U.S.A. Presented to: Electric Power 2005 April 5-7‚ 2005 Chicago‚ IL‚ U.S.A BR-1766 Boiler Performance Improvement Due to Intelligent Sootblowing Utilizing Real-Time Boiler Modeling on UP® Boilers S. J. Piboontum The Babcock & Wilcox Company Barberton‚ Ohio‚ U.S.A. Presented to Electric Power 2005 April 5 - 7‚ 2005 Chicago‚ Illinois‚ U.S.A. S. M. Swift The Babcock & Wilcox Company Barberton‚ Ohio‚ U.S.A. R
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PROJECT TITLE: Power Plant Synopsis A power plant is a facility for the generation of electric power. Power plant is also used to refer to the engine in ships‚ aircraft and other large vehicles. Some prefer to use the term energy centre because it more accurately describes what the plants do‚ which is the conversion of other forms of energy‚ like chemical energy‚ gravitational potential energy or heat energy into electrical energy. For example‚ in the steam power plant‚ the fuel is burn
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Properties and Behavior of Gases General Properties of Gases Properties Solids Shape Definite shape Volume Definite volume Particles and movement Compressibility Density Liquids Gases No definite shape No definite shape Definite volume No definite volume Particles are Particles are close close together together and and may vibrate move randomly in place Incompressible Slightly compressible Particles are far apart and move randomly Very compressible
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equipment’s in various industrial automation applications. SCADA software‚ working on DOS and UNIX operating systems used in the 1980s‚ was an alarm-based program‚ which has a fairly simple visual interface. The SCADA system usually consists of the following subsystems: (1) A Man-Machine Interface (MMI) is the apparatus which presents process data to a human operator‚ and through this‚ the human operator‚ monitors and controls the process. (2) A supervisory system‚ acquiring data on the process and
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Fukushima Power Plant Nuclear power plants now account for 14% of the world’s electricity supply [1]. These power plants differ only by the fuel used from oil coal or gas power plants. The concept is otherwise the same. Large nuclei become unstable when struck with a neutron‚ his causes it to split apart and also produce neutrons which are fire out. This then causes a chain reaction and other nuclei are split up. This splitting of nuclei is called nuclear fission and it provides heat which heats
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