thermal power station is a power plant in which heat energy is converted to electric power. In most of the places in the world the turbine 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 known as a Rankine cycle. The greatest variation in the design of thermal power stations is due to the different heat sources; fossil fuel dominates here, although nuclear heat energy and solar heat energy are also used. Some prefer to use the term energy center because such facilities convert forms of heat energy into electrical energy.[1]
Certain thermal power plants also are designed to produce heat energy for industrial purposes, or district heating, or desalination of water, in addition to generating electrical power.
Thermal power plants use water as working fluid. Nuclear and coal based power plants fall under this category. The way energy from fuel gets transformed into electricity forms the working of a power plant. In a thermal power plant a steam turbine is rotated with help of high pressure and high temperature steam and this rotation is transferred to a generator to produce electricity.
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u know INDIA contributed (1/8)th of total electricity to the world
and INDIA's second largest thermal powerplant capacity of 4620 MW is stablished in kutchh.
And im belongs to kutchh.....proud on my district.
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thermal power plants are very interesting! i just visited a geothermal power plant in Germany this summer. i live in Basel, Switzerland and here they wanted to build one to, but they had to shut down the drilling. the water-pressure caused to many earthquakes. the geological underground is very sensitive to these high water pressures. i think in future, the options to build these power plants will get much better.
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