Overview of Generation in power plants

In the modern world the need of electricity is increasing very rapidly from domestic purposes to large industrial sector so it became necessary to produce electricity in large scale and economically.This large scale energy production could be achieved by means of suitable power producing units named ‘Power Plants or Electric Power Generating Stations or Electric Power Plants.There are mainly two aspects that should be given care while constructing or designing a plant,the first one is that the selection of equipment for the plant should be able to give maximum output ie in the form of electricity with minimum input.Input depends on the type of plant we are designing like coal,diesel,nuclear power etc and at the same time these equipments should have longer life.The second aspect is that the plant should be able to give cheap,reliable and uninterrupted service.

Generating stations

Bulk electric power is produced by special plants know as generating stations or power plants.

A generating station should consists of a prime mover coupled to an alternator to produce electric power.The prime converts different energy forms like kinetic energy,potential energy,chemical energy etc into mechanical energy.The alternator converts the mechanical energy into electrical energy.The electrical energy so produced is transmitted to consumers by means of conductors called transmission lines.The prime mover and the alternator forms only the basic part of the generating station,other than this a lot of auxiliary equipments and devise are employed for a consistent and continuous power production.

Depending upon the energies or input converted by prime mover into mechanical energy,the generating stations are classified as follows

(1)Steam Power stations (2)Hydro Electric Power Stations

(3)Diesel Power Stations (4)Nuclear Power Stations

Introduction to Indian Power Plants

Power plants are also known as power station or power generation plants.Indian power plants could be broadly classified as Thermal power plant,diesel power plant or fossil fuel power plant,Hydal power plant or Hydro electric power plant,natural gas power plant,oil power plant,geothermal power plant,Steam power plant or steam turbine power plant,nuclear power plant,gas power plant and coal firing powerplant.The main part regarding a power plant is the power plant construction.It comprises of the steps like power plant design,introduction of new power plant technology,making availability of new power plant parts,power plant raw matarials etc.Not only power plant resources are needed ,power plant experts as well as power plant labourers or power plant workers are needed.Of this power plant managers has an important position.They always check the condition or stability of numerous power plant equipments.The other factor the power plant engineering department has to check is that of power plant efficiency.The power plant development depend on the power plant services and it is mainly influenced by the design adopted by the power plant creator... readmore>>