How do you make electricity from coal - 3D animated tutorial

[27mehedi]

great job....really instructive



[hellokumarmanish]

VERY INFORMATIVE

[25cutebunny]

thx so much for the video. it helped me to do my project for school and i got an A+ :)

[frankr409]

Excellent video. Very informative.

[dynamicaster]

thank u

[arseniyonline1234555]

surely it can be made more efficient by adding more turbines????

[Rajkumar0304]

Its a very useful piece of work for educating interested people. Great Job First Energy and its team of people who made it.

[MrThewillows]

a helpful video

a silly error on the transformer I did notice and I'm sure your aware of..

they do not boost power but simply increase potential difference to lower amps through lines. it is done so for effficiency purposes to reduce heating of lines,

[sbunjerd]

This is useful thing to my job....thank a lot

[josiahsavino]

One of the best and informative videos I have seen on this topic. Great Job guys

[edpvideo]

@josiahsavino Thanks!

[zubinbutt98]

@MiKExAUS -i had the same ques in my mind.

[MiKExAUS]

why do they cool the water that has condensed from steam after being run through the turbines? why don't they send the warm condensed water that has been through the turbines already, back into the water source that gets heated by the coal without cooling by splitting it into droplets etc? wouldn't this make the process more efficient because you wouldn't need as much heat to turn the warm water into steam again? why do they want to cool the water if it is just going to be heated again?

[Saluki388]

@MiKExAUS I think you are confusing two different water systems. The water being sent out to be cooled is not the water put into the boiler. It is sent from the cooling tower through pipes in the condenser that the steam simply flows around to condense the steam back to water. The steam that has condensed flows directly from the condenser through a series of heaters and back to the boiler.

[night333x]

@MiKExAUS

totally agree this tech looks stupid. I heard coal power plant efficiency is only about 31 percent.

This is maybe related to overheating issue.

[Saluki388]

@night333x You might need to get better sources, I don't know if you saw my reply to MIKExAUS, but it explains it.

[xuhongacu]

it is really helpful to me

even i m a boiler engineer ,but i can not show all the process so clearly as this video . u did a good job , first energy!

[edpvideo]

@xuhongacu Thanks for the great comment!

[archades54]

I believe because water in liquid form has more surface area and can take up more heat, vs steam but that's a pure guess.

[Haimendra]

NICE VIDEO!!..IT HELPS A LOT.

[joesophie90]

Can anyone answer this: If you had a cable that was long enough to go all the way round the world connected to a light bulb and at the other end a plug, how long would it take for the light bulb to light up or be powered once the plug at the other side of the world was plugged in? Seriously, I would like to know! :)

[MrVikas07]

Why we need to condense the steam, when we heat it again to produce steam?

[seeforsenthil]

Great upload... this video is really helpful for young power plant engineers like me...

Thanks guys..

[jeremysnowdenz]

Very inciteful & responsible. Great job.

[PotatoCow1]

lol i watched this video in science class today, and my friends and i started cracking up at 2:02

[zackis480]

i always wondered how they used coal to make power. very cool vid to show how its done. i do believe we should have more coal plants and start shutting down nuklear power plants. i say yes to coal plants. Thumbs up here.

[yggels]

nice upload! I was intrigued on how coal steam works after a friend who works on a coal plant explained some of the process. and this video helped clarify what he was explaining :).

[Punkkiller1000]

nice video but i think everyone knows it by the age of 12 so it is a little bit useless

[rawheas]

@Punkkiller1000 im quite sure that there are very few 12 year olds who understand power generation at a level as complex as this video shows.

[PotatoCow1]

@rawheas yeah, i'm 12 and i didn't know this until i watched this vid today in science. 2:02 was the best part. lol

[nuurgedi]

This is really helpful for all !

[quangnh2007]

It's very usefull. Thank you for uploading

[BabarAmeenKhan]

The Best video ever seen on you tube, 6 persons who disliked, are really stupid, dont know about the purpose to make this video

Thanks for Downloader

[AlterJoker]

Блин, народ, а можно было субтитры пустить? С русской озвучкой подобное видео я уже и не надеюсь найти, но хотя бы субтитры прочёл.

[lenik212]

have you all TEXT from these Video please !!!

[mrkyrk5]

Thank you so much. This video series has helped many students expand their understanding.

[kennethmayuyo]

go nuclear power save the thousand of mountain of coal

[steveorama1978]

@kennethmayuyo yes! and risk the same amount of lives or more than whats goin on in japan right now, sounds lovely, nothing like a nuclear meltdown for the sake of the enviroment....im a coal miner and i'd rather shoot coal dust and carbon monoxide in the atmosphere than poison everybody wit radation.

[zackis480]

@steveorama1978 i agree with you on that. nuclear power was ok back i the day but like you said, look at what happened in japan. shut them down and replace with coal plants. i would work for one to be part of something good.

[humanpotential7]

@zackis480 They produce far too much air pollution.

[ByrtusMarketing]

i like this video!

[thecarrots5]

I feel like i jus went one a virtual tourguide! awesome!

[Gunnar00]

amazing video. thank you!

[SuperFAIZ09]

WAAW love just the way thay just explain it (Y)

[LKZinitials]

This was really helpful. Thanks a lot!

[edpvideo]

@LKZinitials Great. Thanks for commenting. Glad it helped.

[eosrk]

Supercritical boilers.....I don't think they have steam drums at all...

[comedytracker]

Water vapor? Wow the news told me that that was dirty carbon.

hahaha lol

[TheRobert2254]

hippies need 2 watch this video and geat better idea

[MegaMissymee]

dude! you totally helped me ace my science h/w

[deezynar]

A power plant converts one form of power, like coal's chemical power, into moving the electricity that's ALWAYS in wires. Also, in alternating current systems such as this, the electricity in the wire never moves more than a tiny fraction of an inch. It moves a bit one way, then it moves back to its starting point, 60 full cycles a second in the US. That tiny movement however is enough to transmit a lot of power. Therefore, you don't "make" electricity. You use it to transmit power.

[AP3Brain]

Good informative video. I like how they are trying to cut down how much electricity generation is bad for the environment.

[SheliaVanessae]

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[manolitomulat]

i like this video

[eosrk]

How many wind turbines and solar panel you need to make 2000MW....a whole hell of a lot of them.....

[48stevemr]

...Great, very informative and great to know that the 'killer coal' is infact not our enemy anymore as most of its environment destroying chemicals are removed whilst supplying building material as a bi-product....

[lamar4567]

I like the video. i live in Wyo and now see it's importance

[bamzie08]

it would be better if there is a name of the components, equipments and auxiliaries of the power plant.

But its very interesting..good job!

[acercompiler]

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[Rusty1220]

Very good video, most people are totally clueless about electricity production.  Coal is extremely valuable for electricity and steel production. I lived in coal country and retired from coal mining.

[easysmile4u]

gr88 video

[dtchunkbrown]

great video- helping me understand the flow, thanks a lot.

[aks1996naga]

This is a very informative video perfectly explaining every part of a Thermal Power Plant.

this really was very useful for my project

[Rubenleesims]

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[fonziefootystar]

THANKYOU NOW I CAN GET A GOOD GRADE

[dhannymonroe]

this video perfect.. thank you for share this video

[eshwarbandari]

excellent

[effedieffedi]

OMG 0.0 AMAZING VIDEO .... Perfect !!!

Wich software you used ?

[8213NATE]

No Green! Keep coal alive! Excellent Video!

[shalfrnds]

Usefull,,, please upload How the Steam rotating turbine plades,,,,

[shalfrnds]

Excellent Video...........

[ElProfGringo]

Excellent Vid!

All of those enviromental wackos want us to live in the stone age, isn't going to happen!

America is the Saudi Arabia of Coal. Cheap, abundant, safe. Coal powers the US and the world.

"Green" power is a JOKE! Wind and solar only work for peak power production, but do nothing for base power production. Coal and nuclear are the 2 main sources of energy in the world. That isn't going to change anytime soon.

[bp56789]

@ElProfGringo We will eventually need to use some alternative power, probably nuclear fusion. Solar panels can be put on people's roofs so they aren't useless. But it makes no sense to have fields of solar panels or wind panels, it's a waste of land; that money should be used into nuclear fusion research.

Fusion power is one thousand times more efficient than fission nuclear power and the fuel is hydrogen (the ocean), so we can pretty much use it forever.

[bp56789]

@ElProfGringo When I said "wind panels" I meant "wind turbines"

[ElProfGringo]

@bp56789

Cool

[axesoy]

I live in Sydney and I was going by a power station today thats looks exactly the same (to me) and I was wondering how the process works.. Thanks for the interesting facts!

[Sayeedur123]

@axesoy i went to Didcot power station

[TheSundararaj]

buffering time is more can be reduced

[eosrk]

I like this, for I worked in combined cycle, solid fuel, and liquid boiler plants....Navy has Type D liquid boilers...they may still have a few

[Section014]

I'm in 7th grade and trust me, no one likes to learn - especially me. But for some reason this video makes this subject interesting - I don't know why, nor do I want to know why, but it just gives it an interesting thought.

[ginniross]

This video is perfect to show students how coal produces electricity and the various transfers of energy.  Thank you.

[grolim500]

sweet upload

[georg841984]

it is positive that they do care about the enviroment co2 is a problem

but they take steps to take care of al the

other waste that is positive not all coalpowerplants do that but co2 is stil a problem

[dirtTdude]

a refresher course in 7th grade science might show that CO2 is Carbon dioxide , CO is Carbon monoxide and C is carbon. I'm grateful for the lectures on Carbon dioxide and Carbon monoxide... but i really just wanted to know about the carbon

[TheRealArchAngel]

No, because of supper fine pulverazation of the coal (vs shoveling it in like on a old train) and the mixing with air, and injecting the coal into a preheated boiler that is an encliosed systema and doesn't allow the minimially unburnt waste to ever touch air neither CO or co2 ever forms...all you get going through the chemical scrubers and flyash catchers is unsoldering grains that can't make co or co2 (smirk)

Twoards the end they even say the main exhaust out that Stack is Nitrogen &Water

[georg841984]

if there is no co2 coming out then there is no grenhouse gas problem with burning coal anymore why are al the ewiromen talists so afraid of coal plants then?

pleace explain if im wrong

[TheRealArchAngel]

The Environut Extremist against technology and modern civilization has always been around....they basically want us back to living in caves and swinging from the trees rather then using coal and oil and technology

They forget Coal is part of the Earth,sedimentary rocks of hydrocarbon just like the ones on Titan,meteors,and comments

Likewise Oil/petroleum/natural Gas is also from the earth and is also found on Titan, comets,meteors,and even in the atmosphere of Jupiter and Saturn

[TheRealArchAngel]

P.S. There was never any Co2 problem with burning Coal

The Major gas that forms when unburnt smoldering coal ash touches oxygen is and always has been Carbon Monoxide(CO) not Carbon Dioxide(CO2)

CO2 can only be made by chemical cohersion like through a catalyst converter that turn Carbon Monoxide into Carbon Dioxide in cars before 1994 or by secondary fusion, never,ever by "Oxidization"

Carbon Monoxide is by smoldering carbon particles spontaniously oxidizing & is chemically stable

[boolykbol]

@TheRealArchAngel how can it turn Carbon Monoxide to CO2?

[TheRealArchAngel]

Catalyst converters like the one in the Coal Plant filtration system converting Nitous Oxide use chemical Electrolisis to spit up or combine molcules

A Co to co2 catalyst converter would leectro-chemically force the extra Oxygen Molocule on the Very stable Carbon monoxide Molocule that results from inperfect combustion ("Perfect Combustion" makes heat and force only)

[dirtTdude]

nice, how much carbon does a typical coal burning plant inject in to the atmosfear per hour?

[TheRealArchAngel]

No more then they sucked in with the air.

Without Heated Carbon gunk hitting air theire is no Carbon Monoxide and without a Catalst converter converting that Carbon monoxide to Carbon Dioxide Combustion technology and it's filtration systems do not "Create" Co2...which is why it is nevermentioned

They just said twoards the end their "created gas" is Nitrogen and created substance is water

[TheRealArchAngel]

No more then it took in with the air, for even without all the filtration system burning coal creates Carbon Monoxide if it touches air,not carbon dioxide

[dirtTdude]

you already said that.... and i still don't believe it, try again later

[airpower123]

learn to spell before complaining about co2.

atmosfear LMFAO

[dirtTdude]

i can spell 'eat shit' and 'die'

[airpower123]

how about you lick my balls?

i burn petrol in every morning for fun, and watch the co2 go into the atmosfear and luagh my pants off. ulike this?

[dirtTdude]

I doubt you have any balls.... I burn gas in my car too, that was not my question you retard.. Also, if you had enough general intelligence to know the difference between co2 and carbon I may argue with you but sense you have no balls, no brains and no clue, just piss off and live in the glory of your spelling excellence and douchebagery in silence.

[s16100]

very good video. Thanks for sharing.

[Lucjan47]

Thanks for this presentation. Very good and interesting the graphic explanation the working of conventional power station. Hmm...this is my work from 25 years :-)

[zivbaziv]

Thank u ! u got me an A

[zivbaziv]

You helped me study for a test in stead of reading the book TY

[chenyi717]

THANK YOU SO MUCH!

[RodrigoEvill]

the best video!!

[Makemyday0126]

Cooling towers are Old Hat In UK and ireland, now they re use the steam in two stage turbines.

[DrBuzz0]

That doesn't matter. Even if you have a regenerative system you still need to cool the condensor. It's basic thermodynamics. No heat engine is 100% effecient and they all need to be cooled to produce energy. If there are no cooling towers than that means the plant is being cooled by water in a nearby river or other body of water.

you can't just "reuse" the steam. It does not work that way. Without a condenser there is no pressure differential.

[Supercolonic]

You're right, you must have the phase transition from water to steam to create the pressure which does the work in the turbines, however the steam is actually reused one time during this cycle. After clearing the HP turbine the steam is piped back to the reheater sections of the boiler before running through the IP/LP turbines. The steam does expand just a bit during this process, though the main goal is to keep the steam hot enough to keep from condensing on the turbine blades, ruining them.

[drg1ix]

Excellent video, thank you for posting it.

[samueldakin]

you have to condense the steam to be able to move it back to the water heater

[radhikapavan]

wonderful video.........

[arboloco1]

This is great, thank you.

[jsmith2007LOL]

I'm not scientist or such, but the hot steam seems contain energy and should be able to 'harvest' rather than using the cooling tower to cool it, am I missing something here?

[SleepymanDan]

Some cooling is required by the second law of Thermo, as DrBuzz0 stated above. Still, there is some available energy in the steam after the turbine. However, without the condensor, there is no vacuum created and the gas doesn't move through the turbine as well as it should. Trying to do too much with the steam coming out of the turbine can be likened to a turbocharger in a car. Even though you are using the remaining energy to get more power, you actually end up with lower gas mileage.

[Supercolonic]

It is the phase transition from water to steam that creates the pressure required to spin the turbines, so you must start with water. The steam turbines are so good at "harvesting" the energy from the steam that there is very little left as it exhausts the low pressure turbines. The condenser, besides recovering the water, uses the phase transition from steam to water to create negative pressure on the exhaust end of the LP turbines, eliminating back-pressure and increasing efficiency by 3%.