How a coal power station works

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The steam condensing is also use to power the turbines. And the exhaust gasses heat the induction air.

depends on what kind of boiler it is some are split like a and b side or a b&w boiler and just open. on a old school boiler your ur igniters face each other in a x shape. To get the boiler up to heat the igniter comes on first which is mainly diesel you heat comes up then they start hangin the meat to it. if you never been in a 750mw unit or anything bigger its hard to get a picture of how everything works

so how much power those that coal plant needs to operate the machine and what's the ignition fuel ..

I agree with you I just did a gas turbine plant start up in Texas! HOT!!! and it was outside! I've been in old plants down south and they can keep em' most have been shut down. I started out in the Navy in the bottom of a ship surrounded by steel with a big ass boiler right in the middle. HOT HOT HOT!

im kind of amazed at some of the comments, and not only that, but the ones that received thumbs up, and the ones that got thumbs down.

how many of you even know where the coal comes from? im not talking about how it was formed, im talking about how it was mined. ever heard of mountain top removal?

what about sludge ponds?

those are clean, right?

what about the tva ash spill?

global warming aside, theres nothing remotely "clean" about coal.

mainly from texas

what do you know about coal? ever worked in a powerplant? i thought not....go away, looney kid!

I agree coal is EXTREMELY DIRTY! But things have been done to clean up emissions using FDG's, bag houses ect.(Flue Gas Desulphurization) wet mixture of lime is sprayed directly into the flue gas path it reacts with So2 and is then collected in a calcium slurry. about 90% effective. I'm a Mech. Engineer in the power industry and I try to stay out of coal plants. I like Gas Turbines and Nukes myself. I'm not against coal as long as the proper steps are taken to keep it as clean as possible.

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