Load curve & load duration curve
Load Curve
Load curve is plot of load in kilowatts versus time usually for a day or a year.
Definition
The curve showing the variation of lo
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Objective and types of tariff
Tariff means the schedule of rates framed for supply of electrical energy to the various categories of consumers. All types of tariffs must
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Geothermal power plant
Geothermal wells are drilled at suitable locations. Water vaporized into steam comes out of the earth’s surface in a dry condition at around
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Tidal power plant
The tidal power plants are generally classified on the basis of the number of basins used for the power generation.
They are further subdiv
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Solar thermal power plant
In a flat plate collector, the radiation energy of the sun falls on a flat surface coated with black paint having high absorbing capacity.
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Hydro-electric power plant
Hydro electric power plant, the energy of water utilized may be potential or kinetic.
The potential energy of water is used to run water tur
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Wind electric system
Converts kinetic energy in moving air into electrical energy. If mechanical energy is directly used it’s termed as wind mill.
Winds are bas
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Fast breeder reactor & Gas cooled reactor
In this reactor the core containing U235 in surrounded by a blanket (a layer of fertile material placed outside the core) of fertile materia
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Boiling water reactor (BWR)
In BWR, enriched fuel is used. This reactor can be safely operated using natural convection within the core. The pressure in the forced circ
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Pressurized water reactor (PWR)
In PWR, the water that cools the nuclear fuel at a higher pressure and doesn’t convert into steam. Because of the higher pressure, this prim
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Liquid metal cooled nuclear reactor
This reactor uses two liquid metal coolants. Liquid sodium (Na) as the primary coolant and an alloy of sodium potassium (NaK) as the seconda
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CANDU type reactor
These reactors are more economically to those nations that don’t produce enriched uranium because enrichment of uranium is very costly.
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Diesel engine power plant
Diesel engine consists of the following components and process. These are
Fuel supply system
Air intake system
Cooling system
Lubricating sy
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Nuclear power plant
Fuel of a nuclear reactor should be fissionable material which might be defined as an element or isotope whose nuclei are often caused to en
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Gas turbine power plant
Gas turbine power plants are classified into two types. These are
Open cycle gas turbine power plant
Closed cycle gas turbine power plant
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Cooling system and types of cooling system in power plant
During combustion method the peak gas temperature within the cylinder of an internal combustion engine is of the order of 2500 K.
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Lubrication systems in diesel power plant
In this post, I explained about lubrication systems in diesel power plant.
Liquid lubrication system
Splash system
Semi-pressure system
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Combined cycle power plant system
A combined cycle power plant is more efficient than a conventional power plant as a result of it uses a higher proportion of the energy that
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Integrated gasifier based combined cycle system
An Integrated Gasifier Combined Cycle (IGCC) that uses a gasifier to turn coal and other carbon based fuels into gas-synthesis gas (syngas).
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Benson boiler
The pressure of the water is increased to the supercritical pressure (above critical pressure of 225 bar). Once the pressure of water is inc
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