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Turbines
In order to spin or rotate the many loops of wire
through the magnetic field, power plant generators use
turbines. Turbines work the opposite way to fans.
Turbines turn or spin as a result of moving air, water, or
steam that moves over the blades. But fans, rotate the
blades to create moving air.
Making steam
Many of the power plants use steam to power
generators. Water is heated by burning fossil fuels
or through nuclear reaction, and when the water is
boiling, steam is produced. Then the steam move the
turbines to force them to rotate and create electrical
energy.
My power plant
The power plant I would make would be the solar thermal trough power
plant. I would locate it in the Laguna Salada in Mexicali. This is because
the Laguna Salada always has sun, so it can always keep the solar panels
working.
How it works
To construct this power plant, I would need the next construction materials: thousands of slightly
curved mirrors, or heliostats. Also heat storage, to be able to store the heat from the sun. Also a
cooling system with a tank. Generator, a turbine, a reheater, superheater, vaporizer, economizer,
HTF pump, feed water pump, condenser, and a grid. The heliostats are going to be located all
together forming a vary of rows of mirrors. When the solar energy is collected, it is transferred
through a tunnel to pass through a hot tank and a cool tank. Then it moves back through the
tunnels and goes through a superheater, vaporizer, and an economizer. some is transferred back
through HTF pump, other is used for the turbie, and from the turbine it goes to the reheater or a
condenser which leads to a cooling tower. From the cooling tower, it gets transferred back through
a feedwater pump. From the turbine, then is transferred to the generator which then give electrical
energy to the grid the create electricity. I would also use molten salt so that energy is still
produced even though the sun isn't out.
Calculations
11,135 W to power a regular
household. To power 2,000 houses.
1 MW=1,000,000 W
11,135 times 2,000= 22,270,000 W
22.27 MW
This is the amount, 22.27 MW,
that would take for to power 2,000
households.
Summary
My power plant, by only using solar power, if going to have a great
effect on the environment and the world. This is because, that by using
a solar power plant instead of a power plant using fossil fuels or
burning up stuff, you use the things that mother nature has given to
us. The field losses of constructing such a thing would be lower than
10%. Solar thermal trough power plants can reach an annual
efficiency of about 15%. And unlike fossil fuel power generating
facilities, solar power facilities have a very low air pollution
emissions. Also the construction of this solar power plants can cause
both direct and indirect employment.