How Do Coal Fired Professional Power Projects Generates Electricity? Sterling energy is a professional company that provides dedicated services for professional power projects. They endow complete services from development, operational and management services from technical consulting services. They have over 25 years of experience and have worked in more than 120 countries. They provide number of services for different technologies like solar energy, hydroelectric energy, waste and landfill gas application, reciprocating engines, biomass energy, PV technology, coal and gas fired generation. Coal is nowadays number one fuel for electricity generation all over the world. In general, coal is accounted for more than 45 percent of power production compared to other methods like natural gas, nuclear methods and other natural resources. Sterling energy has provided power plant management services for coal fired plants by unlocking energy inside the coal in heat energy and following a mechanical energy, it will be transferred in electricity. Electricity generation at coal fired professional power project starts from coal which is delivered to the station by barge or train. In the first step, coal is crushed in 2 inch diameter chunks and then it is pulverized and pounded in the dust. Air and coal dust are mixed and blown in the boiler. A furnace contains a temperature of up to 1,000 degrees, so that mixture is immediately ignited. Steam In the boiler, there are network of pipes installed to carry purified water. The heat of burning coal boils this water and turns it in steam at extremely high pressure. The pipes carry the steam to the turbine which is collected from rotating drum covered with fan blades. This high pressure steam spins the turbine up to thousands revolution per minute. Generator The generator produces the electricity from the coal. In the center of generator, a shaft is thickly covered from coiled wire and placed between giant magnets. The shaft is connected with turbine, thus when turbine spins consequently coil of wire will spin. The generator actually works on the principle of electromagnetic induction. This principle states that moving electrical conductor from magnetic field will generate electric current. A generator contains lot of conducting
material moved from magnetic field swiftly produces tremendous amount of electricity. Transformed are placed to step up the voltage of current and transmission wires will carry the electricity to the workplaces and homes. Condenser After the steam has completed its job of spinning turbines, it is passed to condensers for cooling down. The steam condenses back to water and flows back to boiler, to initiate the process all over again. Waste Waste products produced from burning of coal include gaseous byproducts like sulfur dioxide, carbon dioxides and nitrogen dioxide. It also includes fine particulates like fly ash and soot which are vented up from smokestack.