Solar Power Technology

There are lots of benefit using solar cell as sources for public facilities, one of the examples is for public street lighting. Unlike ordinary lighting that requires electric power sources, in terms of long distance or isolated location, these solar cell lighting could be applied in there, and it could save costs for installment and [...]

In a gas turbine plant where oil, natural gas, or synthesis gasmaybe used as a fuel, the hot combustion gases are directly used to drive a gas turbine, rather than transferring heat to steam and driving a steam turbine. This requires a different turbine, appropriate for the much higher temperature of the combustion gases and [...]

The boiler is the central component of a fossil-fueled steam power plant. Most modern boilers are of the water wall type, in which the boiler walls are almost entirely constructed of vertical tubes that either carry feed water into the boiler or carry steam out of the boiler. The first water wall boiler was developed [...]

The role of the burner is to provide a thorough mixing of the fuel and air so that the fuel is completely burned. Ignition is accomplished by a spark-ignited light oil jet until the flame is self-sustaining. In the combustion chamber a pulverized coal particle or atomized oil droplet burns in a fraction of a [...]

In a fossil-fueled power plant the chemical energy inherent in the fossil fuel is converted first to raise the enthalpy of the combustion gases; that enthalpy is transferred by convection and radiation to a working fluid (usually, water/steam); the enthalpy of the working fluid is converted to mechanical energy in a turbine; and finally the [...]