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What is thermodynamics?
Thermodynamics is a branch of chemistry
concerned with heat and temperature and their
relation to energy and work.
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Principle behind this method
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Chemical
energy
FUEl
Heat
energy
Kinetic
energy
Electrical
energy
Boiler Turbine Generator Grid
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Problems
Non Renewable
Source
Produces
large amount
of ash
Mercury Emission
Air
pollution
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How to
tackle
it?
Recycling
ash
produced
Using new
technologic
al methods
Setting
plants
outside
residential
areas
Seprating
heavy metal
partical and
carbon
partical from
smoke
Recycling
waste water
produced
Creating
green belt
around
plants
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Problems
Non Renewable
Source
Chance of
accidental
release of
Radiation
Affect aquatic life and
Human life
Radioactive
waste
generation
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Problems
Disturbance of
habitat
Deposition
of silt
Construction of dams causes
damage to flora and fauna
Emission of
methane and
carbon dioxide
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How Generators can be improved?
โข Generator efficiency is directly related to
conserving water and increasing power
supplies. More efficient generators use less
water to produce the same amount of power.
They can also generate more power for the
same amount of water.
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โข High-voltage generation produces power at
power system voltages, thus reducing heating
losses (less current) and eliminating the need
for a step-up transformer (which has its own
losses). The results are fewer overall electrical
losses and more power delivered for the same
amount of water flow.
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โข Doubly fed machines can operate at variable
speeds (rather than at only synchronous speed),
and thus operate at the most efficient point on
the torque-speed curve when the hydraulic head
varies. For pump-generators, this has the effect of
using less power to pump the same amount of
water during the pumping portion of the pump-
generation cycle. Power costs are reduced as well
as pumping times, and wear and tear on the
machine is less
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