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Engineering: a branch of engineering that uses chemistry, biology, physics, and math to solve problems involving fuel, drugs, food, and many other products. [e]
Chemical engineering: a branch of engineering that uses chemistry, biology, physics, and math to solve problems involving fuel, drugs, food, and many other products [e]
Electrical engineering: the branch of engineering that deals with electricity and electromagnetism. [e]
Electrical power plant: An umbrella term for facilities to generate electric power, usually on an industrial scale. [e]- Coal: a combustible, black rock formed after millions of years of heat and pressure were applied to the decayed remains of plants and organic matter in what were then swamps. [e]
- Coal mining: the various methods used to extract coal from the ground. [e]
- Combustion: A sequence of exothermic chemical reactions between a fuel and an oxidant accompanied by the production of heat or both heat and light in the form of either a glow or flames. [e]
Other types of power plants that burn coal
- Integrated gasification combined cycle power plant: a.k.a. IGCC; uses coal to produce a synthetic gas that is burned to drive an electrical generator, while produced steam is used to drive another generator. See the Integrated gasification combined cycle article on Wikipedia. [e]
- Fluidized bed combustion power plant: burns coal in a fluidized bed; steam produced as a by-product also drives an electrical generator; see the Fluidized bed combustion article on Wikipedia [e]
- Oxygen firing power plant: a.k.a. Oxy firing plant, works like a conventional coal-fired power plant but uses oxygen instead of air to burn the coal; see the Oxy-fuel combustion process article on Wikipedia [e]
Related topics
- Air preheater: A general term to describe any device designed to preheat the combustion air used in a fuel-burning furnace for the purpose of increasing the thermal efficiency of the furnace. [e]
- Condensate polishing: An ion exchange process used to purify the steam condensate produced in high-pressure steam generation facilities such as those in large thermal power plants. [e]
- Deaerator: A device used for the removal of air and other dissolved gases from the feedwater to steam generating boilers. [e]
- Flue gas desulfurization: The technology for removing sulfur dioxide from the flue gases resulting from the combustion of coal or fuel oil in power plant steam generators or other large combustion sources. [e]
- Flue gas stack: A vertical pipe, channel or chimney (also referred to as a smokestack) through which combustion product gases (flue gases) are exhausted to the atmosphere. Includes the draft (draught) effect of hot gases flowing through tall stacks (chimneys). [e]
- Industrial cooling tower: Heat rejection systems used primarily to provide circulating cooling water in large industrial facilities. [e]
- NOx: NOx is a generic term for the mono-nitrogen oxides NO and NO2 (nitric oxide and nitrogen dioxide) [e]
- Power (physics): Rate of producing or consuming energy; SI unit: watt = joule/second. [e]
- Steam: The vapor (or gaseous) phase of water (H2O). [e]
- Steam generator: A device that uses a heat source to boil liquid water and convert it into its vapor phase, referred to as steam. [e]
- Steam turbine: Add brief definition or description
- Surface condenser: A water-cooled shell and tube heat exchanger for condensing the exhaust steam from large steam turbines. [e]
- Water: A chemical compound with one oxygen and two hydrogen atoms (H20). It is often in a liquid form and makes up the bulk of the oceans, lakes, rivers and living organisms. [e]
Other types of power plants that do not require coal
- Hydroelectric power: converts the energy in falling or flowing water in dams into electricity by directing falling or flowing water through water turbines which spin electrical generators that produce electricity; see the Hydroelectricity article in Wikipedia. [e]
- Wind power: Uses turbines inside wind mills to generate electricity or pump water or do other work; see the Wind power article Wikipedia for details. [e]
- Solar power: Energy sources based directly on the sun's electromagnetic radiation. [e]
- Geothermal power: Extracts energy from the heat stored beneath the Earth's surface and uses it for space heating or for generating electricity; see the Geothermal power article on Wikipedia for details. [e]