Correct Answer - Option 2 : Thermal power plant
Steam or Thermal Power Plants:
- A generating station that converts heat energy of coal combustion into electrical energy is classified as a Thermal power plant.
- The steam-electric power station is a power station in which the electric generator is steam-driven.
- Water is heated, turns into steam, and spins a steam turbine which drives an electrical generator.
- After it passes through the turbine, the steam is condensed in a condenser.
- The greatest variation in the design of steam-electric power plants is due to the different fuel sources.
- Almost all coal, nuclear, geothermal, solar thermal electric power plants, waste incineration plants, as well as many natural gas power plants, are steam-electric.
- Natural gas is frequently combusted in gas turbines as well as boilers.
- The waste heat from a gas turbine can be used to raise steam, in a combined cycle plant that improves overall efficiency.
Diesel power plants:
- For generating electrical power, it is essential to rotate the rotor of an alternator by means of a prime mover.
- The prime mover can be driven by different methods.
- Using a diesel engine as the prime mover is one of the popular methods of generating power.
- When the prime mover of the alternators is a diesel engine, the power station is called a diesel power station.
- The mechanical power required for driving alternators comes from the combustion of diesel.
- As the diesel costs high, this type of power station is not suitable for producing power on a large scale in our country.
Hydropower plants:
- Hydroelectric power plants use water (i.e it uses the kinetic energy of water).
- Which rotates the turbine and electricity is produced.
Solar power plant:
Solar energy is utilized to convert into electrical energy
Nuclear power plant: Nuclear energy of radioactive fuel such as uranium is converted into electrical energy.
