This document discusses various types of electric power plants including conventional power plants like nuclear, fossil fuel, and hydroelectric plants as well as non-conventional plants such as wind, solar, geothermal, biomass, and ocean power plants. It outlines the basic functioning of each type of plant and lists the advantages and disadvantages.

1. ELECTRIC POWER PLANTS
Adrián Mendoza Zárate
Ramón Barrabés Parra
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2. Index
Conventional Power Plants
-Nuclear Power Plants
-Fossil Fuel Power Plants
-Hydroelectric Power Plants
Non-conventional Power Plants
-Wind Power Plants and Wind Farms
-Solar Power Plants
Photo-Thermal Power Plants
Photovoltaic Power Plant
-Geothermal Power Plant
-Biomass Thermal Power Plants
-Ocean Power Plant

3. CONVENTIONAL POWER
PLANTS:
NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS
A nuclear plant is an industrial facility used for generating
electricity from nuclear energy. Characterized by the use of
nuclear fuel such as uranium which provides heat by nuclear
reaction which in turn is used through a thermodynamic cycle to
produce movement of alternators which transform the
mechanical work into electric energy. These plants consist of
one or more reactors.

4. ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES
Advantages:
-low CO2 emissions
Disadvantages:
-Risk of radiactive emissions
-Danger of nuclear disaster
-Radiactive waste

5. FOSSIL FUELS POWER PLANT
A fossil-fuel power station is a type of power station
that burns fossil fuels such as coal, natural gas or
petroleum to produce electricity.
A this type of power plants, water is heated in a
boiler by the heat generated from the combustion
of a fossil fuels.

6. ADVANTAGES AND
DISADVANTAGES
ADVANTAGES:
-Great capacity and
high performances
DISADVANTAGES:
-Respiratory diseases
-Increases the
greenhouse effect

7. HYDROELECTRIC POWER
PLANTS
This type of power plant uses the potential
energy provided by the height of the stored
water in a dam, converting it into kinetic energy.
This energy moves the blades of the turbine

8. ADVANTAGES AND
DISADVANTAGES
Advantages:
-They don't require fuel, they
use a renewable form of
energy
12 Disadvantages:
10
8 -Risk of disaster if a dam
6
4
breaks
2
-Risk of the disappearance of
0
flora and fauna

9. NON-CONVETIONAL POWER
PLANTS: WIND POWER PLANTS
& WIND FARMS
These power plants use the kinetic energy of the
wind to move the blades of a rotor at the top of a
tower; this is referred to as the wind turbine.
Winds farms are clean form of generating electricity.
However, they can only be installed in places with
appropriate wind conditions.

10. ADVANTAGES AND
DISADVANTAGES
Advantages:
-Clean
-Possible domestic
production
Disadvantages:
-Discontinous and
randoom
-Low levels of
performances

11. SOLAR POWER PLANTS
Photo-thermal power Photovoltaic power
plants: plants:
The heat generated by Solar radiation is
solar radiation produces transformed directly
steam that is used to into electricity by
move the rotors in the panels of photovoltaic
generator. cells.

12. ADVANTAGES AND
DISADVANTAGES OF THERMAL
POWER PLANTS
Advantages:
-Don't pollute
-Low maintenance
Disadvantages:
-High installation costs
-The Sun does not shine
on all sides of the earth

13. ADVANTAGES AND
DISADVANTAGES OF
PHOTOVOLTAIC POWER PLANTS
Advantages:
-Domestic production
Disadvantages:
-They pollute in the
contruction
-It has a strong visual
impact

14. GEOTHERMAL POWER PLANT
Use the heat found at deep levels in the earth.
This heat may reach the surface in the form of
steam, gases or hot water.
Geothermal energy may be used directly; for hot
water and heating, and indirectly; the heat
generates steam, which produces electricity.

15. ADVANTAGES AND
DISADVANTAGES
Advantages:
-Job creation and
economic benefits
Disadvantages:
-May release harmful
gases

16. BIOMASS THERMAL POWER
PLANTS
Consists of all organic compounds that are
produced through natural processes. They may
come from the following sources:
-Forestry and agricultural waste
-Specific crops, such as sunflowers
-Waste from agri-food industries
This type of fuel is burnt at biomass power plants

17. ADVANTAGES AND
DISADVANTAGES
Advantages:
-Reuses forestry and
household waste
Disadvantages:
-Excessive exploitation of
natural resources
-Increases the greenhouse
effects

18. OCEAN POWER PLANTS
These power plants use the energy from the seas
and the oceans. The concept is to use three
types of energy from the sea:
-The mechanical energy from the tides
-The mechanical energy from the waves
-The energy from the ocean's thermal gradient

19. ADVANTAGES AND
DISADVANTAGES
Advantages:
-Clean and quiet
Advantages:
-It leads to the
displacement of wild life
habitats