This document discusses different types of electric power plants. It describes conventional power plants like nuclear, fossil fuel, combined cycle, hydroelectric plants. It also covers non-conventional renewable power plants such as wind, solar, geothermal, biomass. Wind power plants use the movement of wind to turn blades and generate electricity. Solar power plants use heat from the sun to create steam to turn turbines or convert sunlight directly to electricity via photovoltaic panels. The document also notes the environmental impacts of different power sources and discusses an emerging technology that uses wind turbines to extract water from air.

1. Electric power plants
Paola Caro Domínguez
Javier Borrallo Fernández
3ºA Curso 2011-2012

2. Index
9-18Non-conventional electric power plans
3-8Conventional electric power
plants 10.Types of non-conventional
electric power plants.
4.nuclear power plant
11.Wind power plants
5.Fossil fuel thermal power plant
12.Solar power plants
6.Combined cycle power plant
13.Geotheral power plants
7.Combined cycle power plant
work. 14.Biomass thermal power plant
8.Hydroelecctric power plant 16 -17.Enviromental impact
18.From air to water.

3. Conventional electric
power plants
They produce most of the energy that we use.
Types:
● Nuclear power plants.
● Fossil fuel thermal power plants.
● Hydroelectric power plants.

4. Nuclear power plants
●They break down the fuel and it produces large
amounts of heat this heat is used to produce a
high pressure stream that moves the
turbines, this turbines are connected to a
generator that produces electricity.
● Main fuel: Uranium.
● Advantages:high return on their energy
production.

5. Fossil fuel thermal power
plants
● In this type of power ● They usually burn
plants the water is coal but now is
heated to its boiling increasingly burning
point. It generates natural gasd
steam and this because it produces
steam is used to the least pollution.
move the turbine
that is connected to
the generator.

6. Combined cycle power plants
● This type of power ● First the gas is
plants generates mixed with the air
electrycity as a result and its burnt. It
of combinining two generates electricity.
Hot gases are
cycles, a cycle that transported to the
uses air and gas and recovery boiler
a conventional where they transfer
thermal cycle their energy to the
water in the second
cycle.

8. Hydroelectric power plants
● It uses the force of
water that is stored ● There are two types
in a dam. The water of hydraulic energy
moves a turbine and depending on the
produces kinetic destination of the
energy and then this water: gravity or
energy is pump.
transformed into
electricity

9. Non-conventional electric
power plants
● Advantages:They contaminate less than
conventional power plants,they use
renewable sources and reduce the energy
dependence.
● Disadvantages:they generate much less
energy

10. Types of non-conventional
electric power plants
● Wind power plants and wind farms
● Solar power pants
● Geothermal power plants
● Biomass Thermal power plants
● Ocean power plants

11. Wind power plants and wind
farms
● They use the movement of the wind,to move
blades which generate electricity thanks to a
transformation center at the bottom of the
tower where the blades are.
● Wind farms can only be installed in places with
good wind conditions
● A wind power plant produces between 1MW
and 10MW

12. Solar power plants
● They use the energy from the sun to produce
electricity
● Photovoltaic power
● Photo-thermal power plants
plants
● The solar radiations
● The heat generated are transform directly
by the solar into electricity by
radiations produces photovoltaic panels.
stream which moves ● The isolated power p
a rotor conected to a
● lants are smaller.
generator.

13. Geothermal power plants.
● They use the heats
found at the deep of the
Earth to produce
energy.
● These energy cn be
used:
● Directly:hot
water,heating and
industrial uses.
● Indirectly:the heat
generates stream which
produce electricity

14. Biomass thermal power
plants.
● Energy is produced
by burning organic
wastes,the steam
from the burning
moves a turbine
conected to a
generator.

15. Ocean power plants.
● These power plants
use the force of
waves and tides to
produce energy.
● They are in a
experimental fase so
they don't produce
too much energy.

18. From wind to water
 Eole water,the French research companyhas created a new
air rotor which can convert the whater steam in the air into
drinking water.
 The air enters into the turbine and goes into an electric
cooling compressor which condense the water in the air.
 One turbine can produce up to
1,000 liters of water every day

19. Fin
Paola Caro
Javier Borrallo
3ºA 2011-2012