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Power reactors can be heterogeneous or homogeneous. A heterogeneous power reactor has a large number of fuel rods with the coolant circulating around them and carrying ..
Fuels are any material that store potential energy in forms, which upon burning in oxygen liberates heat energy. Calorific value of fuel is the total quantity of heat ..
The boiler system comprises a feed-water system, steam system, and fuel system. The feed-water system supplies treated water to the boiler and regulate it automatically ..
Fire Tube boiler is the simplest form of the internal furnace, vertical fire tube boiler. Fire tube boilers are a portable boiler and it requires a small ..
A schematic diagram of a steam power plant is shown in figure 1. In a simple steam power plant, at the top of the boiler high-pressure superheated steam leaves the steam ..
Schmidt-Hartmann boiler working operation is similar to an electric transformer. Two pressures are used to effect an interchange of energy. In the primary circuit, ..
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A nuclear power plant is a thermal power station that generates electricity using heat from nuclear reactions. Nuclear reactions take place within a nuclear ..
A simple open cycle gas turbine consists of a compressor, combustion chamber and a turbine as shown in the below figure. The compressor takes in ambient ..
Comparison Between Closed Cycle Gas Turbine and Open Cycle Gas Turbine can be done in 11 different criterias. Those 11 criterias are cycle of operation, working ..
With use of Benson boiler the main difficulties experienced in the La Mont boiler, the formation and attachment of bubbles on the inner surfaces of the heating ..
The first gas-cooled reactors with carbon dioxide (CO2) gas as coolant at a pressure of 16 bar and graphite as moderator were developed in Britain. The fuel used ..
Steam condenser is an equipment in which the exhaust steam from the steam turbine is condensed by means of coolant (water). Thermal efficiency of a closed ..
In jet condensers the exhaust steam and cooling water come in direct contact with each other whereas as in surface condensers they don’t mix with each ..