Power plant (disambiguation)
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- Biomass power plant [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Combined cycle power plant [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Combined cycle gas turbine power plant [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Conventional coal-fired power plant [r]: power plant that burns coal in a steam generator to produce high pressure steam, which goes to steam turbines that generate electricity. [e]
- Fossil fuel power plant [r]: An electrical power plant that converts the combustion heat energy derived from burning a fossil fuel, such as coal, natural gas or a petroleum fuel oil, into electricity. The combustion heat energy may be used to generate steam for a steam turbine that drives an electrical generator or it may be used directly in a gas turbine or internal combustion engine to drive an electric generator. [e]
- Gas turbine power plant [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Geothermal power plant [r]: An electrical power plant that extracts heat energy stored beneath Earth's surface and uses it to generate electricity. [e]
- Hydroelectric power plant [r]: An electrical power plant that generates electric power by converting the energy in falling or flowing water into electricity; water is directed through turbines which spin to generate electricity. [e]
- Integrated gasification combined cycle power plant [r]: 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]
- Natural gas-fired power plant [r]: An industrial plant which produces electricity by burning natural gas in a steam generator that heats water to produce high-pressure steam that flows through a series of steam turbines which spin an electrical generator to produce electricity. [e]
- Nuclear power plant [r]: A power plant, often electric, that uses the energy derived from controlled (non-explosive) nuclear reactions to generate electricity. Conventionally, nuclear power plants used the heat energy derived from nuclear fission to generate steam, which in turn generates electric power. [e]
- Oil-fired power plant [r]: An industrial plant which produces electricity by burning fuel oil in a steam generator that heats water to produce high-pressure steam that flows through a series of steam turbines which spin an electrical generator to produce electricity. [e]
- Solar power plant [r]: An electrical power plant that generates electricity directly from sunlight either by using photovoltaics or by focusing solar radiation into a concentrated beam of heat that is used to generate steam for conversion into electric power. [e]
- Thermal power plant [r]: An electric power plant in which all of the electricity is produced by using a heat source to generate steam that drives a steam turbine which rotates an electrical generator. [e]
- Tidal power plant [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Wind power plant [r]: An electric power plant that converts air movement (wind) into a useful form of energy by using wind turbines to generate electricity. [e]