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  2. Steam–electric power station - Wikipedia

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    The efficiency of a conventional steam–electric power plant, defined as energy produced by the plant divided by the heating value of the fuel consumed by it, is typically 33 to 48%, limited as all heat engines are by the laws of thermodynamics (See: Carnot cycle). The rest of the energy must leave the plant in the form of heat.

  3. Steam turbine - Wikipedia

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    Most central stations are fossil fuel power plants and nuclear power plants; some installations use geothermal steam, or use concentrated solar power (CSP) to create the steam. Steam turbines can also be used directly to drive large centrifugal pumps, such as feedwater pumps at a thermal power plant.

  4. Thermal power station - Wikipedia

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    Typical coal-based power plants operating at steam pressures of 170 bar and 570 °C run at efficiency of 35 to 38%, [6] with state-of-the-art fossil fuel plants at 46% efficiency. [7] Combined-cycle systems can reach higher values.

  5. Combined cycle power plant - Wikipedia

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    The turbine's hot exhaust powers a steam power plant (operating by the Rankine cycle). This is a combined cycle gas turbine (CCGT) plant. These achieve a best-of-class real (see below) thermal efficiency of around 64% in base-load operation. In contrast, a single cycle steam power plant is limited to efficiencies from 35 to 42%.

  6. Fossil fuel power station - Wikipedia

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    Diagram of a typical steam-cycle coal power plant (proceeding from left to right) Main article: Coal-fired power station Coal is the most abundant fossil fuel on the planet, and widely used as the source of energy in thermal power stations and is a relatively cheap fuel.

  7. Rankine cycle - Wikipedia

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    As of 2022, most supercritical power plants adopt a steam inlet pressure of 24.1 MPa and inlet temperature between 538°C and 566°C, which results in plant efficiency of 40%. However, if pressure is further increased to 31 MPa the power plant is referred to as ultra-supercritical, and one can increase the steam inlet temperature to 600°C ...

  8. Air preheater - Wikipedia

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    Schematic diagram of typical coal-fired power plant steam generator highlighting the air preheater (APH) location. An air preheater is any device designed to heat air before another process (for example, combustion in a boiler), with the primary objective of increasing the thermal efficiency of the process.

  9. Cogeneration - Wikipedia

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    Steam turbine CHP plants that use the heating system as the steam condenser for the steam turbine; Nuclear power plants, similar to other steam turbine power plants, can be fitted with extractions in the turbines to bleed partially expanded steam to a heating system. With a heating system temperature of 95 °C it is possible to extract about 10 ...