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Do power plants convert water into steam in 'batches' or at a continuous rate?
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Date: May 20th, 2024 9:11 PM Author: Bespoke clown When they burn coal or when the rods are inserted into the chamber at a nuclear plant to induce fission heat energy. Does the heat generated by either process heat a single 'tank' of water down to high pressure steam, before releasing that steam and filling up with a new batch of water? Or is there just a continuous stream of water flowing into the chambers receiving heat energy that just get continuously converted into steam and released? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5530808&forum_id=2#47678244) |
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Date: May 20th, 2024 9:21 PM Author: marvelous state Continuous. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5530808&forum_id=2#47678286) |
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Date: May 21st, 2024 10:24 AM Author: Bespoke clown (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5530808&forum_id=2#47679433) |
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Date: May 21st, 2024 10:28 AM Author: Tripping outnumbered nursing home Everything allegedly continuous is still done by batch if you slice the time intervals thin enough. Scientists HATE when you point that out. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5530808&forum_id=2#47679448) |
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Date: May 23rd, 2024 10:43 AM Author: charcoal trip area windowlicker (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5530808&forum_id=2#47685737) |
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Date: May 21st, 2024 3:16 PM Author: Bespoke clown Follow up: if electric demands increase all of a sudden, do they add more coal into the furnace and increase that flow of that continuous flow of water to generate more power? Or do they more intensely evaporate the same quantity of water? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5530808&forum_id=2#47680397) |
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Date: May 21st, 2024 3:33 PM Author: cocky hominid crotch all power generators have an point where they operate at optimal efficiency. different types of coal power generators have different wiggle-room in being able to vary the output. large plants will usually have multiple generators that they always operate optimally, and just vary the number of generators operating based on demand. because of advances in power storage there is less of a need for variable load flow though. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5530808&forum_id=2#47680436) |
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Date: May 21st, 2024 3:45 PM Author: galvanic national security agency you have to add coal to increase the temp, then, on a multi-cylinder steam engine that's generating electricity with it's driveshaft it has progressively smaller cylinders (generally, 3) to extract energy as the pressure declines (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5530808&forum_id=2#47680500) |
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Date: May 21st, 2024 3:46 PM Author: navy elite idiot (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5530808&forum_id=2#47680501) |
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Date: May 21st, 2024 7:08 PM Author: navy elite idiot It's a closed-loop system, for the most part. Water comes into the plant from the outside (usually from a river), where it's then treated, purified, super-heated, and pushed through a turbine to create electricity. On the other side of the turbine, the water is condensed and fed back into the system to be treated, purified, and super-heated once again. Most plants have multiple water treatment systems, and the amount of condensate passing through is insane: 16" carbon steel pipes pushing hundreds of gallons per minute at high pressure. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5530808&forum_id=2#47681253) |
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Date: May 23rd, 2024 10:40 AM Author: Bespoke clown how do they pressurize it? or does that happen when they heat the water to vaporize? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5530808&forum_id=2#47685729) |
Date: May 20th, 2024 9:23 PM Author: big autistic center They super-heat the water under pressure such that when the pressure drops it instantly becums steam
(probably; this is how I'd do it) |
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Date: May 21st, 2024 11:12 AM Author: Bespoke clown that doesn't in any way address what im asking (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5530808&forum_id=2#47679590) |
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Date: May 21st, 2024 1:36 PM Author: big autistic center Continuous (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5530808&forum_id=2#47680102) |
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Date: May 21st, 2024 6:54 PM Author: navy elite idiot heating condensate (water) in an enclosed space will cause the pressure to increase. they use super-heated (rather than saturated) steam because condensation can wreak havoc on turbines over time through steam erosion. Additionally, anything but ultra-pure condensate with low conductivity will cause even bigger problems, like boiler scale (which is almost impossible to remove), so you have to treat the condensate before it goes to the boiler to remove the undesirable stuff from it. You also want low conductivity condensate to mitigate the formation of large, unstable steam bubbles (steam bubbles won't burst as readily in water with high conductivity, leading to stability issues)
here's an example of a system that cleans condensate: https://i.imgur.com/w44atfI.png (and the control system for it: https://i.imgur.com/ZL1f3dh.png )
note the amount of condensate that each vessel can handle: 5,300 gallons per minute at 410 psig (~424.7 psia). |
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Date: May 21st, 2024 10:25 AM Author: Motley casino telephone (Terrence Howard) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5530808&forum_id=2#47679435) |
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Date: May 23rd, 2024 10:42 AM Author: charcoal trip area windowlicker (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5530808&forum_id=2#47685735) |
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Date: May 21st, 2024 10:32 AM Author: Sable Library Stop caring about Engineering. Just stop. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5530808&forum_id=2#47679464) |
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Date: May 21st, 2024 10:33 AM Author: unhinged fantasy-prone forum It has to be in discrete packages, right? For greater control? Like a Traeger? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5530808&forum_id=2#47679467) |
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Date: May 21st, 2024 3:37 PM Author: Plum community account newt (guy proudly showing off the reservoir chamber in his kitchen sink - the salesman told it allowed for maximum control in all filling operations, refill time is kind of a pain in the ass though) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5530808&forum_id=2#47680455) |
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Date: May 21st, 2024 6:55 PM Author: unhinged fantasy-prone forum Pipe down Swedish Asian chef (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5530808&forum_id=2#47681148) |
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Date: May 21st, 2024 6:57 PM Author: Haunting dilemma you know, i have always wondered if power plants convert water into steam in 'batches' or at a continuous rate, and last night woke up in a sweat about it. ps: really like it here (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5530808&forum_id=2#47681162) |