How does a Thermal power plant work? 

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As the Plant Manager of a 1200 MW coal powered plant in the Midwest, I applaud your clear and concise explanation of the basic operations of a generic power unit. Well done! BTW, I also hold three engineering degrees: BS in Chem E, MS in ME, and MS in NAME. To those of you still in academia: never stop learning!!

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Many years ago as a kid I got to go around a coal fired power station, it was probably one of the best days out I've ever had. Shame they don't see to do visits much any more. It's amazing to see the engineering marvels that we've come up with. Great video BTW.

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I'm working currently in a construction of a combined cicle thermal power plant. I've found this video amazing. It absolutely gave me new insights. Thank you very much.

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I have watched this video several times since it came out. It has been quite helpful with my power engineering courses. Helping place where everything goes in the system on a larger scale makes many of the details make more sense.

This is very useful for beginner and expert level persons. Great work for someone to remember once the7 minutes of this video is completed,ensure to have a pen and paper to note down the concepts.

Thank you, great job! I wish my thermo professor showed me something similar to this.

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Very well explained, rich information, rich graphics.

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Ahh, the good ol' Rankine cycle. I've studied the theory but haven't really had the chance to visualize the actual, real world method. Great video as always!

Perfect work! really amazing demo. Can you make explaining videos of how gravitational power plants work?

you people are the best i was snatching my hair since this morning to understand what was taught by my professor at college with chalk and board finally i got to see and understand what he was talking this whole day.... very very helpful.

It really helped me to get a clear concept of the basic mechanism . Thanks

It was awesome, Really Helpful!!!

Good video. The energy efficiency of 20~25% in thermal power plant increases to 40~45% through the engineering process of Super heating, Re-heating, and Feed water heating

I'm a union welder and we always build this type of power plant's. HRSG, Gas fire power plant and few solar power plants.It's amazing how all of this work, few years back I was part of start-up crew on Genesis Solar Plant and I got to learned how the system works, from the solar field were HTF fluid runs through the s.s pipe all the way to the superheaters,economizer,steam drum, condensate system,turbine deck and much more. Thank you for posting this videos for everyone to learn.

This was more complicated than I thought. Great video.

gd job... clean explanation....

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Very nice video, brief but cover important aspects of a steam power plant. Highly recommended for people who wants to know the fundamentals of steam power plant.

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Thank you very much. Very clear and interesting video! It gave me a lot of reality on power plant that I am studying at university.

Thanks for the excellent detailed video. Helped me understand power plants so I didn't sound like a dummy in my latest video "going inside of a decommissioned power plant and inside of the turbine"

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I'm working at a Coal Thermal power plant, your video very helpful for me, thankyou so much !

Im not an engineer or going to be an engineer, but damn this is so interesting

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This is awesome....like in our class they taught us this but in this much detail NOPE 👍. Keep up the good work

Great work. Excellent visuals, animations and narration to explain the different components of a thermal power plant. As a professional in this industry for over 25 years I would highly recommend this video for its content for those wishing to learn the basics of thermal power plants. I encourage you to expand this further to explain the nuances of each of the components in the future episodes. I am willing to provide my help if you need towards this effort.

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please make more. Thanks for the hard work you put into this video.

A perfect study for learners. Helpful video Thank you sir ❤❤

its really helpful.too for me...may i know what is the software that you used to prepare this kind of video ? :) thank you.

i want to make highly efficient power plant whose efficienty become appropriate to carnot's

Fantastic animation as of today on boilers. keep it up.

this was just great...thank u for working so hard so that a bunch of engineers can have a far better understanding :)

It needs some background knowledge of thermal dynamic to understand how the efficiency is gained

So it's basically like a giant air conditioning system except it generates heat.

Amazingly explained.. really understood every point and over all working of the plant😍.. thank you

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why we condense steam??? why we can not use steam again without changing it into liquid??? if someone have some idea then please reply to comment

why not put generator between the condenser and the cooling fluid?

You are doing an exellant work. as per my knowledge and experience,I have never seen any college which teaches engineering in this manner.They just project the ppt and read the words typed in the ppt during teaching.

Have you heard of a “magma”powered thermal power plant?

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Best explained video for engineers 👍👍 Each and every component is covered too good ..

Thank you so much for these videos.

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like always, very helpful and interesting. the explanation is so clear and simple that easily could be understood. thank you very much for your informative videos. remarkable, excellent, fascinating.

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this kind of project in end it just wanna high pressure to push generator rotation and spin for sudden speed than it generating a energy electricity so there are still lot of theory can made this power plant without any coal fire heatwave to destructure on earth blue planet i don't have any great idea for suitable simply replacing this coal fire power plant but i do know one day from now not reach to 50 year there will be new thing to replace coal, nuclear power plant as our current best resources that is hydro and wind power LOL

why steam is condensed?????

great work you explain all major things in 7 min which we are unable to understand in hours of lec in univrsities.

Thank you, this is so helpful

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Thanks for such a nice video to understand steam power plant in such a easy way.

I have it in STD 10th any one

Hi, I'm using Google Translate, because I'm Brazilian. Why do thermoelectric plants use only steam to generate electricity ?, I think it can increase efficiency in !? My proposal to increase the efficiency of thermoelectric plants: In my view, the thermoelectric plants are failing to take advantage of the moment when the steam becomes water .. they could simply let the steam rise in contact with some metal, making water and letting the water go down as if it were in a waterfall, from there, rotate the turbines, taking advantage of this movement of water descent, then they could continue transforming the water that is already in the base, into steam and rotate turbines again ... in my opinion this would greatly increase the efficiency of the thermoelectric plants in generating energy electrical. Operation of the thermoelectric plant according to my friend Tibulace from Yahoo and this video: "The water follows a cycle in the steam thermoelectric: It is heated, it turns into steam under high pressure. This steam moves the steam turbines, which rotate the alternators, which produce electricity. Then the exhaust steam from the turbines goes to the condenser, where it transforms back into liquid water. Then it is injected into the boilers, to transform into water vapor and continue the cycle. In this way, the water is reused. The energy it contains, when it condenses and turns into hot water, it is also partially recovered. " In the current mode of operation, they even use electricity using a condenser to turn the steam into water ... waste. In the way I mention, the steam would be transformed in a natural way into water and the water would be used because it has potential gravitational force, making the turbines rotate using the technique of a small hydroelectric plant. Greetings from Brazil!

Outstanding demo. really helpful for all engineer's

Thanks for great video how thermal power plant works. This helps me a lot.

Well, if you consider 30% being efficient, then yeah, power plants are VERY efficient. Some even go to 40%! You should do more renewable energy sources.

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The best explanation. Great job Thank you

I'm getting hired to build these heat transfer systems. Great video to see what I'm building in action

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fundastic ...fully clear explanation in a animated way

Thank u for cleared my all doubts

Great video for conceptualizing ideas covered in thermodynamics

Good explained with impressive animative graphics.

very intersting vid.. thank you for easing 3 hours lecture

Nobody can teach like u....Animation is too good for understanding of turbine..nice carry on

Great explaination! I am happy to se the connection between my school physics and reality.

Best Animation....very Easy 2 undrstnd..... Thank u.....

This video is very helpful for students... Thank You

Great work for easy understanding Plz make the videos for power system components similar to your electrical machines work Thank you

Great work, thanks!

Really very helpful video great graphics , speaking skills & CONCEPT CLEARITY

This is a great explanation for the steam power plant, thank you for your effort

Nice animation and well explained...Very sophisticated and complicated way of making electricity.

Such a beautiful explanation!