Power plants

Student: Lazari Vasile

Grupa:EN-0117
 Introduction
Electricity is produced on an
industrial scale in installations
called power plants.

A power plant is a set of buildings,

machines, appliances, instruments
and pipes, which are used to
produce electricity using electric
generators or by direct conversion
of solar energy.

Power plants are classified

according to the energy time they
convert into electricity
 Clasification
1) Power Plants

2) Nuclear power plants

3) Geothermal Power Plant

4) Hydropower

5) Solar power plants

 Thermal Energy
Thermal energy is transformed into
thermal power plants, resulting from
the combustion of fuels. In Romania,
thermal energy is produced in a
proportion of approx. 77% of thermal
power plants, which use leachate, oil
and gas.
The Bełchatów Power Plant is a
lignite thermal power plant with an
installed capacity of 5,023 MW,
located near Belchatow, Poland. It is
the largest thermal power plant in
Europe and the second in the world
in terms of installed capacity. It
produces 27-28 TWh of electricity
per year, almost 20% of Poland's
electricity.
The advantage of thermal power
plants is that a large amount of
energy is produced and by burning
fuels a large amount of CO2 is
released which pollutes the
atmosphere.
 Nuclear energy
Nuclear power plays an important
role in the production of
electricity, on an equal footing with
that produced in hydropower
plants. At European level, about
33% of electricity is produced in
nuclear power plants (for example
in France nuclear energy is the
basis of about 75% of electricity
production).
The advantage of nuclear power
plants is that a very large amount
of electricity is produced, but the
risk of it failing is a major one, as it
uses nuclear energy that emits a
dangerous amount of radiation.
The Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in
Japan has a capacity of over 8,200
megawatts, making it the largest
nuclear power plant in the world.
  Hydropower
The hydropower plant is the power
plant used to transform the
mechanical energy produced by
water into electricity.

In my opinion, the best method of

transforming mechanical energy
into electricity in which a huge
amount of electricity is produced,
the disadvantage would be the
equally high costs for construction.

The largest Iron Gates I

hydropower plant, with an
installed capacity of 1080 MW.
 Conclusion
Over time it has been discovered
that a variety of energies can be
converted by different types of
power plants into electricity. I tried
to make a short classification and
point out to each the advantages
and disadvantages, some are
ecological but inefficient, others
are effective but quite dangerous
and others are very efficient but
just as expensive.