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    Electrical power generation involves producing electricity from primary energy sources like fossil fuels in power plants. Coal-fired power plants produce electricity by burning coal in a boiler to create high-pressure steam, which spins a turbine connected to a generator. This process has been used since the late 18th century to power machines. Modern coal plants are large-scale operations that produce 500-1000 MW of power continuously. Coal is delivered by various methods like trains carrying 100 tons per rail car, with large plants requiring one such train daily.

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    Electrical power generation involves producing electricity from primary energy sources like fossil fuels in power plants. Coal-fired power plants produce electricity by burning coal in a boiler to create high-pressure steam, which spins a turbine connected to a generator. This process has been used since the late 18th century to power machines. Modern coal plants are large-scale operations that produce 500-1000 MW of power continuously. Coal is delivered by various methods like trains carrying 100 tons per rail car, with large plants requiring one such train daily.

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    Electrical power generation involves producing electricity from primary energy sources like fossil fuels in power plants. Coal-fired power plants produce electricity by burning coal in a boiler to create high-pressure steam, which spins a turbine connected to a generator. This process has been used since the late 18th century to power machines. Modern coal plants are large-scale operations that produce 500-1000 MW of power continuously. Coal is delivered by various methods like trains carrying 100 tons per rail car, with large plants requiring one such train daily.

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    Electrical power generation involves producing electricity from primary energy sources like fossil fuels in power plants. Coal-fired power plants produce electricity by burning coal in a boiler to create high-pressure steam, which spins a turbine connected to a generator. This process has been used since the late 18th century to power machines. Modern coal plants are large-scale operations that produce 500-1000 MW of power continuously. Coal is delivered by various methods like trains carrying 100 tons per rail car, with large plants requiring one such train daily.

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    Electrical Power Generation

    1 Introduction

    Power generation (in this context, electricity generation) is the


    process of generating electric power from sources of primary
    energy, such as fossil fuels.
    Electricity must be produced from other forms of energy in
    power plants (also called power stations).
    Electricity is most often generated at a power plant by
    electromagnetic generators, primarily driven by heat engines
    fueled by combustion or nuclear fission but also by other
    means such as the kinetic energy of flowing water and wind.
    Other energy sources include solar photovoltaics and
    geothermal power.
    The production of electric power by the combustion of coal is a
    mature and well established technology in the industrialized
    countries of the world.
    Put simply, coal-fired power plants produce electricity by
    burning coal in a boiler to produce steam which, under high
    pressure, flows into a turbine, which spins a generator to create
    electricity. The steam is then cooled, condensed back into
    water, and returned to the boiler to start the process over. Thus
    Coal Boiler Turbine Generator Electricity User

    In fact, steam engines powered by coal boilers had been in use


    since the end of the 17th century. A century later, the Scottish
    inventor James Watt saw the potential in coal power. Watt took
    a simple pumping system intended to remove water from mines
    and adapted it to run machines in cotton, textile, paper, and
    lumber mills throughout England during the late 18th century.
    (Referred to James G. Speight. Coal-Fired Power Generation
    Handbook)

    2 Electricity from Coal

    Coal is a reliable, mature technology, and is well understood by


    the traditional producers of electricity. However, not all kinds of
    coal types are applicable to the coal-fired power plants.
    Coal is characterized by many properties such as total calorific
    value, volatile portions, degree of coalification, and the
    chemical composition of the fly ash.

    These properties are available in advance by application of


    appropriate screening of the coal types by use of coal and fly
    ash properties (Speight, 2013, 2015).
    2.1 Conventional Power Plant

    A conventional coal-fired power plant produces electricity by


    burning coal in a steam generator, where it heats water to
    produce high-pressure and high-temperature steam. The steam
    flows through a series of steam turbines which spin an
    electrical generator to produce electricity. The exhaust steam
    from the turbines is cooled, condensed back into water, and
    returned to the steam generator to start the process over.
    Conventional coal-fired power plants are complex and custom
    designed on a large scale for continuous operation 24 hours
    per day and 365 days per year.

    Most plants built in the 1980s and early 1990s produce


    approximately 500 MW of power, while many of the modern
    plants produce approximately 1000 MW.

    2.1.1 Coal Transportation

    Coal is delivered by highway truck, rail, barge, or collier ship.


    Some plants are even built near coal mines and the coal is
    delivered from the mines by conveyors or multi hundred-ton
    trucks.
    A large coal train (unit train) composed of 100 to 110 rail cars –
    each car containing 100 tons of coal – may be more than one
    mile long.
    A large plant under full load requires at least one coal delivery
    this size every day.
    Plants may get as many as three to five trains a day, especially
    in peak season.
    Unloading a unit train takes approximately three hours.

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