Académique Documents
Professionnel Documents
Culture Documents
Power System
Power system mainly contains three parts namely:
1. Power Generation
2. Power Transmission
3. Power Distribution.
Generation means how to generate electricity from
2. Hydro power
3. Nuclear power
Non-Conventional Sources
1. Wind power 2. Solar power 3. Biomass power 4. Tidal wave energy 5. Geo Thermal Energy
slightly radioactive. The atoms produced when uranium breaks apart are strongly
radioactive. Today, fission only happens in nuclear reactors. In nuclear reactors, fission only happens when the reactors parts are arranged properly. Nuclear power plants are usually near water to remove the heat the reactor
Wind power:
Wind power is the conversion of wind energy into a useful form of energy, such as using wind turbines to make electrical power. The wind has kinetic energy (movement energy) which is changed into
mechanical energy by the blades on the turbine. The turbine then turns a
generator which creates electrical energy (voltage). The turbine is usually connected by a gearbox to help control the speed it turns the generator at.
Wind power:
Wind power, as an alternative to fossil fuels, is plentiful, renewable, widely distributed, clean, produces no greenhouse gas emissions during operation and uses little land.
Wind Farm group of wind turbines in the same location used to produce
electric power. A large wind farm may consist of several hundred individual wind turbines, and cover an extended area of hundreds of square miles.
Solar power:
Solar power is the conversion of sunlight into electricity, either directly photovoltaic (PV), or indirectly using concentrated solar power (CS). Concentrated solar power systems use lenses or mirrors and tracking systems using
Solar power:
Solar power is the conversion of sunlight into electricity, either directly photovoltaic (PV), or indirectly using concentrated solar power (CS). Solar Cells produce direct current (DC) power which fluctuates with the using
Wood remains the largest biomass energy sources today. Examples include forest
residues, yard clippings, wood chips and even municipal solid waste.
Although not yet widely used, tidal power has potential for future electricity
generation. Tides are more predictable than wind energy and solar power. Among sources of renewable energy, tidal power has traditionally suffered from relatively high cost and limited availability of sites with sufficiently high tidal ranges or flow velocities, thus constricting its total availability.
variation and higher tidal current velocities can dramatically increase the
potential of a site for tidal electricity generation. Tidal stream generators (or TSGs) make use of the kinetic energy of moving water to power turbines, in a similar way to wind turbines. Because the Earth's tides are ultimately due to gravitational interaction with the Moon and Sun and the Earth's rotation, tidal power is practically inexhaustible and classified as a renewable energy resource.
Geo-Thermal Power:
Geothermal energy is thermal energy generated and stored in the Earth.