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Intro to Power, Part 2: Steam Turbine Power Plants

by Kevin C. on Jan 8, 2009

This is Part 2 of our grand launching of Engineerography Blog. If you haven’t checked out Part 1 already, I recommend that you do. I talked about the fundamentals to electricity generation there.
The simplest form of a steam turbine power plant consists of a boiler and a turbine driving an electric generator. Typically, the axis of [...]