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The process of Coal Energy

The process to recieve the energy from coal startes with 15,000 tons of coal gets transportated to the plant (by train or barge). That is enough to keep it running for a couple of hours. A machine called a sparater puts the coal on a quarter mile long conveyor belt and brings the coal into the plant. Once inside the plant, 30 hours worth of coal is stored into bunkers. From the bunkers, they travel to the feeders to be measured and moved to the pulverizer. Each genterating unit has 16 coal feeters and 8 pulverizers. Coal enters the pulverizers and spins in a large drum and hundreds of steel balls grinds the coal into powder. The fine powder then goes to the boiler. Large fans blow the powder into the boiler. Inside the boiler is filled with high quality water and the coal powder ignites. Then with intense heat, it creates the water into hot dry steam (1,000 degrees ferinheight). Then the steam goes to the 1st turbine. The steam expandes between layers of turbine blades. Then the steam goes back to the furnice to go to the 2nd turbine. The steam turns the turbine 3,600 revolutions per min. giveing power to the generator. The generator continuously creates an electrical charge for 34,000,400,081 amps (18,000 volts). From, here the electrictity leaves the plant on power lines to the costumers.

10 reasons why coal is a good energy source:

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Cost of Energy

Fact #1

One fact about coal is it takes about 1,000,000 years to form. Coal is made from dead plants and trees that have been barrier over dirt for many years. The coal becomes a solid when the layers of dirt over it compress it into a solid.

How Coal Was Formed

Coal Plant Diagram