Centrals in Gran Canaria #2

The combined cycle plant consists of two gas turbines and one steam interconnected. It is ready to operate in open cycle , ie exclusively using gas turbines . Uses seawater for cooling open and meets all environmental requirements , both in the European and Spanish legislation circuit. In 1998 , the plant received the certificate of AENOR ISO 14001 environmental management . In 2002 , the plant obtained EMAS environmental certification , which is based on the EMAS Regulation of the European Union.

Barranco de Tirajana power station has two groups of fuel oil , two gas turbine and combined cycle two groups in the town of San Bartolome de Tirajana , in the southeast of the island of Gran Canaria.Currently it has an output of 80 MW. The Steam Room 2 group , also 80 MW , became operational in 1996. Both use fuel oil of low sulfur content fuel.

Centrals in Gran Canaria

Jinámar's power plant is a power plant with five sets of fuel oil , where three of which are used to purify sea water. In turn, it has three gas turbines and diesel five groups . It is situated in the municipality of Las Palmas .The first gas turbine group ( diesel used as fuel ) was connected to the network in 1981. Its power is 23.45 MW. In 1989 , they joined the generation park central two other groups of 37.5 MW. The first three groups diesel joined the central between 1973 and 1974. Each of them has a power of 12 MW. In 1990 went into production two diesel groups of 24 MW each 1.3 In 2005 , the center received from the hand of AENOR environmental management certificate ISO 14001 , certifying that its activities are conducted in a way that respects the environment.

Enviroment impact

 All energy sources have some impact on our environment. Fossil fuels — coal, oil, and natural gas  do substantially more harm than renewable energy sources by most measures, including air and water pollution, damage to public health, wildlife and habitat loss, water use, land use, and global warming emissions.


Wind Power



Harnessing power from the wind is one of the cleanest and most sustainable ways to generate electricity as it produces no toxic pollution or global warming emissions. Wind is also abundant, inexhaustible, and affordable, which makes it a viable and large-scale alternative to fossil fuels.

Despite its vast potential, there are a variety of environmental impacts associated with wind power generation that should be recognized and mitigated

Solar Power

Like wind power, the sun provides a tremendous resource for generating clean and sustainable electricity.

The environmental impacts associated with solar power can include land use and habitat loss, water use, and the use of hazardous materials in manufacturing, though the types of impacts vary greatly depending on the scale of the system and the technology used — photovoltaic (PV) solar cells or concentrating solar thermal plants (CSP).

Biomass for Electricity

Biomass power plants share some similarities with fossil fuel power plants: both involve the combustion of a feedstock to generate electricity. Thus, biomass plants raise similar, but not identical, concerns about air emissions and water use as fossil fuel plants. However, the feedstock of biomass plants can be sustainable produced, while fossil fuels are non-renewable.

Sources of biomass resources for producing electricity are diverse; including energy crops (like switchgrass), agricultural waste, manure, forest products and waste, and urban waste. Both the type of feedstock and the manner in which it is developed and harvested significantly affect land use and life-cycle global warming emissions impacts of producing power from biomass.

Hydroelectric Power

Hydroelectric power includes both massive hydroelectric dams and small run-of-the-river plants. Large-scale hydroelectric dams continue to be built in many parts of the world (including China and Brazil), but it is unlikely that new facilities will be added to the existing U.S. fleet in the future.

Instead, the future of hydroelectric power in the United States will likely involve increased capacity at current dams and new run-of-the-river projects. There are environmental impacts at both types of plants.

Electrical power plants non-conventional

The environmental problems caused by conventional power plants have led to the creation and development of non-conventional or alternative.

Wind farms use the kinetic energy of the wind to move the blades of a rotor at the top of a tower.

Solar power plants use the Sun's energy. There are two types: Photo-thermal are thermal power plants in which steam is produced by solar radiation. While photovoltaic power plants transform solar radiation directly into a electricity using panels.

Biomass: Consists of all organic comòunds that are produced trhought natural process.

Geothermal power plants: Use the heat found at deep layers in the Earth, whle ocean power plants use he energy from the oceans and seas; waves or thermal gradient

                             

Electrical power plants Conventional

Thermal power plants: Water is heated in a boiler by the heat generated from the combustion of a fossil fuel ( natural gas, coal or petroleum)

Combined cycle power plants: Obtain electricity as the result of two combined cycles; a cycle that uses air and gas and a conventional thermal cycle.

Nuclear power plants: Use a nuclear fission reactor that produces hat to generate the pressurised steam needed to mobe the turbine rotor.

Hydroelectric power plants: Use it by the height of the water stored in a dam, converting it into kinetic energy.This energy moves the blades of the turbine. There are two types: gravity and pump

Electric Power Plants

A power plant or a power generating station, is basically an industrial location that is utilized for the generation and distribution of electric power in mass scale, usually in the order of several 1000 Watts. These are generally located at the sub-urban regions or several kilometers away from the cities or the load centers, because of its requisites like huge land and water demand, along with several operating constraints like the waste disposal etc. For this reason, a power generating station has to not only take care of efficient generation but also the fact that the power is transmitted efficiently over the entire distance. And that’s why, the transformer switch yard to regulate transmission voltage also becomes an integral part of the power plant.At the center of it, however, nearly all power generating stations has an A.C. generator or an alternator, which is basically a rotating machine that is equipped to convert energy from the mechanical domain (rotating turbine) into electrical domain by creating relative motion between a magnetic field and the conductors. The energy source harnessed to turn the generator shaft varies widely, and is chiefly dependent on the type of fuel used.

Electrical Energy Transmission

The process of getting electricity to consumer or to our homes, offices and industries is actually by Generation, Transmission and Distribution of Electricity. Electricity generation, which is the first process in the delivery of electricity to consumer is the process of generating electric power from other sources of primary energy. This primary energy can be water, gas, sun, steam, wind, fossil, waste etc. Electricity is most often generated at a power station by electromechanical generators, primarily driven by heat engines fueled by chemical combustion or nuclear fission but also by other means such as the kinetic energy of flowing water and wind.

  

Electrical Energy Generation

Electricity generation is the process of generating electric power from other sources of primary energy. His basic method is still used today: electricity is generated by the movement of a loop of wire, or disc of copper between the poles of a magnet. For electric utilities, it is the first process in the delivery of electricity to consumers. The other processes, electricity transmission, distribution, and electrical power storage and recovery using pumped-storage methods are normally carried out by the electric power industry. Electricity is most often generated at a power station by electromechanical generators, primarily driven by heat engines fueled by chemical 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 and electrochemical batteries.

Electrical Energy Storage

Electrical energy storage technologies for stationary applications are reviewed. Particular attention is paid to pumped hydroelectric storage, compressed air energy storage, battery, flow battery, fuel cell, solar fuel, superconducting magnetic energy storage, flywheel, capacitor/supercapacitor, and thermal energy storage. Comparison is made among these technologies in terms of technical characteristics, applications and deployment status.

Electrical Energy

Energy is the ability to do work, where work is done when a force moves an object. We need and we use energy every day, and energy is available in all different forms. Electrical energy is energy that's stored in charged particles within an electric field. Electric fields are simply areas surrounding a charged particle. In other words, charged particles create electric fields that exert force on other charged particles within the field. The electric field applies the force to the charged particle, causing it to move - in other words, do work
          


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Energy Sources

1. Solar Energy
Solar power harvests the energy of the sun through using collector panels to create conditions that can then be turned into a kind of power. Large solar panel fields are often used in desert to gather enough power to charge small substations, and many homes use solar systems to provide for hot water, cooling and supplement their electricity. The issue with solar is that while there is plentiful amounts of sun available, only certain geographical ranges of the world get enough of the direct power of the sun for long enough to generate usable power from this source.


2. Wind EnergyWind power is becoming more and more common. The new innovations that are allowing wind farms to appear are making them a more common sight. By using large turbines to take available wind as the power to turn, the turbine can then turn a generator to produce electricity. While this seemed like an ideal solution to many, the reality of the wind farms is starting to reveal an unforeseen ecological impact that may not make it an ideal choice.

3. Geothermal Energy

Geothermal energy is the energy that is produced from beneath the earth. It is clean, sustainable and environment friendly. High temperatures are produced continuously inside the earth’s crust by the slow delay of radioactive particles. Hot rocks present below the earth heats up the water that produces steam. The steam is then captured that helps to move turbines. The rotating turbines then power the generators. The largest group of geothermal power plants in the world is located at The Geysers, a geothermal field in California, United States.


4. Hydrogen Energy

Hydrogen is available with water(H2O) and is most common element available on earth. Water contains two-thirds of hydrogen and can be found in combination with other elements. Once it is separated, it can be used as a fuel for generating electricity. Hydrogen is a tremendous source of energy and can be used as a source of fuel to power ships, vehicles, homes, industries and rockets. It is completely renewable, can be produced on demand and does not leave any toxic emissions in the atmosphere.



5. Tidal Energy

Tidal energy uses rise and fall of tides to convert kinetic energy of incoming and outgoing tides into electrical energy. The generation of energy through tidal power is mostly prevalent in coastal areas. Huge investment and limited availability of sites are few of the drawbacks of tidal energy. When there is increased height of water levels in the ocean, tides are produced which rush back and forth in the ocean. Tidal energy is one of the renewable source of energy and produce large energy even when the tides are at low speed.

What´s the energy?

Energy is a property of objects and systems of objects to act against a force (to do work), explored in branches of physics such as thermodynamics. Popularly the term is most often used in the context of energy as a public technology: energy resources, their consumption, development, depletion, and conservation.