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Energy and its transformation (Non-conventional electric power plant…
Energy and its transformation
Energy sources
Household uses
Heating systems
Electrical appliance
Hot water systems
Industrial uses
The operating of factories and companies
Construction
Agriculture
Energy sources are natural resources from which we obtain different forms of energy that can be transformed for a specific use
We can classify them as:
By availability in nature and capacity for regeneration
Renewable
Non-renewable
By origin
Secondary
Primary
By use in each country
Non-conventional
Conventional
By environmental impact
Pollutants
Clean or non-poluting
Electricity
Electricity is the most widely used form of energy in industrialised societies for two reasons
It can be easily transformed
It can be transported long distance
Transport and distribution of electrical energy
Electric power plants
Nuclear power plants
Fossil fuel thermal power plants
Hydroelectric power plants
Combined cycle power plant
Non-conventional electric power plant
The main disadvantage of these power plants is that they
generate much less energy
The ir advantages are that they contaminate much less than
conventional power plants, they use renewable sources and they
reduce the energy dependence of petroleum and natural gas.
Wind power plants and wind farms
Solar power plants
Photo-thermal power plant
Photovoltaic power plant
Geothermal power plants
