can anyone give me a description of conversion of heating oil into electricity.
2006-11-19 09:22:45 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Engineering
when oil is burning it makes a lot of heat. This heat is used to transform water into steam (like when you prepare tea) this stream has much more volume than the water and so has a lot of pressure. This pressure goes via pipes to a turbine an makes it rotate quite fast. On the turbine's axis there is an electrical generator (a bit like the dynamo on an old bicycle) that produce the electricity.
In the end you have to get rid of the steam typically by cooling in down or sending it into the atmosphere.
2006-11-19 09:38:50 · answer #1 · answered by cd4017 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Burn the oil, heat water to steam, use the steam to drive a turbine, use the turbine to drive an electrical generator. That's how they do it down at the power station.
As complex as it sounds, that's the most efficient way at present.
2006-11-19 17:45:35 · answer #2 · answered by Steve 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
heating oil's chemical formula is usually either C14H30, C15H32, C16H34, C17H36, C18H38, C19H40, or C20H42.
For efficient burning, the oil is pressurized through a calibrated orifice; the atomized droplets mix with air and ignite, often with help from a high-voltage spark. Heating oil produces 19,500 BTU per pound (45 MJ/kg) and weighs 7.2 pounds per imperial gallon (0.72 kg/l), which is about the same heat per unit mass as the somewhat less dense diesel fuel. Number 2 fuel oil has a flash point of 52 °C.
2006-11-19 17:26:19 · answer #3 · answered by snissari 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Potential chemical energy - conversion losses - transmission losses = power output
2006-11-19 17:36:15 · answer #4 · answered by ★Greed★ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Could burn it and use some photovoltaics to convert it to electricity.
2006-11-19 17:25:16 · answer #5 · answered by danthemanbrunner 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋