A Rare Look Inside a Power Plant’s Giant Steam Turbine

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A power plant’s plans to cut up and recycle a giant steam turbine is a rare opportunity to take a peek into the clever engineering inside: from the casing to the boiler to the fan blades.

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I'm retired now, but I worked as a boilermaker as a young man. And I spent many hours working in all types of power generation facilities. Walking across the turbine deck at any power plant gives you the realization of how impressive these machines are.

briangarrow

I too used to work in a power plant and some people don’t realize that after the steam passes through the turbines what happens ? It gets condensed back to water creating large vacuum and the vacuum also in a way helps draw in the steam therefore turning the turbine. Pretty cool mechanical design

alant

In California the geniuses on the coastal commission decided that the coastal generating stations should no longer use seawater to condense steam. This was a multi-trillion-dollar game losing decision that met no resistance. They actually have air cooled condensers at the beach with cool Pacific water right there. Californians pay double the National average $/kWh. They threw away perfectly good steam turbines with low-Nox burners on the boilers. They just pass along the costs to the consumer. It is ridiculous.

melaniecotterell

0:51 They are really cleaver piece of engineering

*le me, mechanical engineer:- It is . IT IS

pranjalvw

This place used to be down the road from me in Salisbury, NC.

cambam

How do you pronounce the following words?
1. fine
2. mine
3. line
4. nine
5. pine
6. sine
7. tine
8. vine
9. wine
How do you pronounce turbine? NOT TURBAN.

ascetic

Romans ground corn in 70 bc? Where did they get the corn?

Minong_Manitou_Mishepeshu

Another great video from Smithsonian thank you for this ur fan Otis here
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otissmith

Have spent many hours doing refits in Ameren U.E's plants in Eastern Missouri.

chuckg

It was very helpful because I don’t know really much.

紹介チャンネル

I wonder how much power one little turbine vane produces? Will it power a space heater, or just a light bulb?

AKrn

I used to re build these things. Always on the road.

rickdozier

Steam turbines are perfectly good power generators. (When they dont rust)

How do you think nuclear plant create electricity? :P

davecrupel

I can assure you the Romans had zero corn in 70BCE.

scenicdepictionsofchicagolife

How could the romans have used this principle to grind corn when corn was in the americans and not shared with europe until long after they were gone? Sure, they did wheat and barley, but the video says corn.

scarstantine