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Is the responsiveness of an oil plant so different from a natural gas plant? Why? They're both essentially a furnace fueled by a flow of combustible fluid, ri
by mac01021 8y ago
Is the responsiveness of an oil plant so different from a natural gas plant? Why? They're both essentially a furnace fueled by a flow of combustible fluid, right?
- mechagodzilla 8y agoThey are similar, but outside of small islands few people use oil for power generation due to the high cost compared to natural gas.
- chronomex 8y agoNatgas is a turbine engine directly; coal and oil uses a boiler running a steam turbine.
- jabl 8y agoNG plants tend to use gas turbines, which can ramp very quickly indeed. Steam plants are a lot slower (thermal stresses and whatnot). Very little electricity is produced with oil, BTW. Steam plants are usually coal or nuclear.
- hectormalot 8y agoNote: many bigger gas plants are combined cycle, the exhaust of the gas turbine generates steam in a waste heat boiler for a steam turbine. Often multiple GTs on a single ST.