From Power Plant to Incinerator: A Steam Turbine’s Story

Описание: Inside a garbage incinerator steam plant in a small town in Minnesota, up to 200 tons of waste are burned each day to produce steam for industrial use. In this video, we go behind the scenes to explore how a waste-to-energy facility operates — from trash processing and incinerators to boilers, pumps, fans, and emissions control systems.
Hidden inside the plant is something unexpected: a 4.5-megawatt steam turbine generator built by the British company Peter Brotherhood. Although it has not operated in years, this turbine once generated electricity using steam produced from waste heat in a combined-cycle power system. Today, the plant supplies steam to nearby food processing facilities instead of producing power.
We’ll take a detailed look at:
Garbage incinerators and refractory-lined furnaces
Boiler systems, economizers, and superheaters
Feedwater, condensate, and steam turbine pumps
Forced draft and induced draft fans
Baghouse filters and emissions control equipment
Deaerator and water treatment systems
The historic steam turbo-generator and control room
At the end of the tour, we connect this industrial turbine to the next video in the series — a deep dive into the engine room of the Edmund Fitzgerald, using original construction documents and a scale model to explain how Great Lakes steamships were powered.

Filmed with permission. No sensitive operational details or locations are shown.
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