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An electric power plant, also called generating station, is a setup that is used for generating electrical power. A power plant consists of a number of alternators (AC generators) which are driven by the prime movers such as IC engines, steam turbine, gas turbine, etc.The energy from some source such as steam, water, burning of fossil fuels, nuclear reaction, etc. is given to the prime mover, it starts rotating, and in turn rotate the alternator to which it is coupled. The alternator coverts this mechanical energy of rotation of turbine into electrical energy, which is then transmitted for the utilization.Based ... Read More

An electric power plant, also called generating station, is a setup that is used for generating electrical power. A power plant consists of a number of alternators (AC generators) which are driven by the prime movers such as IC engines, steam turbine, gas turbine, etc.The energy from some source such as steam, water, burning of fossil fuels, etc. is given to the prime mover, it starts rotating, and in turn rotate the alternator to which it is coupled. The alternator coverts this mechanical energy of rotation of turbine into electrical energy, which is then transmitted for the utilization.Based on the ... Read More

Electricity is nothing but a form of energy. The electricity is caused by the electric charge, where the charge is a property of subatomic particles such as electrons and protons. The electrons carry negative charge while the protons carry a positive charge.Technically, electricity is the phenomenon which involves either accumulation or movement of electric charge. Therefore, based on these two parameters (accumulation and movement of charge), the electricity can be of two types viz.Static ElectricityCurrent ElectricityIn this post, we will highlight all the significant differences between static electricity and current electricity by considering various factors such as basic definition, cause, ... Read More

A Power Plant is a setup of various equipment which are connected together to produce electricity. However, there are many technologies evolving day by day to produce electricity, two of them that produces electricity from solar power are solar power plant and solar thermal power plant. A solar power plant is also called a solar photovoltaic power plant.In this article, we will describe the differences between "solar power plant" and "solar thermal power plant". But, before highlighting their differences, we will see what a solar power plant and a solar thermal power plant are.What is a Solar Power Plant?An arrangement ... Read More

In AC electrical wiring, three types of conductors are used viz. phase wire, neutral wire and earth or ground wire. The phase wire is the live wire of the system which carries electric current from source to load. But, sometimes there is a confusion between neutral and earth wire because both of the conductors are considered to operate with zero voltage or lower voltage than phase wire voltage.Therefore, this article is created for explaining the differences between neutral and earth wire. But, it may difficult to understand the differences between neutral wire and earth in the beginning, so we have ... Read More

A closed path followed by electric current is known as electric circuit. Based on the type of electric supply, the electric circuits can be classified into two major types viz. DC circuit and AC circuit.Every electric circuit consists of a number of circuit elements such as energy sources, resistors, inductors, capacitors, etc. In a DC circuit only resistors are meaningful, because the inductor and capacitor are the frequency dependent elements and for DC supply the frequency is zero. On the other hand, all the three elements, i.e. resistors, inductors and capacitors are functional in an AC circuit.Based on the combination ... Read More

In electrical and electronics engineering, the automation is day by day increasing which makes the use of various types of sensors. There are a lot of photo-sensors or light sensors which are used for making the electrical and electronic circuit automatically operating. The light sensors are sensitive to the intensity of light. The two most common light sensors are photodiode and light-dependent resistor (LDR).In this post, we will take a look at all the differences between photodiode and LDR along with their description. A major difference between LDR and photodiode is that the LDR (Light Dependent Resistor) shows a bidirectional ... Read More

Both Multiplexer and Demultiplexer are types of combinational digital circuits widely used in many large-scale digital systems. The major difference between the multiplexer and demultiplexer is in their ability to accept multiple input signals and single input signal respectively.We will explain some other noticeable differences between multiplexer and demultiplexer, but before that have a look on the basic description of multiplexer and demultiplexer which is given in this article.What is Multiplexer?A digital logic circuit which is capable of accepting several inputs and generating a single output is known as multiplexer or MUX. Thus, the multiplexer is a type of data ... Read More

Both multiplexer and decoder are types of combinational digital circuits that are extensively used in the transfer of signals in many communication systems. Basically, the multiplexer and decoder both perform almost identical functions, however they are different from each other in many aspects.The major difference between multiplexer and decoder is in their function that is the primary function of a multiplexer is to transmit data while the primary function of a decoder is to interpret a coded data.In this article, we have enlisted all the significant differences between multiplexer and decoder in the table below.What is Multiplexer?The multiplexer or MUX ... Read More

An air conditioner (AC) is a mechanism which is used to regulate the temperature of a closed space by removing the heat from the space and throwing it to an outside area. The cool air then can circulate in the closed space such as a room or a hall.Air conditioners use a cold liquid refrigerant which absorbs the heat from the hotter space (room) in the evaporator and hence cooling down the room. After absorbing the heat, the refrigerant turns into the gaseous state and is put through a compressor to rise its temperature. This gaseous refrigerant then passes through ... Read More