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    Steam is used as the working medium in steam power plants because it has several advantages: it can be produced easily from water, it does not react with the materials in the plant's equipment, and remains stable at the temperatures required. Coal is a combustible sedimentary rock composed primarily of carbon that is used as fuel. There are different types of coal ranked by degree of metamorphosis: peat, lignite, sub-bituminous coal, bituminous coal, anthracite, and graphite which is not commonly used as fuel.

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    Steam is used as the working medium in steam power plants because it has several advantages: it can be produced easily from water, it does not react with the materials in the plant's equipment, and remains stable at the temperatures required. Coal is a combustible sedimentary rock composed primarily of carbon that is used as fuel. There are different types of coal ranked by degree of metamorphosis: peat, lignite, sub-bituminous coal, bituminous coal, anthracite, and graphite which is not commonly used as fuel.

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    Steam is used as the working medium in steam power plants because it has several advantages: it can be produced easily from water, it does not react with the materials in the plant's equipment, and remains stable at the temperatures required. Coal is a combustible sedimentary rock composed primarily of carbon that is used as fuel. There are different types of coal ranked by degree of metamorphosis: peat, lignite, sub-bituminous coal, bituminous coal, anthracite, and graphite which is not commonly used as fuel.

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    Steam is used as the working medium in steam power plants because it has several advantages: it can be produced easily from water, it does not react with the materials in the plant's equipment, and remains stable at the temperatures required. Coal is a combustible sedimentary rock composed primarily of carbon that is used as fuel. There are different types of coal ranked by degree of metamorphosis: peat, lignite, sub-bituminous coal, bituminous coal, anthracite, and graphite which is not commonly used as fuel.

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    Why steam used as working medium in steam power plant

    Steam is an important medium of producing mechanical energy. Steam has the


    advantage that, it can be raised from water which is available in abundance it does not
    react much with the materials of the equipment of power plant and is stable at the
    temperature required in the plant. Steam is used to drive steam engines, steam turbines
    etc. Steam power station is most suitable where coal is available in abundance.Thermal
    electrical power generation is one of the major methods. Out of total power developed
    in India about 60% is thermal. For a thermal power plant the range of pressure may vary
    from 10 kg/cm2 to super critical pressures and the range of temperature may be from
    250C to 650C.
    Define coal
    Coal (from the Old English term col, which has meant "mineral of fossilized carbon"
    since the 13th century) is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary
    rock usually occurring in rock strata in layers or veins called coal beds or coal seams.
    The harder forms, such as anthracite coal, can be regarded as metamorphic
    rock because of later exposure to elevated temperature andpressure. Coal is composed
    primarily of carbon along with variable quantities of other elements,
    chiefly hydrogen, sulfur, oxygen, andnitrogen.
    Types of coals
    As geological processes apply pressure to dead biotic material over time, under suitable
    conditions it is transformed successively into:
    Peat, considered to be a precursor of coal, has industrial importance as a fuel in
    some regions, for example, Ireland and Finland. In its dehydrated form, peat is a
    highly effective absorbent for fuel and oil spills on land and water. It is also used as a
    conditioner for soil to make it more able to retain and slowly release water.
    Lignite, or brown coal, is the lowest rank of coal and used almost exclusively as fuel
    for electric power generation. Jet, a compact form of lignite, is sometimes polished
    and has been used as an ornamental stone since the Upper Palaeolithic.
    Sub-bituminous coal, whose properties range from those of lignite to those of
    bituminous coal, is used primarily as fuel for steam-electric power generation and is
    an important source of light aromatic hydrocarbons for the chemical
    synthesis industry.
    Bituminous coal is a dense sedimentary rock, usually black, but sometimes dark
    brown, often with well-defined bands of bright and dull material; it is used primarily
    as fuel in steam-electric power generation, with substantial quantities used for heat
    and power applications in manufacturing and to make coke.
    "Steam coal" is a grade between bituminous coal and anthracite, once widely used
    as a fuel for steam locomotives. In this specialized use, it is sometimes known as
    "sea-coal" in the US.
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    Small steam coal (dry small steam nuts or DSSN) was used
    as a fuel for domestic water heating.
    Anthracite, the highest rank of coal, is a harder, glossy black coal used primarily for
    residential and commercial space heating. It may be divided further into
    metamorphically altered bituminous coal and "petrified oil", as from the deposits in
    Pennsylvania.
    Graphite, technically the highest rank, is difficult to ignite and is not commonly used
    as fuel it is mostly used in pencils and, when powdered, as a lubricant.

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