Steam turbine generator maintenance for sugar mills

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   This sugar mill powers

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   itself with its own

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   waste.

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   For every hundred tons

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   of cane it crushes,

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   almost 30 tons of

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   bagasse are left over.

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   So how does it

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   turn that into

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    electricity?

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    The mills squeeze the

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    cane and extract the

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    juice.

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    The leftover bagasse

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    travels to the boiler

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    where it burns.

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    That fire boils the

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    water running through

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    hundreds of tubes and

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    turns it into

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    high-pressure steam at

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    more than 300 degrees.

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    The steam enters the

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    turbine and pushes row

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    after row of blades,

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    spinning at thousands

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    of revolutions per

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    minute.

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    And once again the

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    gearbox shows up.

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    The reducer brings the

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    speed down to 1,800

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    for a four-pole

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    generator that

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    delivers 60 Hertz.

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    The steam leaving the

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    turbine is not wasted.

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    It goes to the

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    factory to heat and

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    evaporate the juice.

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    That is cogeneration.

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    The same principle

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    drives geothermal

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    plants like Cerro

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    Prieto in Baja

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    California where the

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    steam comes from the

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    earth.

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    At the mill,

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    the generator runs day

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    and night for the

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    whole harvest and gets

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    repaired between

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    harvests.

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    At TEMISA Power Gen,

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    we diagnose,

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    repair and rewind

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    turbogenerators.

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    Get a quote at

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    temisapowergen.mx

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