Fossil fuels large-scale power generation

Reference fossil-fuel-based technologies for hydrogen production and large-scale power generation... 

Radiant power boilers are two-phase boilers. Designs typically employ only one drum for the largest installations, whereas smaller power boiler designs generally incorporate two drums. Fossil fuel-fed, radiant power boilers are probably the most common type of equipment employed for large-scale utility power generation. 

Another limitation for further development of the traditional BN type reactors may be due to the current electricity market structure. When electricity consumption growth rate is slow, the demand for large capacity nuclear power plants (NPPs) will be limited also. Meanwhile, small NPPs could be used not only for gradual increase of the generating capacity but for the replacement of the outdated fossil fuel and nuclear power plants (such replacement is often referred to as renovation). The reactor installations with an installed capacity of 300 MW(e) could be used both to replace large-scale NPPs and for autonomous operation within small local grids. The latter may have even small capacity requirements and, therefore, smaller versions of the BN GT plant (down to 5 MW(e)) are being examined currently. 

However, the equilibrium has been changed by large-scale burning of fossil fuels in modern society. Power production and automobile exhausts generate huge amounts of carbon dioxide, which are delivered to the atmosphere. A considerable disturbance to the global environment occurs. 

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