How Electricity is Generated in one of the World's Largest Coal-Fired Power Stations - KUSILE
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- čas přidán 16. 07. 2024
- An educational documentary about how electricity is generated at Eskom's Kusile power station in the Mpumalanga province of South Africa.
The video take the viewer inside a coal fired power station.
Filmed in October 2022.
#Kusile #powerstation #coal #kusilepowerstation #Electricity #powergeneration #eskom
Full interview with power station manager: • An interview with Esko...
0:00 Introduction
0:52 The Water Treatment Plant
4:07 Fuel Oil
7:15 Coal Stockpiles
10:24 Crushing and Burning the Coal
19:34 Overview of Steam and Turbines
21:04 The Generator Floor
28:05 Cooling the Generator
33:40 Overview of Measuring Generator Voltage and Current
35:42 Generator Busbars
36:24 Stepping up the Generator Voltage
39:32 Why Voltage must be Stepped Up
44:26 The Sound of 400kV
46:43 The Dry Cooling System
47:37 The Sound of Kusile's Dry Cooling System
50:12 Powering the Plant: Unit Transformer
53:23 Byproducts and Pollution
56:25 The Control Room
1:00:30 Managing the Power Plant
1:13:33 Credits
This documentary was made independently and there is no affiliation or payment from any political party or company. We visited Kusile in 2022 on a site visit with engineering students from the University of Johannesburg and I realised that there needs to be an educational video showing the details of how a power station works. Thanks to Eskom for allowing us to film and make this documentary.
Produced, narrated, and directed by Philip Baron.
0:00 Introduction
0:52 The Water Treatment Plant
4:07 Fuel Oil
7:15 Coal Stockpiles
10:24 Crushing and Burning the Coal
19:34 Overview of Steam and Turbines
21:04 The Generator Floor
28:05 Cooling the Generator
33:40 Overview of Measuring Generator Voltage and Current
35:42 Generator Busbars
36:24 Stepping up the Generator Voltage
39:32 Why Voltage must be Stepped Up
44:26 The Sound of 400kV
46:43 The Dry Cooling System
47:37 The Sound of Kusile's Dry Cooling System
50:12 Powering the Plant: Unit Transformer
53:23 Byproducts and Pollution
56:25 The Control Room
1:00:30 Managing the Power Plant
1:13:33 Credits
They are still using brushes on generator 😮😮😮. It's very tiresome, inspection and maintenance.
We need channels like this to actually give engineers bk their voice,instead of politicians and journalists who actually failed maths
Absolutely... 😂
thank you!
Amen
i am so proud of this guy, he speaks sense with confidence, i see the next CEO of eskom who understands the process of power generation
Unfortunately Politics will get in the way
Musa Ngwane knows his job,it sounds like he knows everything there as a senior engineer. He is the person who should explain to the county when things are not working.
He should be the minister of electric or the next Eskom ceo.
Great stuff, Mfo ka Ngwane.
I am proud to have been part of the team that built this powerstation, i was there when Unit 1 was built and left few days after it got commissioned😅 we used to earn a lot of money yoh as Artisans i miss those days
Hope they bring you back
Excellent content and greatly presented. As someone who who studied mechanical engineering, I could relate easily. I just don't understand why it's taking so long to complete this project, seems like it is cash cow for certain connected individuals.
Thanks
KUSILE is a ATM for the connected.
Very true especially if you are part of the cartels
🤔interesting
Thank you for this very informative and technically well explained documentary. Hats off to all the dedicated Engineers and Technicians who are keeping this vital infrastructure running 24/7.
some of the time
Love your channel dude! Keep up the great work!!
Thanks a lot
I am so proud of the engineers at Kusile Power Station. This video made me so happy as the talent at Kusile Power Station was showcased. This video proves that there are capable engineers in South Africa. Keep up the good work all technical staff at Eskom!
Ae you know, your work station bra yaka danko vir die hard werk sacrificing for your country risking life.
Very professional and informative
@Musa ,very knowledgeable and easy going youngman keep up the good work learnt a lot from this humble engineer!
This is a brilliant video. Well explained and I like the notes that popup every now and then
I'm so happy to see South Africans with the ability to explain and take us through the details of electricity production. It shows some progress in education and capacitating ordinary people in running mega-projects. We need to see more of this type documentation in other fields as well.
South Africans are always good, is just the ANC tht has undermined us by importing poor & cheap labour from countries they're in exile and those countries tht said they supported their nonsense freedom struggle cowards. This is a good country more of out ANC government out of power, they're destroyers of good infrastructure built by apartheid government izinja
WOW THATS WAS WELL EXPLAINED, THANKS FOR DOING THIS DOCUMENTARY...
Can't wait til' Eskom hires me to work here
very detailed. This is excellent! Well done to all involved.
Great channel - thanks for sharing all your knowledge.
Title should be "How Electricity is NOT Generated in one of the World's Largest Coal-Fired Power Stations"
why is that?
Im glad they being guided by engineering people instead of some marketing person who knows nothing about the plant. Engineers on this clip knows their job because they can explain the process smoothly and in basic terms for anyone to understand.
Definitely
There are still some very excellent and hardworking people in eskom ❤
Excellent presentation of the generation process!... Well done!!
Very knowledgeable young engineer .
Well done very knowledgeable and informative.im Zimbabwean and work at a power station 👌
Beautiful content, just what we need in South Africa, our own Megastructures content, very inspiring especially for the kids, students and pupils, Please do more, the biggest dams, biggest sewer treatment plants, Biggest Water Treatment Plant, deepest mine, longest road construction projects and so on .... include drone images too, talk to me for that.
Should hav said "Kusile" is a Nguni word, because in Zulu,Xhosa,Siswati and Ndebele its the same
I'm watching this during load-shedding.
💀💀
Apparently it's not finished yet.
@metalcake2288 i bet its been 200 years😂AnC criminals are unbelievable
This was a very interesting watch. It would have been nice if you were to ask what their efficiencies are. One of the advantages of supercritical power plants is their high efficiency, but it would be nice to know the actual efficiency numbers.
Eskom Top performing General Manager is Mr Terrence Masilela, the power stations are coming back to life because of his , one the best Engineers buy far😇😇
Nice stuff. Very informative and great watch for newly appointed engineer. Keep up the good work!
Truly grateful for this content 🙏🏾👌🏾
very detailed. This is excellent! well done to all involved
All your videos are amazing,I've become the handyman of my friends and family by learning from your channel, I really like this longer format documentary video, super cool and informational, more so than anything you'll find on TV today.
thank you
Amazing! Thank you for this.
This video was very helpful and important thank you
Excellent content, as one of the guardians I can relate and wish we could have more content like this😊
Excellent presentation and a get to know of the Power plant, thank you.
Thanks for this fascinating presentation, I am not an engineer but really enjoyed this content.
Very informative, thank you very much for this.
thank you Dr for such an informative video.
i fell in love with boilers from starting my new job dealing with a 5mw firetube boiler, i have been running it for five years from water to the final product, what a beautiful feat of engineering i just wished people didn't take this stuff for granted, we would be making a lot better decisions politically.
Thank you for this informative video.
Thank you for such an infomative documentary. If possible please may yiu produce another one on broadcasting centres like SABC.
A very informative video explaining the broad process used in coal fired boilers for electricity generation. There are some discrepancies about the process and equipment though, specifically in relation to Kusile.
Biggest problem with Eskom is the high corruption and mafia type business happening inside of eskom.
Nicely done...
This was awesome.
Insightful video
Very informative thank you 👌🏼
Great educational content
Awesome interesting video! Will ovefffer a lot of persepctive to the public!
i love informative content like this ;).... keep it up
I love it. Nice Content
48:35 change in phase of water is to maintain and creating vacuum which is very important in the efficiency of the turbines
The best GM ever! Hands down!!
nice 1 👏🏽
Excellent.. wow...
Such a knowledgeable man whose work is spoiled by politics and corruption.
Fascinating
"How electricity is NOT generated at the Kusile power plant"
Well done
This is incredible
It should actually say how it is NOT generating power and just keeps on costing us more money
this is the level i want to become on my job. i want to know everything about it
Great turbine spinners, except the POLLUTION
How the Hell did you get access to this footage this is Excellent😎😎😎😎....
can use this as a training video well done
thank you that is the purpose of this video
Film a nuclear power station next, please.
While they told us the coal is wet that’s why we have load shedding
I love it
Eskom Top Performing Power Station General Manager to date is( Mr Terrence Masilela ), powers are coming back to life under his leadership best engineer by far.😅😅
Interesting that hydrogen gas is used for generator cooling....I believe it supresses arcing as well.
Also, what kind of huge inverter do they have to energize the stator?
If anyone wants to see what power plant control rooms look like, a YT channel called "The Proper People" features urban explorers that have visited closed power stations.... beautiful engineering and classic art deco architecture.
This plant is on another level - however one feels about coal, it's clear that they're doing everything they can to make it more efficient. Someday this plant will be energized by geothermal or fusion, who knows?
@sasol we need something like this for the production of petrol from coal
So that we can produce our own 😅
Thanks for an informative look at how and where our electricity comes from. Questions -When a power station first starts up, from what you've shown, it would require outside power, yes? If so, where would that come from? Once it is producing "its own power", I assume the power station consumes its own power, where required, yes?
There must be external power during the start-up. This is obtained via the transmission grid by another power station or, if none are available during a national blackout, this power will be obtained from pumped storage stations in the Drakensberg
@@heinvosloo45 Thank you Hein.
52:59 the power station can become a load on the grid and energy flows from grid to plant when plant is not generating
There's a unit out of the 6 units that is called auxiliary unit, it supplies all the electrical component with power...hope that answers you.
@@modisamashishi216 Many thanks Modisa. Always wondered and now I know.
Three crucial units at Kusile, the problematic, unfinished power station beset by fire and the collapse of a flue duct, which is at the heart of the corruption case against former acting Eskom CEO Matshela Koko, are all expected to be back online by the end of the year.11 Sept 2023
“Only 10 years late and 1000% over budget
nice power station, would hate for this to break down or have any maintenance issues
You didn't explained excitatir system and grid synchronization at all.
Demineralized water tears the shit out of stainless steel.
so when will it actually be in full commission? It's been years and still not in full production...
Maybe consider g pin to the rotors to run it syst drive with magneto force.
So this thing of telling us that there’s wet coal is a lie to keep us in Loadshedding
This is the type of content we need more physics less politics.
Love how it opens.. once it's complete... for 5 sacks.. its gone on long enough. Should have just bought solar panels and batteries..
Same as we have here in UK, 3000rpm to give 50Hz. Sadly we are getting rid of all our coal fired stations, not much in the way of effective replacements though 🙄
There actually no need to use the HP, IP and LP stages of having the generator turned.. I work for a company that’s uses methane gas fueled SGT 400 SIEMENS turbines which run at minimum 9600 output power where 2 eskom turbines can be interconnected and run at the same speed. How I hope super heated steam can be done away with and have methane gas generate our electricity NO MORE LOADSHEDDING FOR SA.
Nice thought but as long as we have the ANC interfering in any system things are not going to work like intended. Railways Harbours Post Office Denel you name it and we can see the decay. There was a similsr video about a power station in the U.K.. difference is like chalk an cheese.
Those big gas turbines drive a generator off their output shaft. The hot exhaust gases go to steam generator raise steam for use in a steam turbine to drive generator also. Its called a combined cycle gas turbine power plant. You won't get away easily from steam in thermal power generation.
South Africa should use Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) to replace coal for electricity generation so that it can achieve net zero CO2 emissions.
so much explanations yet there is load shedding.
I work in a coal powered plant!
I'm watching this is stage 5 darkness 😂😂😂
📍52:59
Kusile is one of the prime examples of ANC corruption, a disgrace, a horror, nothing to be proud of.
I would suggest the reason they dont use cooling towers in this application os nevause of a lack of cooling water supply in that location. Also as far as efficiency is concerned, it will take a lot of works power to energise those forced cooling fans 🙄
You have to explain excitator system and grid synchronisation. You blurred the central control room.
Eskom did not allow us to show the footage in the control room owing to the law in SA. The control room is considered a key point and not allowed to be in the media.
Why must coal be supplied to Kusile by truck? Wasn't Kusile built at this location so that coal could be supplied by conveyor belt, as at other power stations?
its a pity that coal is brought in via trucking and the supply is not very close to the plant.
So how is it possible that we use more electricity after 16:00when companies close at that time an all workers are traveling at that time
Evening peak.Every country has a different peak time. Depends on climate, heating or air conditioning demands. Or people cooking food and making hot drinks.
the demand ramps up from afternoon as the millions of people go home to cook and bathe collectively is a huge demand. This is also the time when consumers use most of their electricity, lights, TVs etc...
Sir any 2 reasons why coal self ignited???
How does that tank hold 1.2m cubic meters of oil? That’s 1.2b liters
Coal makes much more sense than biofuels.
All bullsh*!t this plant cost three times what it should have.
the high cost overruns are unacceptable, but this is a video for teaching purposes of how electricity is generated. Same as in other power stations.
@@ecologicaltime😢 They looking for any opportunity to talk s**t about Eskom instead of understanding the production, the media in this country hasn't done close a job to your presentation which is a tragedy 😢