The parts of a coal-fired power plant include a turbine, engine, pentstock, and blades. True or False?

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anonymous · Answer

Please Help!

anonymous · Answer

I'm guessing True.

neonumbrella5115 · Answer

Do you know what each of these things are?

anonymous · Answer

An engine runs things, turbine i think maybe like a wind turbine, Blades are blades, and i looked up a pent stock.  I don't know much about a coal fires power plants though. @neonumbrella5115

neonumbrella5115 · Answer

Just for fun, two years ago another OpenStudy member posted this question: http://openstudy.com/study#/updates/5159b81de4b0507ceba26483. Okay, down to business. A pentstock: a sluice or gate or intake structure that controls water flow, or an enclosed pipe that delivers water to hydro turbines and sewerage systems. It is a term that has been inherited from the earlier technology of mill ponds and watermills. (Wikipedia) So if a pentstock is used with water, it would make since that it wouldn't be in a coal power plant.