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<blockquote data-quote="Spiff" data-source="post: 789889" data-attributes="member: 2228"><p><img src="/images/smilies/image810.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":mean:" title="Image810 :mean:" data-shortname=":mean:" /></p><p></p><p>They're basically something for a worst-case scenario...something really, really, REALLY bad happens and all the power plants shut down, and there's no power in the grid to start them back up.</p><p></p><p>Almost all power plants need a pretty substantial amount of power to start back up. Certainly all the big stuff. Steam cycles need big freakin' pumps to be fired up, and gas turbines - jet engines - need something to start them spinning.</p><p></p><p>So to get this power, you start up your black start generator, which is from what I saw usually a big diesel generator. You can supposedly also use gas turbines, but only if you have some way to get them spinning again - usually they're started by electric motors, but they can also be started by stored compressed air.</p><p></p><p>The black start will provide enough power to start up your gas turbines or maybe one of your smaller steam cycles, and then you can start turning the other stuff on.</p><p></p><p>Black start locations are kind of not supposed to be disclosed...for fairly obvious reasons. I'm pretty sure I haven't said anything that can't already be found on the internets.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Spiff, post: 789889, member: 2228"] :mean: They're basically something for a worst-case scenario...something really, really, REALLY bad happens and all the power plants shut down, and there's no power in the grid to start them back up. Almost all power plants need a pretty substantial amount of power to start back up. Certainly all the big stuff. Steam cycles need big freakin' pumps to be fired up, and gas turbines - jet engines - need something to start them spinning. So to get this power, you start up your black start generator, which is from what I saw usually a big diesel generator. You can supposedly also use gas turbines, but only if you have some way to get them spinning again - usually they're started by electric motors, but they can also be started by stored compressed air. The black start will provide enough power to start up your gas turbines or maybe one of your smaller steam cycles, and then you can start turning the other stuff on. Black start locations are kind of not supposed to be disclosed...for fairly obvious reasons. I'm pretty sure I haven't said anything that can't already be found on the internets. [/QUOTE]
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