Cockburn Power Station

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Cockburn Power Station (CKB) is a power station in Cockburn, Western Australia. The station was commissioned in 2003. It has a 160 MW natural gas powered gas turbine which provides steam to an 80 MW steam turbine that together generate a total 240 MW of electricity. [1]

Western Australia State in Australia

Western Australia is a state occupying the entire western third of Australia. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, and the Southern Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east, and South Australia to the south-east. Western Australia is Australia's largest state, with a total land area of 2,529,875 square kilometres, and the second-largest country subdivision in the world, surpassed only by Russia's Sakha Republic. The state has about 2.6 million inhabitants – around 11 percent of the national total – of whom the vast majority live in the south-west corner, 79 per cent of the population living in the Perth area, leaving the remainder of the state sparsely populated.

Natural gas fossil fuel

Natural gas is a naturally occurring hydrocarbon gas mixture consisting primarily of methane, but commonly including varying amounts of other higher alkanes, and sometimes a small percentage of carbon dioxide, nitrogen, hydrogen sulfide, or helium. It is formed when layers of decomposing plant and animal matter are exposed to intense heat and pressure under the surface of the Earth over millions of years. The energy that the plants originally obtained from the sun is stored in the form of chemical bonds in the gas.

Gas turbine Type of internal combustion engine

A gas turbine, also called a combustion turbine, is a type of continuous combustion, internal combustion engine. The main elements common to all gas turbine engines are:

  1. An upstream rotating gas compressor;
  2. A combustor;
  3. A downstream turbine on the same shaft as the compressor.

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References

  1. ↑ Kwinana Power Station and Cockburn Power Station Environmental Improvement Plan, "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 April 2011. Retrieved 9 April 2012.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
Verve Energy

Verve Energy was a Western Australian Government owned corporation responsible for operating the state's electricity generators on the atate's South West Interconnected System. It was split from the then vertically integrated Western Power Corporation, in 2006 during reforms to the state's electricity sector.

Coordinates: 32°12′00″S115°46′26″E / 32.2°S 115.774°E / -32.2; 115.774

Geographic coordinate system Coordinate system

A geographic coordinate system is a coordinate system that enables every location on Earth to be specified by a set of numbers, letters or symbols. The coordinates are often chosen such that one of the numbers represents a vertical position and two or three of the numbers represent a horizontal position; alternatively, a geographic position may be expressed in a combined three-dimensional Cartesian vector. A common choice of coordinates is latitude, longitude and elevation. To specify a location on a plane requires a map projection.


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