Venue: BM-010 Lecture Hall
Date: 26th September 2008
Time: 3 pm – 5 pm
By: Ghokulesh
Last Friday on the 26th of September 2008 IMechE organized the second lecture in the series entitled Power Generation and Career Opportunities. The lecture was held in the Student Lecture Hall in UNITEN’s engineering faculty. The invited speaker was Ir Fam Yew Hin, who is a Registered Professional Engineer with BEM and a Corporate Member of IEM . The talk serves to introduce students to power generation, an area of utmost important for it provides electricity and ensure uninterrupted economic activity of a nation. Attendance was encouraging despite many students have returned hometown for preparation of Hari Raya.
During the lecture, Mr Yew Hin introduce us on methods that are used today to generate power; thermal power generation (steam and gas turbine, combined cycle gas turbine) and geothermal system, hydroelectric, wind turbine, solar power system, and nuclear power generation. He explained and elaborated on the most widely used power generation, which are the steam and gas power plant in Malaysia. This is enumerated through the statistics displayed regarding the percentage of power generated from respective methods; gas 66%, coal 29%, hydro 5.03%, and others 0.15%.
Mr Yew Hin also explained briefly on the mechanism and principle of operation of each power generation methods. He elaborated on the conventional method in Malaysia, the steam and gas turbine power systems. He also touched on the Combined Cycle Gas Turbine (CCGT). Their operations were clearly articulated through the diagrams displayed from the laptop slides. He also gave examples of these types of power plants in Malaysia.
We also learn of the economic viability in resorting to these two types of power plants where Mr Yew Hin explained on their pros and cons. The only problem that we face in the long run is the depleting natural resources; coal and oil. These are the two components that our plants run on.
As the talk ended, emcee Tiliban uttered words of appreciation and gratitude to Mr Yew Hin, followed by the giving of souvenir by IMechE President Dominic Hua.
Students registering their names upon attending the talk
Ir Fam Yew Hin preparing for his lecture
Mr Ye Hin giving lecture to students
Part of presentation regarding steam turbine operation
Handling of souvenir to Ir Fam Yew Hin by Dominic
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