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That's next week's video. We are going to close the breaker at 180 out of phase and see what happens.

@@kimmer6 Cool. Always wanted to see a generator disintegrate.

@@ignatiusdemonseed In 1989 at Blue Diamond Almond Growers in Sacramento, Calif, a 6 Megawatt generator under full load had its breaker open then slam closed thanks to faulty fault detection equipment. The generator ripped out all of its foundation bolts, output buss bars, cooling water lines, broke the shaft near the coupling, and tossed itself out and far enough over to punch a hole in the control room wall, then it fell back in the hole. My job was to supervise crews to remove a Westinghouse steam turbine and its generator from a closed plant in Danville, Virginia, and adapt it to the 20 foot high existing concrete pedestal. 3 months later it was up and running. It was shipped in pieces and was assembled and aligned in place. A machine shop near Oakland renewed many of the parts. That was a challenging job and it needed a hands on engineer/hot rodder like me to think on the fly to make it all work. The unit ran fine for years until the utility company reduced the payment for the excess power sold back to the grid. I heard that the power plant was removed and sold years ago. The boiler was fired by a mixture of wood chips and almond shells fed by conveyor belts. Extracted steam was used to dry almonds, and the entire factory ran on the electrical output of this unit. All of the extra power that was put into the grid generated money. It was one of my favorite jobs. We had an 8 foot job progress chart taped to the wall and it was completely useless 4 hours into the first day.

@@kimmer6 Great experience, bro! That's true cogeneration. In a scheme like that there's profit opportunity at every corner. In 1989 i was an operations shift supervisor at a five-unit coal-fired plant on the Ohio River. Saw some strange stuff but nothing overtly catastrophic like your deal at Blue Diamond. Did that until 2003 then went into generation dispatch, everything from solar to nukes. That was fun. Retired now.

@@ignatiusdemonseed I used to tell operators to leave the control room, take a few hours off ''Because a watched pot never boils''. You can tell who a Plant Operator is at a party. He's the one who's feet hit the desk before his butt hits the chair. Its cool to know that you know where electricity comes from and everything it needs to get distributed through the grid. All of my friends think it just comes out of the wall outlet. We had rolling blackouts here in Calif this Summer thanks to extreme heat. Not at my house.....I have lithium battery banks, inverters, transfer switch to rig for silent running. There's an Onan 7500 diesel gen set on a 40 gallon fuel skid with rubber mounts bolted to my garage floor in case of a quake. That's for recharging on rainy days. I retired in 2018 and life is going well...so far.

I guess it's BPV or Back Pressure Vessel.

@@zelkhantntp9435 for what??

@@rickyrexa655 Steam turbine exhaust is being used to pressurize steam vessels for other operations inside a plant or mill. Usually steam turbine will receive higher pressure steam, let's say 20 bar. After being expanded inside turbine, the steam will drop pressure to around 3 bar. This steam will exit through exhaust pipe. It's wasting energy if we didn't capture the exhaust steam, so we capture it inside pressure vessel, known as BPV. BPV pressure will be used for other low pressure operation as needed by the mill or plant.

@@zelkhantntp9435 and than.. For what savety valve...

In order for you to do that, you'd need a boiler to produce stream for the turbine. You'd need fuel to run the boiler. So its more than just a steam turbine needed...