Centrale Montemartini

This museum was a power plant where they have the old equipment on display plus some other Roman artifacts.
1 and 2. Originally the power plant had two diesel generators that produced 5,500kw of power from each engine for a total power output of 11,000kw
3. Is one of the connecting rods inside the diesel engine.
4. Is the alternator connected to the engine that produced electricity.
5 and 6. In 1940 they added a steam turbine that used coal to generate steam and it was rated at 20,000kw. These are pictures of the steam boiler where the steam was produced. This would bring the total power output of the power plant to 31,000kw. A modern nuclear power plant produced 5,000,000kw of power, which is a lot of AC units.
The rest of the pictures are some other stuff in the museum.Read more