Flexible Kalina Cycle Systems

ISBN-13: 9781774634080 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 370 str.

Tangellapalli Srinivas; N. Shankar Ganesh; R. Shankar

Opis

This volume provides a good understanding of the binary fluid system, highlighting new dimensions of the existing Kalina cycle system, a thermodynamic process for converting thermal energy into usable mechanical power. The volume illustrates that providing new flexibility leads to new research outcomes and possible new projects in this field.

Spis treści

History of Developments.  Basic Thermodynamics.  Thermodynamic Properties of Ammonia-Water Mixture.  Binary Mixture Thermodynamic Processes.  Kalina Cycle System with Low Temperature Heat Recovery.  Kalina Cycle System with Intermediate Temperature Heat Recovery.  Kalina Cycle System with High Temperature Heat Recovery.  Cooling Cogeneration.

O autorze

Tangellapalli Srinivas, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Dr. B. R. Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar, Punjab, India. He previously worked as a Professor at the CO2 Research and Green Technologies Centre of the School of Mechanical Engineering at the Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, India, and the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Sciences, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada, as a postdoctoral fellow. Dr. Srinivas has published many research papers in various international and national journals as well as conference proceedings. He has also published a patent on a combined power and cooling system and has filed two patents on trigeneration and single axis self-tracker. He has completed two funded projects on vapor power and trigeneration systems, respectively with SERB and CSIR, India. His research area includes power-free solar trackers, hybrid solarbiomass systems, poly-generation, conducting exergy scrutinizing, heat recovery options in cement factories, desalination, solar cooling, advanced combined cycle systems, and ORC and KCS plants.

N. Shankar Ganesh, PhD, is a Professor at Kingston Engineering College, Vellore, India. He received his MTech degree in Energy Systems Engineering and a PhD in Power Generation Cycles from Vellore Institute of Technology.

Mr. R. Shankar is working as senior research fellow on various funded projects.