Power Engineering: Advances and Challenges, Part A: Thermal, Hydro and Nuclear Power

ISBN-13: 9781138705852 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 440 str.

Viorel Badescu; George Christian Lazaroiu

Opis

Faced with the climate change phenomena, humanity now has to contend with changing attitudes with respect to environment protection and depletion of classical energy resources. These have had consequences in the power production sector, which is already faced with negative public opinions on nuclear energy and favorable perception of renewable energy resources and distributed power generation. The objective of this book is to review all these changes and recent advances and to present innovative options and solutions for future power generation.

Spis treści

PROGRESS IN THERMAL, HYDRO AND NUCLEAR CLASSICAL TECHNOLOGIES. Understanding of the Flexibility from Combined Cycle Gas Turbine Plant. Directions for improving the flexibility of coal-fired units in an era of increasing potential of renewable energy sources. Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Power Cycles. Nuclear power. Next generation of nuclear reactors. Hydropower. ADVANCES IN RENEWABLE ENERGY-BASED THERMAL TECHNOLOGIES. Geothermal Power. Power to gas conversion technologies and related systems. Stationary Fuel Cells and Hybrid Systems. Biopower technologies. Energy plantations value-added options. New efficient and ecologic energy vectors (solid biomass-hydrogen). STORAGE OF THERMAL ENERGY. Thermal energy storage technologies. Impact of energy storage systems value-added options.