Advanced power generation systems / Ibrahim Dincer, Calin Zamfirescu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dinçer, İbrahim, 1964- author.

Zamfirescu, Calin, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Thermodynamics.

Thermodynamic cycles.

Energy development.

Renewable energy sources.

Sustainable development.

Electric power production.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (657 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, Netherlands ; Oxford, England ; Waltham, Massachusetts : Elsevier, 2014.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Advanced Power Generation Systems examines the full range of advanced multiple output thermodynamic cycles that can enable more sustainable and efficient power production from traditional methods, as well as driving the significant gains available from renewable sources. These advanced cycles can harness the by-products of one power generation effort, such as electricity production, to simultaneously create additional energy outputs, such as heat or refrigeration. Gas turbine-based, and industrial waste heat recovery-based combined, cogeneration, and trigeneration cycles are considered in depth, along with Syngas combustion engines, hybrid SOFC/gas turbine engines, and other thermodynamically efficient and environmentally conscious generation technologies. The uses of solar power, biomass, hydrogen, and fuel cells in advanced power generation are considered, within both hybrid and dedicated systems. The detailed energy and exergy analysis of each type of system provided by globally recognized author Dr. Ibrahim Dincer will inform effective and efficient design choices, while emphasizing the pivotal role of new methodologies and models for performance assessment of existing systems. This unique resource gathers information from thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, heat transfer, and energy system design to provide a single-source guide to solving practical power engineering problems. The only complete source of info on the whole array of multiple output thermodynamic cycles, covering all the design options for environmentally-conscious combined production of electric power, heat, and refrigeration Offers crucial instruction on realizing more efficiency in traditional power generation systems, and on implementing renewable technologies, including solar, hydrogen, fuel cells, and biomass Each cycle description clarified through schematic diagrams, and linked to sustainable development scenarios through detailed energy, exergy, and efficiency analyses Case studies and examples demonstrate how novel systems and performance assessment methods function in practice

Contents:

Fundamentals of thermodynamics

Energy, environment, and sustainable development

Fossil fuels and alternatives

Hydrogen fuel cell systems

Conventional power generating systems

Nuclear power generation

Renewable-energy-based power generating systems

Integrated power generating systems

Multigeneration systems

Novel power generating systems.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780123838612

0123838614

OCLC:

884016280