Hydroelectricity and power electronics : environmental impacts, emerging technologies, and challenges / Lucille Burke, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Burke, Lucille, editor.

Series:

Electronics and telecommunications research.

Electronics and Telecommunications Research

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hydroelectric power plants.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (279 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Nova Science Publishers, Inc., 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In modern society, the utility power grid is supposed to guarantee load management, demand side management, as well as to use the market price of electricity and forecasting of energy (e.g., based on wind and solar renewable sources) in order to optimize the whole electrical distribution system. An optimized power system is expected to have the following characteristics: high efficiency, high availability, good quality of service and high level of security, which leads to the concepts of distributed generation and smart-grid. This book discusses different emerging technologies, principles and

Contents:

""HYDROELECTRICITY AND POWER ELECTRONICS: ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS, EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES AND CHALLENGES""; ""HYDROELECTRICITY AND POWER ELECTRONICS: ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS, EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES AND CHALLENGES""; ""Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data""; ""CONTENTS""; ""PREFACE""; ""Chapter 1: HYDROPOWER DEVELOPMENT IN SERBIA: CURRENT STATE, PERSPECTIVES AND CHALLENGES""; ""ABSTRACT""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""2. LEGAL, INSTITUTIONAL AND PLANNING FRAMEWORK FOR THE PRODUCTION AND EXPLOITATION OF HYDROPOWER IN SERBIA""; ""3. NATURAL AND UTILIZED HYDROPOWER POTENTIAL OF SERBIA""

""4. MODERNIZATION AND UPGRADING OF EXISTING HYDROPOWER PLANTS""""5. FUTURE HYDROPOWER DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS""; ""6. ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""REFERENCES""; ""Chapter 2: THE USE OF HYDROPOWER PLANTS FOR ELECTRICITY GENERATION IN THE EUROPEAN REGION""; ""ABSTRACT""; ""GENERAL OVERVIEW""; ""TYPES OF HYDROPOWER PLANTS""; ""THE LIFECYCLE OF HYDROPOWER PLANTS""; ""THE USE OF HYDROPOWER PLANTS FOR ELECTRICITY GENERATION IN THE EUROPEAN REGION""; ""INVESTMENT IN HYDROPOWER PLANTS""; ""BENEFITS AND RELEVANCE OF THE USE OF HYDROPOWER PLANTS FOR THE GENERATION OF ELECTRICITY""

""THE FUTURE OF THE HYDROPOWER SECTOR IN THE EUROPEAN REGION""""NEGATIVE IMPACT ON THE ENVIRONMENT AND ON THE POPULATION DUE TO THE USE OF HYDROPOWER PLANTS FOR ELECTRICITY GENERATION""; ""SOME ADDITIONAL CONSIDERATIONS""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""REFERENCES""; ""Chapter 3: RISK MANAGEMENT OF HYDROPOWERP ROJECTS IN SOUTHWEST CHINA""; ""ABSTRACT""; ""1. INTRODUCTION""; ""2. NEED TO UNDERSTAND OVERALL ASPECTS OF RISK MANAGEMENT FOR HYDROPOWER PROJECTS""; ""3. EMPIRICAL RESEARCH METHODOLOGY""; ""4. SURVEY RESULTS AND ANALYSIS""; ""5. CASE STUDY OF THREE GORGES PROJECT""

""6. PRACTICAL STRATEGIES ON SYSTEMATICALLY MANAGING THE RISKS OF HYDROPOWER PROJECTS IN SOUTHWEST CHINA""""CONCLUSION""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""REFERENCES""; ""Chapter 4: HARDWARE-IN-THE-LOOP SIMULATIONS AND CONTROL SYSTEMS BASED ON FPGA FOR POWER ELECTRONICS IN MICROGRIDS""; ""ABSTRACT""; ""1. INTRODUCTION""; ""2. HARDWARE-IN-THE-LOOP FOR MICROGRID SIMULATIONS""; ""3. HILES-RCP FOR HARDWARE-IN-THE-LOOP SIMULATIONS""; ""4. HARDWARE-IN-THE-LOOP MODEL OF MICROGRID""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""REFERENCES""; ""Chapter 5: CASCADE CONVERTERS FOR WIDE CONVERSION RATIOS""; ""ABSTRACT""

""1.1. INTRODUCTION""""1.2. CONVENTIONAL CONVERTERS""; ""1.3. OTHER PROPOSED CONVERTER TOPOLOGIES""; ""1.4. QUADRATIC CONVERTERS""; ""1.5. CASCADE BUCK AND BOOST CONVERTERS""; ""1.6. SWITCHING STATE SPACE MODELS OF CASCADE CONVERTERS""; ""1.7. AVERAGE MODELING OF CASCADE CONVERTERS""; ""1.8. LINEAR AVERAGE MODELS FOR CASCADE CONVERTERS""; ""1.9. SUMMARY OF MODELS""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""REFERENCES""; ""Chapter 6: AlGaN/GaN BASED-POWER MOSFET WITH HIGHLY RESISTIVE UNDOPED BUFFER LAYER""; ""ABSTRACT""; ""1. INTRODUCTION""; ""2. FABRICATION OF ALGAN/GAN-BASED MOSFET""

""3. GROWTH OF SEMI-INSULATION GAN BUFFER LAYER""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-63321-737-X

OCLC:

891150312