Our lives and the functioning of modern societies are intimately
intertwined with electricity consumption. We owe our quality of
life to electricity. However, the electricity generation industry
is partly responsible for some of the most pressing challenges we
currently face, including climate change and the pollution of
natural environments, energy inequality, and energy insecurity.
Maintaining our standard of living while addressing these problems
is the ultimate challenge for the future of humanity. The objective
of this book is to equip engineering and science students and
professionals to tackle this task. Written by an expert with over
25 years of combined academic and industrial experience in the
field, this comprehensive textbook covers both fossil fuels and
renewable power generation technologies. For each topic,
fundamental principles, historical backgrounds, and
state-of-the-art technologies are covered. Conventional power
production technologies, steam power plants, gas turbines, and
combined cycle power plants are presented. For steam power plants,
the historical background, thermodynamic principles, steam
generators, combustion systems, emission reduction technologies,
steam turbines, condensate-feedwater systems, and cooling systems
are covered in separate chapters. Similarly, the historical
background and thermodynamic principles of gas turbines, along with
comprehensive discussions on compressors, combustors, and turbines,
are presented and then followed with combined cycle power plants.
The second half of the book deals with renewable energy sources,
including solar photovoltaic systems, solar thermal power plants,
wind turbines, ocean energy systems, and geothermal power plants.
For each energy source, the available energy and its variations,
historical background, operational principles, basic calculations,
current and future technologies, and environmental impacts are
presented. Finally, energy storage systems as required technologies
to address the intermittent nature of renewable energy sources are
covered. While the book has been written with the needs of
undergraduate and graduate college students in mind, professionals
interested in widening their understanding of the field can also
benefit from it.
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