Power Generation Technologies (3rd Ed.)

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Acid rain; Aero-derivative; Agricultural waste; Alkaline fuel cell; Anaerobic digestion; Arch dam; BWR; Barrage; Battery storage; Binary plant; Biomass; Biomass combustion; Biomass gasification; Bulb turbine; Bunded reservoir; CHP; Carbon capture; Catalytic reduction; Chain reaction; Co-firing; Cogeneration; Combined cycle; Combined heat and power; Compressed air energy storage; Diesel or compression ignition; Direct drive generator; Direct steam geothermal plant; Distributed generation; District heating; Ebb flow generation; Electrochemical reaction; Electrostatic precipitator; Energy arbitrage; Energy crops; Flash steam plant; Flue gas desulphurisation; Fluidised bed combustion; Flywheels; Four-stroke; Fresnel lens; Fuel cell; Gas turbine; Gasification; Geothermal reservoir; Global capacity; Global electricity production; Global warming; Gravity dam; Heat recovery steam generator; Hierarchical network; History; Horizontal axis; Hot rock; Hydrogen economy; Hydropower; Impulse turbine; Inertial confinement; Integrated gasification combined cycle; Intercooling; Internal combustion engine; Landfill; Large hydropower; Levelized cost; Life cycle assessment; Magma; Magnetic confinement; Marine current power; Methanol fuel cell; Microturbine; Molten carbonate fuel cell; Municipal solid waste; NOx emissions; Natural gas; Natural gas reforming; Nuclear fast reactor; Nuclear fission; Nuclear fusion; OTEC; Offshore wind; Onshore wind; Oscillating water column; Osmotic power; Oxyfuel combustion; PEM fuel cell; PWR; Parabolic trough; Phosphoric acid fuel cell; Point absorber; Power-from-waste; Prefabricated caisson; Process heat; Propeller turbine; Pulverised coal; Pumped-storage hydropower; Pyrolysis; Reaction turbine; Redox battery; Refuse-derived fuel; Reheating; Renewable energy

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This revised third edition of Power Generation Technologies explores even more renewable technologies in detail, from traditional fossil fuels and the more established alternatives such as wind and solar power, to emerging renewables such as biomass and geothermal energy. The book also features new expanded chapters on tidal project proposals, tidal bunds, enhanced geothermal technology, fast-moving areas in marine energy and the development of floating wind turbines.Power Generation Technologies is more than just an account of the technologies ? for each method the author explores the economic and environmental costs and risk factors. Each technology is covered using the same basic criteria, so that comparisons between technologies can be made more easily. Those who are involved in planning and delivering energy, including engineers, managers and policy makers, will find a guide through the minefield of maintaining a reliable power supply, meeting targets on greenhouse gas emissions, and addressing economic and social objectives in this book.

1. An introduction to electricity generation
2. Electricity generation and the environment
3. Coal-fired power plants
4. Natural gas-fired gas turbines and combined cycle power plants
5. Piston engine-based power plants
6. Combined heat and power
7. Fuel cells
8. Hydropower
9. Tidal Barrage Power Plants
10. Power system energy storage technologies
11. Wind Power
12. Geothermal Power
13. Solar Power
14. Marine power generation technologies
15. Biomass-based power generation
16. Power from waste
17. Nuclear power
Paul Breeze is a journalist and freelance science and technology writer and consultant in the United Kingdom. He has specialised in power generation technology for the past 30 years. In addition to writing Power Generation Technologies, Second Edition, he has contributed to journals and newspapers such as The Financial Times and The Economist and has written a range of technical management reports covering all the aspects of power generation, transmission and distribution.
  • Explains in hundreds of diagrams how each technology functions in practice
  • Evaluates the economic and environmental viability of each power generation system covered
  • Features fast-advancing renewable and alternative power sources, such as municipal waste and solar options
  • Applies a fresh focus on the evolution of traditional technologies such as natural gas and ‘clean coal’