Sustainable power generation : current status, future challenges, and perspectives /
Sustainable Power Generation: Current Status, Future Challenges, and Perspectives addresses emerging problems faced by the transition to sustainable electricity generation and combines perspectives of engineering and economics to provide a well-rounded overview. This book features an in-depth discus...
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Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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London, United Kingdom :
Academic Press,
[2019]
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Online Access: | View fulltext via EzAccess |
Table of Contents:
- Concept of energy
- Evaluation of energy resources
- Energy system and basic electricity market
- The system boundaries of sustainability
- Sustainable energy development
- Power system and the environment
- Concept of a thermal power plant
- Efficient and clean combustion of fossil fuels within boiler island
- Power island and balance of plant
- Fossil energy economics and project lifecycle
- Nuclear energy
- Modern nuclear power plant
- Development of sustainable nuclear power plant project
- Traditional hydropower plant technology
- Hydropower project lifecycle
- Wind energy
- Solar energy
- Energy from municipal solid waste
- Bioenergy
- Geothermal energy
- Ocean energy conversion
- Can we build a sustainable power generation system?
- Sustainable electricity management beyond generation
- Transitions towards a sustainable power generation system of the future.