Power generation handbook : fundamentals of low-emission, high-efficiency power plant operation /
Updated throughout to cover the latest technologies and applications, Power Generation Handbook, Second Edition, focuses on the basics of power generation using gas turbine, steam, wind, solar, co-generation, and combined-cycle power plants. Other essential topics such as calculations, efficient pla...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
McGraw-Hill,
[2012]
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
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| Summary: | Updated throughout to cover the latest technologies and applications, Power Generation Handbook, Second Edition, focuses on the basics of power generation using gas turbine, steam, wind, solar, co-generation, and combined-cycle power plants. Other essential topics such as calculations, efficient plant design, emission limits, monitoring, and the economics of power generation are discussed in detail. A real-world case study illustrates the material presented in this authoritative resource. Coverage includes: all components and subsystems of the various types of gas turbine, steam power, co-generation, combined-cycle, wind turbine, solar power, and generator plants, advantages, applications, performance, and economics of low-emission, high-efficiency power plants, selection, operation, and maintenance of gas turbines, steam turbines, valves, compressors, governing systems, combustors, de-aerators, feedwater heaters, transformers, generators, wind turbines and generators, and solar power stations, Monitoring and control of all power station environmental emissions, Power station performance monitoring and performance enhancement options. |
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| Physical Description: | xxviii, 704 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0071772278 (acid-free paper) 9780071772273 (acid-free paper) |