Contributor
Goswami, D. Yogi.
Imprint:Boca Raton : Taylor & Francis, 2008.
Description1 vol., varied paging : ill. ; 26 cm.
Note:1. Introduction / D. Yogi Goswami -- 1.1. Energy use by sectors -- 1.2. Electrical capacity additions to 2030 -- 1.3. Present status and potential of renewable energy -- 1.4. Role of energy conservation -- 1.5. Energy conversion technologies -- sect. 1. Energy resources -- 2. Fossil ruels -- 2.1. Coal / Robert Ruether -- 2.2. Environmental aspects / Richard Banjura -- 2.3. Oil / Philip C. Crouse -- 2.4. Natural gas / Philip C. Crouse -- 3. Biomass energy / Ralph P. Overend and Lynn L. Wright -- 3.1. Biomass feedstock technologies -- 3.2. Biomass conversion technologies -- 3.3. Nuclear resources / James S. Tulenko -- 4.1. The nuclear fuel cycle -- 4.2. Processing of nuclear fuel -- 5. Solar energy resources / D. Yogi Goswami -- 5.1. Solar energy availability -- 5.2. Earth-Sun relationships -- 5.3. Solar time -- 5.4. Solar radiation on a surface -- 5.5. Solar radiation on a horizontal surface -- 5.6. Solar radiation on a tilted surface -- 5.7. Solar radiation measurements -- 5.8. Solar radiation data -- 6. Wind energy resources / Dale E. Berg -- 6.1. Wind origins -- 6.2. Wind power -- 6.3. Wind shear -- 6.4 Wind energy resource -- 6.5. Wind characterization -- 6.6. Wind energy potential -- 7. Geothermal energy / Joel L. Renner and Marshall J. Reed -- 7.1. Heat flow -- 7.2. Types of geothermal systems -- 7.3. Geothermal energy potential -- 7.4. Geothermal applications -- 7.5. Environmental constraints -- 7.6. Operating conditions -- sect. 2. Energy conversion -- 8. Steam power plant / John Kern -- 8.1. Introduction -- 8.2. Rankine cycle analysis -- 8.3. Topping and bottoming cycles -- 8.4. Steam boilers -- 8.5 Steam turbines -- 8.6. Heat exchangers, pumps, and other cycle components -- 8.7. Generators -- 9. Gas turbines / Steven I. Freedman -- 9.1. Overview -- 9.2. History -- 9.3. Fuels and firing -- 9.4. Efficiency -- 9.5. Gas turbine cycles -- 9.6. Cycle configurations -- 9.7. Components used in complex cycles -- 9.8 Upper temperature limit -- 9.9. Materials -- 9.10. Combustion -- 9.11. Mechanical product features -- 10. Internal combustion engines / David E. Klett and Elsayed M. Afify -- 10.1. Introduction -- 10.2. Engine types and basic operation -- 10.3. Air standard power cycles -- 10.4. Actual cycles -- 10.5. Combustion in IC engines -- 10.6. Exhaust emissions -- 10.7. Fuels for SI and CI engines -- 10.8. Intake pressurization-supercharging and turbocharging -- 11. Hydraulic turbines / Roger E.A. Arndt -- 11.1. General description -- 11.2. Principles of operation -- 11.3. Factors involved in selecting a turbine -- 11.4. Performance evaluation -- 11.5. Numerical simulation -- 11.6. Field tests -- 12. Stirling engines / William B. Stine -- 12.1. Introduction -- 12.2. Thermodynamic implementation of the Stirling cycle -- 12.3. Mechanical implementation of the Stirling cycle -- 12.4. Future of the Stirling engine -- 13. Advanced fossil fuel power systems / Anthony F. Armor -- 13.1. Introduction -- 13.2. Fuels for electric power generation in the U.S. -- 13.3. Coal as a fuel for electric power (World Coal Institute 2000) -- 13.4. Clean coal technology development -- 13.5. Pulverized-coal plants -- 13.6. Emissions controls for pulverized coal plants -- 13.7. Fluidized bed plants -- 13.8. Gasification plants -- 13.9. Combustion turbine plants -- 13.10. Central station options for new generation -- 13.11. Summary -- 14. Combined-cycle power plants / Alex Lezuo -- 14.1. Combined-cycle concepts -- 14.2. Combined-cycle thermodynamics -- 14.3. Combined-cycle arrangements -- 14.4. Combined heat and power from combined-cycle plants -- 14.5. Environmental aspects -- 15. Energy storage technologies / Roel Hammerschlag and Christopher P. Schaber -- 15.1. Overview of storage technologies -- 15.2. Principal forms of stored energy -- 15.3. Applications of energy storage -- 15.4. Specifying energy storage devices -- 15.5. Specifying fuels -- 15.6. Direct electric storage -- 15.7. Electrochemical energy storage -- 15.8. Mechanical energy storage -- 15.9. Direct thermal storage -- 15.10. Thermochemical energy storage -- 16. Nuclear power technologies / Edwin A. Harvego and Kenneth D. Kok -- 16.1. Introduction -- 16.2. Development of current power-reactor technologies -- 16.3. Next-generation technologies -- 16.4. Generation-IV technologies -- 16.5. Fuel cycle -- 16.6. Nuclear waste -- 16.7. Nuclear power economics -- 16.8. Conclusions -- 17. Nuclear fusion / Thomas E. Shannon -- 17.1. Introduction -- 17.2. Fusion fuel -- 17.3. Confinement concepts -- 17.4. Tokamak reactor development -- 17.5. Fusion energy conversion and transport -- 18. Solar thermal energy conversion -- 18.1. Active solar heating systems / T. Agami Reddy -- 18.2. Solar heat for industrial processes / Riccardo Battisti, Hans Schweiger, and Werner Weiss -- 18.3. Passive solar heating, cooling, and daylighting / Jeffrey H. Morehouse -- 18.4. Solar cooling / D. Yogi Goswami and Sanjay Vijayaraghavan -- 19. Concentrating solar thermal power / Manuel Romero-Alvarez and Eduardo Zarza -- 19.1. Introduction and context -- 19.2. Solar concentration and CSP systems -- 19.3. Solar concentrator beam quality -- 19.4. Solar concentration ratio : principles and limitations of CSP systems -- 19.5. Solar thermal power plant technologies -- 19.6. Parabolic trough solar thermal power plants -- 19.7. Central receiver solar thermal power plants -- 19.8. Volumetric atmospheric receivers : PHOEBUS and Solair -- 19.9. Solar air preheating -- 19.10. Dish/Stirling systems -- 19.11. Market opportunities -- 19.12. Conclusions -- 20. Photovoltaics fundamentals, technology, and application -- 20.1. Photovoltaics / Roger Messenger and D. Yogi Goswami -- 20.2. Thin-film PV technology / Hari M. Upadhyaya, Takhir M. Razykov, and Ayodhya N. Tiwari -- 20.3. Concentrating PV technologies / Roland Winston, Robert McConnell, and D. Yogi Goswami -- 21. Wind energy conversion / Dale E. Berg -- 21.1. Introduction -- 21.2. Wind turbine aerodynamics -- 21.3. Wind turbine loads -- 21.4. Wind turbine structural dynamic considerations -- 21.5. Peak power limitation -- 21.6. Turbine subsystems -- 21.7. Other wind-energy conversion considerations -- 22. Biomass conversion processes for energy recovery -- 22.1. Energy recovery by anaerobic digestion / Massoud Kayhanian and George Tchobanoglous -- 22.2. Power generation / Robert C. Brown -- 22.3. Biofuels / Robert C. Brown -- 23. Geothermal power generation / Kevin Kitz -- 23.1. Introduction -- 23.2. Definition and use of geothermal energy -- 23.3. Requirements for commercial geothermal power production -- 23.4. Exploration and assessment of geothermal resources -- 23.5. Management of the geothermal resource for power production -- 23.6. Geothermal steam supply (from wellhead to turbine) -- 23.7. Geothermal power production-steam turbine technologies -- 23.8. Geothermal power production-binary power plant technologies -- 23.9. Environmental impact -- 23.10. Additional information on geothermal energy -- 24. Waste-to-energy combustion / Charles O. Velzy and Leonard M. Grillo -- 24.1. Introduction -- 24.2. Waste quantities and characteristics -- 24.3. Design of WTE facilities -- 24.4. Air pollution control facilities -- 24.5. Performance -- 24.6. Costs -- 24.7. Status of other technologies -- 24.8. Future issues and trends -- 25. Ocean energy technology / Desikan Bharathan and Federica Zangrando -- 25.1. Ocean thermal energy conversion -- 25.2. Tidal power -- 25.3. Wave power -- 25.4. Concluding remarks -- 26. Fuel cells / Xianguo Li -- 26.1. Introduction -- 26.2. Principle of operation for fuel cells -- 26.3. Typical fuel cell systems -- 26.4. Performance of fuel cells -- 26.5. Fuel cell electrode processes -- 26.6. Cell connection and stack design considerations -- 26.7. Six major types of fuel cells -- 26.8. Summary -- 27. Direct energy conversion -- 27.1. Thermionic energy conversion / Mysore L. Ramalingam -- 27.2. Thermoelectric power conversion / Jean-Pierre Fleurial -- 27.3. Magnetohydrodynamic power generation / William D. Jackson -- Appendices / Nitin Goel -- Appendix 1. The international system of units, fundamental constants, and conversion factors -- Appendix 2. Solar radiation data -- Appendix 3. Properties of gases, vapors, liquids, and solids -- Appendix 4. Ultimate analysis of biomass fuels.
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