Small Scale Power Generation Handbook (eBook, ePUB)

Towards Distributed Energy Systems
Redaktion: Desideri, Umberto; Ferrari, Lorenzo

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Provides an overview of various small scale sustainable energy technologies, with examples and a clear focus on technological and research issuesBeginning with an overview of the special characteristics, challenges, and opportunities of small scale power plants, this book goes on to provide detailed assessments of a wide variety of renewable energy generation technologies. Solar, biomass, hydroelectric, and geothermal energy generation are all addressed, with assessment of their performance, availability, reliability unique requirements for operation, maintenance, control, and grid integration.Combining technological advances with consideration of economic and application challenges, the Small Scale Power Generation Handbook is an essential resource for graduate students, academic researchers, and industry professionals involved in the design and integration of small scale power generation for sustainable systems. - Examines a range of cutting-edge renewable small scale generation systems, from photovoltaic to hydropower and bioenergy - Assesses the specific advantages and disadvantages of operation, maintenance, integration, and control alongside conventional grid - Applies technological insights to practical scenarios, case studies, and applications, supporting real-world improvements in sustainability and transition

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Elsevier Science & Techn.
• Seitenzahl: 500
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. November 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780128232415
• Artikelnr.: 72235199

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I: General Overview
1. Overview, trends, and future challenges of power production
2. Distributed vs. centralized generation: Advantages and drawbacks
3. Reflections on technical, economic, and systemic aspects of distributed
generation
Part II: Variable renewable energy systems
4. Small-scale concentrated solar power plants
5. Solar photovoltaic power plants
Part III: Programmable renewable energy systems
6. Biomass: Digestion
7. Biomass-Combustion
8. Biomass gasification and pyrolysis
9. Hydropower and pumped-hydro energy storage (PHES)
10. Small-scale geothermal power plants
Part IV: Fuel-fired power plants
11. Micro gas turbines
12. Organic Rankine cycle systems for waste heat recovery in thermal power
plants
Part V: Integration of small-scale power systems
13. Batteries, supercapacitors, and flywheels
14. Electric energy storage based on thermomechanical concepts
15. Power-to-hydrogen systems
16. Power to fuel
17. Flow batteries
Part VI: Emerging technologies
18. Ocean Energies
19. Fuel cells