A C Baker

Tidal Power

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book describes how large tides develop in particular places and how the energy could be extracted by building suitable barrages.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Institution of Engineering & Technology
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 1991
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 566g
• ISBN-13: 9780863411892
• ISBN-10: 0863411894
• Artikelnr.: 50910504

Autorenporträt

Clive Baker is a Director of Binnie & Partners, Consulting Engineers of Redhill, Surrey, UK. Most of his career has been spent on projects involving water in the UK and abroad. In 1977 he became project engineer for Binnie & Partner's import core consultants for the Department of Energy's major study of tidal power in the Severn estuary. Since then he has been responsible for studies of tidal power schemes on the Humber, Cowny and Loughor estuaries in the UK and was involved in studies of Garolim Bay in South Korea. He has also been responsible for various generic studies of tidal power carried out for the Department of Energy. He is currently a consultant for Pakistan Hydro Consultants in Lahore.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Tides
Chapter 2: The operation of a tidal power barrage
Chapter 3: Turbines and generators
Chapter 4: Caissons
Chapter 5: Sluices
Chapter 6: Embankments and plain caissons
Chapter 7: Locks for navigation
Chapter 8: Closure of a barrage
Chapter 9: Mathematical models of water movement
Chapter 10: Environmental aspects
Chapter 11: Economics of tidal power
Chapter 12: Tidal power resources around the world