
Sustainable Power Generation
Current Status, Future Challenges, and Perspectives
Description
Key Features
- Provides a multidisciplinary, structured approach to electricity generation, focusing on the key areas of technology, business, project management, and sustainability
- Includes analytics and discussions of sustainability metrics, underlying issues, and challenges
- Presents business cases, offering a mix of academic depth and practicality on energy options
Readership
Engineering researchers, practicing engineers, and other technical specialists working in Energy sector. Engineering and energy graduate students. Policy makers and those dealing with political aspects and legal issues. Environment specialists and NGOs. MBA students (especially specializing in general management, sustainability, innovation and energy). Sustainability and innovation managers
Table of Contents
Part 1: Introduction to energy and energy systems
1. Concept of energy
2. Evaluation of energy resources
3. Energy system and basic electricity marketPart 2: Sustainable energy and power generation
4. The system boundaries of sustainability
5. Sustainable Energy Development
6. Power system and the environmentPart 3: Thermal power as a bridging technology towards sustainability
7. Concept of a thermal power plant
8. Efficient and clean combustion of fossil fuels within boiler island
9. Power island and balance of plant
10. Fossil energy economics and project lifecyclePart 4: Past, present, and future of sustainable nuclear power
11. Nuclear energy
12. Modern nuclear power plant
13. Development of sustainable nuclear power plant projectPart 5: Sustainable hydropower
14. Traditional hydropower plant technology
15. Hydropower project lifecyclePart 6: Emerging sustainable energy systems
16. Wind energy
17. Solar energy
18. Energy from municipal solid waste
19. Bioenergy
20. Geothermal energy
21. Ocean energy conversionPart 7: Future of sustainable power generation
22. Can we build a sustainable power generation system?
23. Sustainable electricity management beyond generation
24. Transitions towards a sustainable power generation system of the future
Product details
- No. of pages: 620
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2019
- Published: June 10, 2019
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128170120
- eBook ISBN: 9780128170137