Showing posts with label Power Plant. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Power Plant. Show all posts

Monday, 16 April 2012

Power Plant Design (Energy and Engineering Science (Abacus Press))

E. E. Khalil, "Power Plant Design (Energy and Engineering Science (Abacus Press))"
Publisher: Taylor & Francis; illustrated edition edition | 1990 | ISBN: 0856265055 | PDF | 135 pages | 1.6 MB


Thermal Power Plants

Mohammad Rasul, "Thermal Power Plants"
Publisher: InTech | ISBN: 9789533079523, 9533079523 | 2012 | PDF | 266 pages | 12.5 MB

Thermal power plants are one of the most important process industries for engineering professionals. Over the past few decades, the power sector has been facing a number of critical issues. However, the most fundamental challenge is meeting the growing power demand in sustainable and efficient ways. Practicing power plant engineers not only look after operation and maintenance of the plant, but also look after a range of activities, including research and development, starting from power generation, to environmental assessment of power plants. The book Thermal Power Plants covers features, operational issues, advantages, and limitations of power plants, as well as benefits of renewable power generation. It also introduces thermal performance analysis, fuel combustion issues, performance monitoring and modelling, plants health monitoring, including component fault diagnosis and prognosis, functional analysis, economics of plant operation and maintenance, and environmental aspects. This book addresses several issues related to both coal fired and gas turbine power plants. The book is suitable for both undergraduate and research for higher degree students, and of course, for practicing power plant engineers.



Saturday, 17 December 2011

Power Plant Life Management and Performance Improvement


John E. Oakey, "Power Plant Life Management and Performance Improvement (Woodhead Publishing Series in Energy)"
Publisher: Woodhead Publishing | ISBN: 184569726X | 2011 | PDF | 704 pages | 17.8 MB

Coal- and gas-based power plants currently supply the largest proportion of the world's power generation capacity. Demands for improved efficiencies and cleaner generation mean that higher temperature combustion and advanced emissions controls need to be incorporated into power plant, which combines with requirements for more diverse fuel compositions (i.e. fuel-flexibility) to intensify plant degradation and put an energy penalty upon the plant's power output. With higher cycles to maintain net power output, the importance of plant protection is likewise intensified, requiring the utilisation of improved materials, systems and components to ensure overall plant performance improvement and life management. This book critically reviews the fundamental degradation mechanisms that affect conventional power plant systems and components, noting mitigation routes alongside monitoring and assessment methods. Maintenance and replacement routes are further extended through chapters on the management and refurbishment of advanced systems and components.


Sunday, 4 December 2011

BOILERS FOR POWER AND PROCESS


Publisher: CRC | ISBN: 1420075365 | edition 2009 | PDF | 745 pages | 16.5 mb 

Written by an experienced boiler professional, this text is an invaluable reference for practicing engineers. After providing the necessary theoretical framework of topics involved in boiler technology, this book describes the practical aspects of industrial and utility boilers, including contemporary boiler constructional and various firing technologies. Broad in scope, this work will assist power consultants looking to purchase boiler plants, while providing operating engineers with a thorough grounding in the mechanics of various boilers. It will also provide designers with state-of-the art information on the newest construction features and design improvements.



Power Plant Characteristics and Costs


Power Plant Characteristics and Costs by Stan Kaplan
N.va Science | 2009 | ISBN: 1607412640 | 130 pages | PDF | 3,5 MB

This book analyses the factors that determine the cost of electricity from new power plants. These factors, including construction costs, fuel expense, environmental regulations, and financing costs can all be affected by government energy, environmental, and economic policies. Government decisions to influence or not influence these factors can largely determine the kind of power plants that are built in the future. This book provides projections of the possible cost of power from new fossil, nuclear, and renewable plants built in 2015, illustrating how different assumptions, such as the availability of federal incentives, change the cost rankings of technologies.

None of the projections are intended to be a 'most likely' case. Future uncertainties preclude firm forecasts. The rankings of the technologies by cost are therefore also an approximation and should not be viewed as definitive estimates of the relative cost-competitiveness of each option. The value of this book is not as a source of point estimates of future power costs, but as a source of insight into the factors that can determine future outcomes, including factors that can be influenced by Congress.


Saturday, 3 December 2011

POWER-PLANT CONTROL AND INSTRUMENTATION: THE CONTROL OF BOILERS AND HRSG SYSTEMS


  • Publisher: Institution of Electrical Engineers
  • Number Of Pages: 256
  • Publication Date: 2000-01
  • Sales Rank: 800402
  • ISBN / ASIN: 0852967659
  • EAN: 9780852967652
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Manufacturer: Institution of Electrical Engineers
  • Studio: Institution of Electrical Engineers
This practically-orientated book aims to bridge the potential comprehension gap between control specialists and power plant engineers which has been created by developments in control technology. Contents include plant and combustion engines, common principles and commercial aspects.

This book describes the systems and equipment used for measuring and controlling boilers and heat-recovery steam-generators used in land and marine power plants and in process industries.