Power Generation Handbook 2/E

Power Generation Handbook 2/E

<h4>THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO POWER GENERATION--FULLY REVISED</h4> <p>Updated throughout to cover the latest technologies and applications, <i>Power Generation Handbook</i>, Second Edition, focuses on the basics of power generation using gas turbine, steam, wind, solar, co-generation, and combined-cycle power plants. Other essential topics such as calculations, efficient plant design, emission limits, monitoring, and the economics of power generation are discussed in detail. A real-world case study illustrates the material presented in this authoritative resource.</p> <p><b>Coverage includes:</b></p> <ul> <li>All components and subsystems of the various types of gas turbine, steam power, co-generation, combined-cycle, wind turbine, solar power, and generator plants</li> <li>Advantages, applications, performance, and economics of low-emission, high-efficiency power plants</li> <li>Selection, operation, and maintenance of gas turbines, steam turbines, valves, compressors, governing systems, combustors, de-aerators, feedwater heaters, transformers, generators, wind turbines and generators, and solar power stations</li> <li>Monitoring and control of all power station environmental emissions</li> <li>Power station performance monitoring and performance enhancement options</li> </ul>