| Description |
1 online resource (257 p.) |
| Contents |
Intro -- Contents -- Chapitre 1 -- Introduction -- Chapitre 2 -- The Systems Engineering Approach -- As Applied to Cogeneration Power Plants -- Life-Cycle Cost and Modeling -- Chapitre 3 -- Considerations for a Cogeneration Facility -- Conventional Power Distribution -- Turnkey or Power Purchase Agreement -- Time and Money -- Territorial Behavior -- Education -- Chapitre 4 -- Site Analysis -- For Both New Projects and Existing Facilities -- Data acquisition -- Data analysis -- Thermal Energy -- Site Tour -- Electrical switchgear -- Noise -- Dust |
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Working with the Local Utility and Interconnection Options -- Supply and Demand -- Generic Cogeneration Power Plant -- Minimum Import Agreement -- Inadvertent Export Agreement -- Full Export, Net Metering, and Dispatch -- Energy Storage -- Island Mode, Intertied and Island Mode Capable, or Off Grid Entirely -- Island mode/off grid -- Transients and starting surges -- Continuity of power -- Timing and balance -- Reliability -- Resynching to the utility -- Fuel security -- High latitudes and geomagnetic storms -- Chapitre 5 -- Power and Heat Sources -- How Is It Done? |
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Reciprocating Internal Combustion Engines -- Derating -- Naturally aspirated or turbocharger-aftercooler? -- Gearbox? -- Cost drivers -- Modeling -- Overhauls -- Oil changes -- Reliability trees -- Emissions levels -- Rich or lean burn? -- Engine and generator efficiency levels -- Internal water pump? -- Internal thermostats: How many, and how much flow do they control? -- Costs -- Combustion Turbines -- Advantages of combustion turbines -- Disadvantages of combustion turbines -- Microturbines -- Advantages of microturbines -- Disadvantages of microturbines -- Concentrating Solar Thermal |
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Parabolic trough thermal collector -- Linear Fresnel solar thermal collector -- Old-school technology with new bells and whistles -- Thermal fluids, including organic Rankine cycle and molten salt -- Costs -- Locations and weather limits -- O&M -- Hybridization -- Passive Solar Thermal-for Low-Grade Heat Recovery -- Photovoltaic -- Field sizing-area versus kilowatt output -- Fixed versus single-axis or dual-axis tracking -- Biomass -- Biogas -- Geothermal -- Wind -- Use where practical -- Highly variable, therefore storage is needed -- Other Sources -- Hydroelectric -- Fuel cell -- Coal |
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Natural gas -- Stirling engines -- Energy Storage -- Electrical energy storage -- Mechanical energy storage -- Thermal energy storage -- N ? Or N + 1? -- Chapitre 6 -- Distributed Generation Performance and Cost Analysis -- Spreadsheet Models -- Generic Model -- Weather -- Cloud cover -- Randomness -- Temperature -- Microgrid Model -- Financial Model -- Reality versus Wishful Thinking -- Chapitre 7 -- Cogeneration Power Plants: Case Studies of Successes and Failures -- Project 1 -- A rough start -- Vortex versus differential pressure -- Broken promises -- First of a kind -- Derating |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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Catalyst issues |
| Subject |
Cogeneration of electric power and heat.
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cogeneration plants.
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Cogeneration of electric power and heat
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781593706470 |
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1593706472 |
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