Solar Power Generation is a concise, up-to-date, and readable guide providing an introduction to the leading renewable power generation technology. It includes detailed descriptions of solar photovoltaic and solar thermal generation systems, and demystifies the relevant solar energy technology functions in practice while also exploring economic and environmental risk factors. Engineers, managers, policymakers, and those involved in planning and delivering energy resources will find this reference a valuable guide to help establish a reliable power supply to address social and economic objectives.
- Focuses on the evolution and developments in solar energy generation
- Evaluates the economic and environmental viability of the systems with concise diagrams and accessible explanations
- Demystifies the relevant solar energy technology functions in practice
- Explores economic and environmental risk factors
Introduction
1 Solar Energy Resource
2 Solar Sites and Land Resources
3 Solar Power generation technologies
4 Solar Thermal power generation
5 Gas turbine development
6 Advanced gas turbine cycles
Reheating
Intercooling
Recuperation
Mass injection
7 Combined Cycle power plants
8 Micro-Turbines
9 Emission Control for gas tower power plants
Nitrogen Oxide
Carbon Monoxide
Carbon Dioxide
10 Cost of Gas Turbine-Based power generation
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