Gas and Steam Turbine Power Plants
Applications in Sustainable Power

Featuring real-world data and hands-on, implementable techniques, this is an in-depth guide to sustainable electric power generation.

S. Can Gülen (Author)

9781108837910, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 19 October 2023

500 pages
25.1 x 17.4 x 3.3 cm, 1.08 kg

'This excellent book on electric power production focuses on how the importance of electric power generation to meet demand requires the continued use of equipment that can produce power when it is needed. … Recommended.' L. E. Erickson, CHOICE

Explore sustainable electric power generation technology, from first principles to cutting-edge systems, in this in-depth resource. Including energy storage, carbon capture, hydrogen and hybrid systems, the detailed coverage includes performance estimation, operability concerns, economic trade-off and other intricate analyses, supported by implementable formulae, real-world data and tried-and-tested quantitative and qualitative estimating techniques. Starting from basic concepts and key equipment, this book builds to precise analysis of balance of plant operation through data and methods gained from decades of hands-on design, testing, operation and trouble-shooting. Gain the knowledge you need to operate in conditions beyond standard settings and environment, with thorough descriptions of off-design operations. Novel technologies become accessible with stripped-back descriptions and physics-based calculations. This book is an ideal companion for engineers in the gas turbine and electric power field.

1. Introduction
2. Prologue
3. Equipment
4. Operation
5. Energy storage
6. Compressed air energy storage
7. Hybrid systems
8. Hydrogen
9. Nuclear power
10. Supercritical CO2
11. Carbon capture
12. Concentrated solar power
13. Coal redux
14. A technology leap?
15. Epilogue
16. Odds and ends.

Subject Areas: Aerospace & aviation technology [TRP], Energy technology & engineering [TH], Mechanics of fluids [TGMF], Sustainability [RNU]