978-1-4200-4431-7
Energy Conversion
Edited by D. Yogi Goswami and Frank Kreith
Editorial: CRC Press Fecha de publicación: 06/07/2007 Páginas: 936Formato: Hardback 254 x 178 mm
Offering a comprehensive overview of energy conversion technologies, Energy Conversion surveys the latest advances in energy conversion from a wide variety of currently available energy sources. The book describes energy sources such as fossil fuels, biomass including refuse-derived boimass fuels, nuclear, solar radiation, wind, geothermal, and ocean abnd provides the terminology and units used for each energy resource and their equivalence. The author provides an overview of the steam power cycle, gas turbines, internal combustion engines, hydraulic turbines, stirling engines, advanced fossil fuel power systems, and combined-cycle power plants.
• Mechanical Engineering Series
Energy
Thermodynamics
Combustion Engineering
Reference
Professional