Waste-to-Energy Advanced Cycles and New Design Concepts for Efficient Power Plants /

• Main Author: Branchini, Lisa (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Subjects: Energy.; Renewable energy resources.; Electric power production.; Renewable energy sources.; Alternate energy sources.; Green energy industries.; Waste management.; Renewable and Green Energy.; Energy Technology.; Waste Management/Waste Technology.

·         Explains the basics of Waste-To-Energy (WTE) conversion processes and the technologies currently in use for WTE ·         Provides layout and steam cycle adopted parameters for WTE plants ·         Examines new and advanced integrated WTE cycles for energy efficiency optimization ·        ...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Municipal Waste Overview
• Waste-To-Energy
• Waste-To-Energy steam cycle
• Waste-To-Energy and Gas Turbine: Hybrid Combined Cycle concept
• WTE-GT steam/water side integration: thermodynamic analysis on one pressure level
• Performance indexes and output allocation for Multi-Fuel energy systems
• Specific application cases with GT commercial units.