Principles of Solar Gas Turbines for Electricity Generation

• Main Author: Madhlopa, Amos (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Green Energy and Technology,
• Subjects: Renewable energy resources.; Thermodynamics.; Heat engineering.; Heat transfer.; Mass transfer.; Industrial management-Environmental aspects.; Renewable and Green Energy.; Engineering Thermodynamics, Heat and Mass Transfer.; Sustainability Management.

This is the first book dedicated to solar gas turbines, providing fundamental knowledge and state-of-the-art developments in the field. A gas turbine is a heat engine in which a mixture of fuel and air is burned in a chamber that is an integral part of the flow circuit of the working fluid. The burn...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Main components and thermodynamic cycles of solarized gas turbines
• 3.Configuration of solarised gas turbines
• 4. Design, testing and installation of solarised gas turbines
• 5. Economics of solarized gas turbines
• Appendices.