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Geothermal power plants : principles, applications, case studies, and environmental impact /
Now in its 4th edition, this single resource covers all aspects of the utilization of geothermal energy for power generation using fundamental scientific and engineering principles. Its practical emphasis is enhanced by the use of global case studies from real plants and applications from around the...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Butterworth-Heinemann, imprint of Elsevier,
2016.
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| Edición: | Fourth edition. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Resource identification and development
- Geology of geothermal regions
- Exploration strategies and techniques
- Geothermal well drilling
- Reservoir engineering
- 2. Geothermal power generating systems
- Single-flash steam power plants
- Double- and triple-flash steam power plants
- Dry-steam power plants
- Binary cycle power plants
- Advanced geothermal energy conversion systems
- Exergy analysis applied to geothermal power systems
- 3. Geothermal power plant case studies
- Larderello dry-steam power plants, Tuscany, Italy
- The geysers dry-steam power plants, Sonoma and Lake Counties, California, USA
- Geothermal power plants of New Zealand
- Geothermal power plants of Indonesia
- Geothermal power plants in Central America and the Caribbean
- Geothermal power plants in Nevada, USA
- Heber binary plants, Imperial Valley, California, USA
- Magmamax binary power plant, East Mesa, Imperial Valley, California, USA
- Nesjavellir and Hellisheidi Plants, Iceland
- Raft River Plants, Idaho, USA
- Geothermal power plants in Turkey
- Enhanced geothermal systems
- projects and plants
- Enironmental iimpact of geothermal power plants.