Power Generation Technologies Ed 3
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Power Generation Technologies Ed 3
Power generation planners, electrical engineers, students and lecturers of Electrical Engineering and Energy, researchers, academics and the technical community involved in the development and implementation of power generation technologies, and power related engineering disciplines
The sustainability of electricity generation from all known energy sources, biomass dedicated energy crops, biomass waste residues, photovoltaic, wind, geothermal, hydropower, coal, gas, and nuclear are compared and discussed in this chapter. The assessment was conducted using sustainability indicators across the life cycle of each technology. The sustainability indicators selected for this assessment were electricity price, efficiency of energy generation, greenhouse gas emissions, availability and limitations of each technology, land and water use requirements, and social impacts. Overall, electricity generation from biomass waste residues ranks more favorably than gas, coal, and nuclear generation. However, biomass dedicated energy crops have poor performance in land and water use requirements as well as low social acceptance, making it the least sustainable electricity generation technology studied. By selecting suitable dedicated energy crops and cultivating them in marginal or degraded soils unsuitable for agricultural production, both land and water requirements could be substantially reduced. This would significantly improve the overall sustainability of biomass dedicated energy crops to above that of coal, gas, and nuclear power generation.
N2 - The sustainability of electricity generation from all known energy sources, biomass dedicated energy crops, biomass waste residues, photovoltaic, wind, geothermal, hydropower, coal, gas, and nuclear are compared and discussed in this chapter. The assessment was conducted using sustainability indicators across the life cycle of each technology. The sustainability indicators selected for this assessment were electricity price, efficiency of energy generation, greenhouse gas emissions, availability and limitations of each technology, land and water use requirements, and social impacts. Overall, electricity generation from biomass waste residues ranks more favorably than gas, coal, and nuclear generation. However, biomass dedicated energy crops have poor performance in land and water use requirements as well as low social acceptance, making it the least sustainable electricity generation technology studied. By selecting suitable dedicated energy crops and cultivating them in marginal or degraded soils unsuitable for agricultural production, both land and water requirements could be substantially reduced. This would significantly improve the overall sustainability of biomass dedicated energy crops to above that of coal, gas, and nuclear power generation.
AB - The sustainability of electricity generation from all known energy sources, biomass dedicated energy crops, biomass waste residues, photovoltaic, wind, geothermal, hydropower, coal, gas, and nuclear are compared and discussed in this chapter. The assessment was conducted using sustainability indicators across the life cycle of each technology. The sustainability indicators selected for this assessment were electricity price, efficiency of energy generation, greenhouse gas emissions, availability and limitations of each technology, land and water use requirements, and social impacts. Overall, electricity generation from biomass waste residues ranks more favorably than gas, coal, and nuclear generation. However, biomass dedicated energy crops have poor performance in land and water use requirements as well as low social acceptance, making it the least sustainable electricity generation technology studied. By selecting suitable dedicated energy crops and cultivating them in marginal or degraded soils unsuitable for agricultural production, both land and water requirements could be substantially reduced. This would significantly improve the overall sustainability of biomass dedicated energy crops to above that of coal, gas, and nuclear power generation.
Power Generation Technologies: Foundations, Design and Advances provides a comprehensive introduction to the latest developments in renewable and non-renewable generation technologies considered at micro and large-scale, and for traditional facility scale and modern distributed power generation systems. Each chapter provides a foundation in the topic enriched with practical solved examples, end chapter exercises and technical references. Provided computer codes can be instrumentalized to investigate practical examples at a granular level. In addition to the fundamental and theoretical discussions, operational and maintenance guidelines for power equipment are provided to prepare students for work in power plants.
The work provides new international standards and regulation for power generation as well as content devoted to the thermo-economics of power generation and power plants. It is supported by a solution manual for end-chapter exercises and a slide show presentation of the book for instructors and students.
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The synchronized operation of power generators is the foundation of electric power network stability and a key to the prevention of undesired power outages and blackouts. Here, we derive the conditions that guarantee synchronization in power networks with inherent generator heterogeneity when subjected to small perturbations, and perform a parametric sensitivity analysis to understand synchronization with varied types of generators. As inverter-based resources, which are the primary interfacing technology for many renewable sources of energy, have supplanted synchronous generators in ever growing numbers, the center of attention on associated integration challenges have resided primarily on the role of declining system inertia. Our results instead highlight the critical role of generator damping in achieving a stable state of synchronization. Additionally, we report the feasibility of operating interconnected electric grids with up to 100% power contribution from inverter-based renewable generation technologies. Our study has important implications as it sets the basis for the development of advanced control architectures and grid optimization methods that ensure synchronization and further pave the path towards the decarbonization of the electric power sector.
The decarbonization of power networks is an ongoing global effort that is rapidly accelerating with the growing recognition that it is an essential keystone to achieve a sustainable energy future1. Electric power network decarbonization will require the large-scale deployment of carbon-free technologies, with variable renewable power generation expected to increase greatly. Among the variable renewable power generation technologies, solar photovoltaics (PV) and wind power plants are now cost competitive with conventional generation in most locations and the cost of energy production using renewable power plants continues to decline2. Accordingly, it is anticipated that variable renewable generation technologies will continue to dominate the new installed generation capacity over the next two decades, spurring a transition to 100% renewable-based power networks with a substantially altered landscape for the associated planning, management, stability, and control approaches3,4,5. This transition is already underway and accelerating quickly. In 2020, solar and wind resources accounted for more than 72% of all new electricity generation capacity globally6. This set a new record for the expansion of renewable installations by more than 45% from 20197. In the US alone, a new record was set in 2020 for renewable expansion as a total of 80% of new electricity generation capacity installed came from solar and wind resources, with solar accounting for 43%8 and 37% for wind9 of all new generation capacity installed. It is expected that solar and wind will continue to break deployment records around the globe, with renewable resources anticipated to account for approximately 90% of new generation capacity in 2021 and 202210. In the US alone, it is anticipated that 70% of new capacity installed in 2021 will be solar and wind power plants11.
One of the main challenges pertaining to the integration of variable renewable energy resources into power networks is that they are integrated with a power electronic interface known as an inverter; they are therefore commonly referred to as inverter-based resources (IBRs). This stands in contrast to most conventional power plants where electricity is generated using synchronous generators. These synchronous generators are being supplanted by IBRs, and as a result, many of the fundamental assumptions that provide the foundation for the contemporary maintenance of power network stability, approaches based on the characteristics of synchronous generators, may no longer be valid for power networks with very high levels of IBRs. This shift is due to the associated paucity of synchronous generators and increased heterogeneity of constituting parameters across the networks of this class as a result of the adaptive inertia and damping that the IBR offer. In this paper, we study synchronization in electric power networks with high levels of IBR generation, at levels up to 100%. This is a dynamic problem, with foundations to the stable operation of interconnected power network, whose impetus is to understand whether a network remains stable following a disturbance. 041b061a72