2 Books found
CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group Books
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Energy Portfolios: Customization and Management
Report on energy as of one of the most important issues of the twenty-first century. It discuses how countries deal with the composition of their energy portfolio, consistent with the endowment of energy resources, technologies and social, economical and environmental impacts, like CO2 emissions. In detail, the diversification of energy sources is treated. The role of non-carbon emitting sources (e.g. nuclear power) and renewable energy sources ...
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Applied Hydraulic Transients: For Hydropower Plants and Pumping Stations
The book treats the problem of transient hydraulic computation, for hydroelectric plants and pumping stations, especially by numerical methods and consists of the following chapters: The waterhammer phenomenon in hydraulic systems under pressure; Experimental results concerning the waterhammer; Protection of pumping stations against waterhammer; Hydraulic resonance in hydroelectric power plant and pumping stations; Mass oscillation in hydraulic ...