Industrial Power Books
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Our Renewable Future - Laying the Path for One Hundred Percent Clean Energy
The next few decades will see a profound energy transformation throughout the world. By the end of the century (and perhaps sooner), we will shift from fossil fuel dependence to rely primarily on renewable sources like solar, wind, biomass, and geothermal power. Driven by the need to avert catastrophic climate change and by the depletion of easily accessible oil, coal, and natural gas, this ...
By Island Press
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Radiation Embrittlement of Nuclear Reactor Pressure Vessel Steels: An International Review
STP 909 has sixteen peer-reviewed papers divided into four sections that reflect changes in the nuclear power industry occurring since 1981, including escalating capital requirements and a growing worldwide dependence on nuclear power for electricity production. The four sections of this book are: Overview of National Programs Surveillance and Other Radiation Embrittlement Studies ...
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Analysis of Reactor Vessel Radiation Effects Surveillance Programs
Many factors have combined to accelerate the programs of the members of the electric power industry for the erection of power stations using nuclear ...
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Forklift Basics: Safe From The Start (Handbook)
Help your operators understand the factors that affect forklift balance and maneuverability.This handbook provides details on the powered industrial truck, from the way it's constructed to the way it works. It will help your operators understand the factors that affect forklift balance and maneuverability.Number of pages can vary though most handbooks are 16 pages in length and include a tear-out ...
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Energy Decisions and the Environment
Planning, operating, and policy making in the electric utility and natural gas sectors involves important trade-offs among economic, social, and environmental criteria. These trade-offs figure prominently in ongoing debates about how to meet growing energy demands and how to restructure the world's power industry. Energy Decisions and the Environment: A Guide to the Use of Multicriteria ...
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Fuel Cell Technologies: State And Perspectives
Fuel Cells have become a potentially highly efficient sustainable source of energy and electricity for an ever-demanding power hungry world. The two main types of fuel cells ripe for commercialisation are the high temperature solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) and the low temperature polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell (PEM). The commercial uses of which include, but are not limited to, military, ...
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Parabolic Trough Report 2014: Cost, Performance and Thermal Storage
Parabolic Trough technology currently accounts for 95% of the global installed CSP share, totalling 2657 MW. Market activity for the technology is set to proliferate into 19 markets - so arm yourself with the latest techno-economic analysis and inter-market benchmarking in the CSP Today Parabolic Trough Report 2014: Cost, Performance and Thermal ...
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Effects of Deregulation on Safety
Because of the dramatic changes that economic deregulation has caused in the electricity industry and the widespread social concern about nuclear power safety, Effects of Deregulation on Safety is extremely timely. Effects of Deregulation on Safety uses case studies of the effects of deregulation on the U.S. air and rail industries and the United Kingdom nuclear power industry, as a basis for ...
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Heat Transfer Enhancement of Heat Exchangers
Heat transfer enhancement in single-phase and two-phase flow heat exchangers in important in such industrial applications as power generating plant, process and chemical industry, heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration systems, and the cooling of electronic equipment. Energy savings are of primary importance in the design of such systems, leading to more efficient, ...
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Power Systems Restructuring
The restructuring of the power industry has already begun and will be fully implemented in the United States and many other countries by the beginning of the 21st century. Unlike other sectors of the economy, restructuring of the utility industry requires a careful analysis because of the nature of the real-time operations. This book addresses the problems inherent in such a task in a ...
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Designing Competitive Electricity Markets
As electric restructuring spreads rapidly across countries and states, leading industry experts are increasingly concerned that in many instances policy makers are pushing their proposals into practice more quickly than policy analysts can provide answers to difficult questions of market design. In this process, different structures for organizing this industry are evolving without a firm ...
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Fuel Cell Technologies: State And Perspectives
Fuel Cells have become a potentially highly efficient sustainable source of energy and electricity for an ever-demanding power hungry world. The two main types of fuel cells ripe for commercialisation are the high temperature solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) and the low temperature polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell (PEM). The commercial uses of which include, but are not limited to, military, ...
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Report 4130: The Bioenergy Industry
Report 4130: The Bioenergy Industry examines the biopower sector, including companies in biomass gasification, anaerobic digestion, landfill-gas-to-energy and conventional combustion. It also covers the ethanol sector and emerging algae and cellulosic technology. This 67-page report includes charts of growth forecasts for the U.S. bioenergy industry, global ethanol production, lists of top U.S. ...
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The Next Generation of Electric Power Unit Commitment Models
Over the years, the electric power industry has been using optimization methods to help them solve the unit commitment problem. The result has been savings of tens and perhaps hundreds of millions of dollars in fuel costs. Things are changing, however. Optimization technology is improving, and the industry is undergoing radical restructuring. Consequently, the role of commitment models is ...
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Computational Auction Mechanisms for Restructured Power Industry Operation
'Electric energy must be treated as a commodity which can be bought, sold, and traded, taking into account its time- and space-varying values and costs.' Spot Pricing of Electricity, Schweppe et al, 1988. Computational Auction Mechanisms for Restructured Power Industry Operation outlines the application of auction methods for all aspects of power system operation, primarily for a ...
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State Estimation in Electric Power Systems
State Estimation in Electric Power Systems: A Generalized Approach provides for the first time a comprehensive introduction to the topic of state estimation at an advanced textbook level. The theory as well as practice of weighted least squares (WLS) is covered with significant rigor. Included are an in depth analysis of power flow basics, proper justification of Stott's decoupled method, ...
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Powered High-Lift Trucks: Order-Picker Safety (Handbook)
Will help you comply with OSHA's Final Powered Industrial Truck Standard (1910.178).Will help you comply with OSHA's Final Powered Industrial Truck Standard (1910.178).Number of pages can vary though most handbooks are 16 pages in length and include a tear-out quiz. Handbooks must be purchased in packs of 10. When ordering, enter the number of packs you would like to purchase. For example, if you ...
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Forklift Fundamentals: Get The Facts (Video)
Covers powered industrial trucks, power plant inspections and equipment inspections.This program will familiarize your workers with the basics of safe forklift practices and will help your company comply with OSHA's Powered Industrial Truck Standard (1910.178). It covers: powered industrial trucks power plant inspections equipment inspectionsIncludes 10 free ...
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Uncertainty in the Electric Power Industry
Around the world, liberalization and privatization in the electricity industry have lead to increased competition among utilities. At the same time, utilities are now exposed more than ever to risk and uncertainties, which they cannot pass on to their customers through price increases as in a regulated environment. Especially electricity-generating companies have to face volatile wholesale ...
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Power Structure
Power Structure examines the effects on economic performance of several key features of the U.S. electric power industry. Paramount among these are public versus private ownership, vertical integration versus deintegration, and retail competition versus monopoly distribution. Each of these, as well as other structural characteristics of utilities and their markets, are analyzed for their ...
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