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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Heat rates"”.
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Carbon Capture Efficiency in Natural Gas Combined Cycle Power Plants: Analyzing the Effects of Variable Load Operations
… result in lower capture efficiencies and higher heat rates, although hot start-ups incur significantly less performance reduction. The literature review findings are integrated into GenX, a grid optimization tool, to evaluate natural gas combined cycle power plants equipped with carbon capture …
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Modeling Phase Change Heat Transfer of Liquid/vapor Systems in Free/porous Media
… solvent extraction incorporating electromagnetic heating is a relatively new concept that relies on Radio Frequency heating and solvents to replace steam in current thermal processes for the purpose of extracting bitumen from oil rich sands. The work presented here will further the understanding …
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The portfolio diversification value of nuclear power in liberalized electricity markets
… to boost capacity factors, reduce operational heat rates, and displace coal power plants. Similarly, as currently observed in Northeastern power markets, cheap natural gas has not only shrunk coal power profit margins but also negatively impacted plant capacity factors. Therefore, the portfolio …
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Molecular Crosslinking of Calcium-Silicate-Hydrate with Organosilanes: Toward Engineering of Cementitious Matrices with High Thermal Resistance
… with a tendency toward stacking into agglomerates at a larger scale. Hybrid organic-inorganic C-S-H gels exhibit significantly lower intrinsic conductivity than the inorganic one and the magnitude of the observed reduction is related to the molecular size of the bis-organosilanes. The largest …
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Impact on heat rate and subsequent emissions due to varying operation of coal fired power plants
… model, which more or less implies a constant heat rate, when trying to show the emissions reduction benefits of integrating renewable power generation system on the grid. This approach does not consider the fact that there is a deterioration in the heat rate with load for the Coal Fired Power …