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Showing 1 to 20 of 723 for “"Power plants"”.
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Tribology in coal-fired power plants
… with the aim of reducing wear damage in power plants. The alumina ceramics tested ranged in composition from 90% alumina to 97% alumina content. A nitride fired and an oxide fired SiC particulate composites were also tested for comparison. The impact angle, impact velocity, as well as …
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Modeling water use at thermoelectric power plants
… and consumption of water at thermoelectric power plants affects regional ecology and supply security of both water and electricity. The existing field data on US power plant water use, however, is of limited granularity and poor quality, hampering efforts to track industry trends and project …
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Steam temperature regulation in fossil power plants
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 2001.
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Mobile power plants : waste body heat recovery
… could be easily extended into a combustion based power plant. An experimental apparatus investigating the use of magneto hydrodynamics was designed, built, and tested. A room temperature liquid inetal was propelled through a magneto hydrodynamic channel of 4 inches by 0.1875 inches at a rate of 10 …
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Mechanical properties of materials for fusion power plants
Fusion power is the production of electricity from a hot plasma of deuterium and tritium, reacting to produce particles and 14 MeV neutrons, which are collected by a cooling system. Their kinetic energy is transformed into heat and electricity via steam turbines. The constant ux of neutrons on the …
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A study of designs for small power plants
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Application of process data reconciliation in power plants
The operation of power plants and chemical processes requires process measurements for optimal operations. Process measurements are essential for plant performance optimization, process monitoring and process control. It is vital to have reliable and accurate process data to achieve process …
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Risk-informed incident management for nuclear power plants
Decision making as a part of nuclear power plant operations is a critical, but common, task. Plant management is forced to make decisions that may have safety and economic consequences. Formal decision theory offers the potential for a structured approach capable of taking into account risk-related …
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Methodology for the development of hydroelectric power plants
Hydropower has sufficient resources available and is actively promoted by Governments as part of their energy matrix, but its development is constrained by the difficulty of addressing location particularities, including technical features such as geology or hydrology, and institutional features …
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Identification of performance indicators for nuclear power plants
… indicators for assessing and predicting nuclear power plant overall performance (i.e., both economic and safety performance) in a systematic and quantitative way. The methodology consists of four steps: the selection of target sites/plants, the identification and refinement of candidate …
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Capture-ready power plants : options, technologies and economics
… during the design and construction of a plant. Power plant owners and policymakers are interested in capture-ready plants because they may offer relatively low cost opportunities to bridge the gap between current coal-fired generation technologies without CO2 capture to future plants that may be …
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Generation reliability modeling and analysis of wind power plants
… wind generation increases the reliability of a power system. However, the extent to which the reliability is increase varies with the wind farm's penetration level. Using the LOLE, it is shown that as more wind generation is added to a power system the increase in reliability diminishes. …
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The Modeling of Crud Buildup in Nuclear Power Plants
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Solar-thermal hybridization of Advanced Zero Emissions Power Plants
Carbon Dioxide emissions from power production are believed to have significant contributions to the greenhouse effect and global warming. Alternative energy resources, such as solar radiation, may help abate emissions but suffer from high costs of power production and temporal variations. On the …
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Valuation methods for capital investment in merchant power plants
… markets. Developers of the new merchant plants face a different set of risks than the regulated vertically integrated utilities that formerly owned the generating resources that supplied electricity to customers in their service area. This thesis evaluates the impact that industry …
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Enabling Grid Integration of Combined Heat and Power Plants
… energy into the grid is the Combined Heat and Power technology. Combined Heat and Power (CHP) plants produce useful thermal and electrical power output from a single input fuel source and are widely used in the industrial and commercial sectors for reliable on-site power production. However, …
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Irradiance forecasting and dispatching central station photovoltaic power plants
This dissertation introduces a new operational tool for integrating a photovoltaic (PV) system into the utility's generation mix. It is recognized at the outset, that much of the existing research concentrated on the central PV system and its operations have concluded that technical problems in PV …
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Uncertainty quantification for safety verification applications in nuclear power plants
… has increased with the degradation of Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) equipment and instrumentation. In order to achieve NPP safety, it is important to continuously evaluate risk for all potential hazards and fault propagation scenarios and map protection layers to fault / failure / hazard …
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On Estimation of Efficiencies of Hospitals and Electric Power Plants
… of Efficiencies of Hospitals and Electric Power Plants MAJOR PROFESSOR: Dr. Subhash C. Sharma Our objective of this dissertation was to estimate the efficiencies and the sources of total factor productivity (TFP) of hospitals and the efficiency of electrics power plants. In addition, we …
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Exergy Analysis of Pulverized Coal-Fired Ultra Supercritical Power Plants
Demand for power generation has been increasing day by day and, along with it, a clean and efficient way of generating power is becoming more and more important. Apart from the electricity generated, the emission of the hazardous gases plays a vital role in the research field. The world’s power …
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