Book description
Energy and environmental issues have caused a marked increase in electricity production from renewable energy sources since the beginning of the 21st Century. The concept of sustainable development and concern for future generations challenge us every day to produce new technologies for energy production, and new patterns of use for these energies. Their rapid emergence can make the understanding and therefore the perception of these new technologies difficult. This book aims to contribute to a better understanding of the new electricity generation technologies by addressing a diverse audience. It presents the issues, sources and means of conversion into electricity using a general approach and develops scientific concepts to understand their main technical characteristics.
Systems of electricity generation from renewable energy resources of small to medium powers are presented. The basic electrical concepts necessary for understanding the operating characteristics of these energy converters are introduced, and the constraints and problems of integration in the electrical networks of those means of production are discussed. Several exercises are provided to the reader for evaluation purposes.
Contents
1. Decentralized Electricity Production from Renewable Energy, Benoît Robyns.
2. Solar Photovoltaic Power, Arnaud Davigny.
3. Wind Power, Bruno Francois and Benoît Robyns.
4. Terrestrial and Marine Hydroelectricity: Waves and Tides, Benoît Robyns and Antoine Henneton.
5. Thermal Power Generation, Jonathan Sprooten.
6. Integration of the Decentralized Production into the Electrical Network, Benoît Robyns.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Decentralized Electricity Production from Renewable Energy
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Chapter 2. Solar Photovoltaic Power
- 2.1. Introduction
- 2.2. Characteristics of the primary resource
- 2.3. Photovoltaic conversion
- 2.4. Maximum electric power extraction [AST 08b] [PRO 97] [GER 02]
- 2.5. Power converters
- 2.6. Adjustment of the active and reactive power
- 2.7 Solar power stations [PRO 97] [AST 08b] [SAB 06]
- 2.8. Exercises
- 2.9. Bibliography
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Chapter 3. Wind Power
- 3.1. Characteristic of the primary resource
- 3.2. Kinetic wind energy
- 3.3. Wind turbines
- 3.4. Power limitation by varying the power coefficient
- 3.5. Mechanical couplings between the turbine and the electric generator
- 3.6. Generalities on induction and mechanical electric conversion
- 3.7. “Fixed speed” wind turbines based on induction machines
- 3.8. Variable speed wind turbine
- 3.9. Wind turbine farms
- 3.10. Exercises
- 3.11. Bibliography
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Chapter 4. Terrestrial and Marine Hydroelectricity: Waves and Tides
- 4.1. Run-of-the-river hydraulics
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4.2. Hydraulic power of the sea
- 4.2.1. Wave power
- 4.2.2. Energy of the continuous ocean currents
- 4.2.2.1. Description of the current phenomenon
- 4.2.3. Tidal energy
- 4.2.4. Wave production, wave-power generator
- 4.2.5. Production by sea currents
- 4.2.6. Tidal production
- 4.2.7. Exercise: Estimation of the production of a simple effect tidal power
- 4.3. Bibliography
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Chapter 5. Thermal Power Generation
- 5.1. Introduction
- 5.2. Geothermal power
- 5.3. Thermodynamic solar power generation
- 5.4. Cogeneration by biomass
- 5.5. Bibliography
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Chapter 6. Integration of the Decentralized Production into the Electrical Network
- 6.1. From a centralized network to a decentralized network
- 6.2. Connection voltage
- 6.3. Connection constraints
- 6.4. Limitations of the penetration level
- 6.5. Perspectives for better integration into the networks
- 6.6. Bibliography
- List of Authors
- Index
Product information
- Title: Electricity Production from Renewables Energies
- Author(s):
- Release date: May 2012
- Publisher(s): Wiley
- ISBN: 9781848213906
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