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Power Generation Technologies, 3rd Edition
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Power Generation Technologies, 3rd Edition

by Paul Breeze
February 2019
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
462 pages
14h 36m
English
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Chapter 13

Solar Power

Abstract

Solar energy is the most important energy source available to the earth. Solar energy can be exploited directly to generate electricity in two ways. Either the heat from the sun can be concentrated and used to drive a heat engine, or energy can be captured is a solid-state device, a solar cell, to provide a source of electric power. Solar thermal power plants come in four main varieties, solar towers, parabolic trough power plants, Fresnel lens plants and solar dishes, each defined by the method used to concentrate the sun’s heat energy. Solar thermal collection can also be added to a combined cycle gas turbine plant. Solar cells capture light energy directly. These simple solid-state devices are the third most important ...

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ISBN: 9780128182550