Large-scale solar thermal power : technologies, costs and development /
"This important contribution to the issue of renewable energy describes the technical and economical requirements of mass-produced solar thermal power plants, from the different types of power plants to the development needs and a massive development program. The authors - renowned and experien...
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Weinheim :
Wiley-VCH Verlag & Co. KGaA,
?2010.
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| Online Access: | Full text (Wentworth users only) |
Table of Contents:
- The salient facts
- Solar technologies : an overview
- Some additional economic factors
- The potential of solar thermal power plants for the energy supply: capacity factor, availability of solar energy, and land availability
- Heliostats
- Receivers
- Parabolic-trough power plants
- Solar updraft power plants
- Fossil-fuel power plants
- Other technologies for backup power generation and alternatives for future energy supplies
- The large-scale use of nuclear energy
- Appendix A: Solar tower power plants: Comparison of Kolb (1996), Kalb/Vogel, Sun Lab, S & L
- Appendix B: Inflation, purchasing power parities
- Appendix C: Energy statistics
- Appendix D: Comments on the earlier study (Kalb and Vogel 1986a).