Among concentrating solar power technologies, solar tower power plants currently represent
one of the most promising ones. Direct steam generation systems, in particular, eliminate the …

Intermittency of renewable electricity generation poses a challenge to thermal power plants.
While power plants in the public sector see a decrease in operating hours, the utilization of …

New running conditions of power plants-provoked by volatility of market price and
integration of variable renewable energy sources (RES) into energy production process …

In order to improve the startup flexibility of steam turbines, it becomes relevant to analyze
their dynamic thermal behavior. In this work, the relative expansion between rotor and …

Liberalized electricity market conditions and concentrating solar power technologies call for
increased power plant operational flexibility. Concerning the steam turbine (ST) component …

The growth in the importance of interruptible sources of energy is increasing the concerns of
many electricity market regulators with respect to the reliability and stability of electricity …

The amount of incoming solar radiated energy to Earth is far greater than any other current
energy source. Among the existing technologies to harness the energy from the Sun there is …

This chapter discusses the most advanced variants of key technologies utilized in the
combustion of fossil fuels, and conversion of the resulting heat into electric power. Oxy-fuel …

The current thermal performance of advanced gas turbines (J class) leads to combined cycle
efficiencies exceeding 62%. Such results were achieved by making the gas turbines bigger …

Intermittency of renewable electricity generation poses a challenge to thermal power plants.
While power plants in the public sector see a decrease in operating hours, the utilization of …