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Power Electronics for Renewable Energy Systems, Transportation and Industrial Applications
<p><i>Power Electronics for Renewable Energy, Transportation, and Industrial Applications</i> combines state-of-the-art global expertise to present the latest research on power electronics and its application in transportation, renewable energy, and different industrial applications. This timely book aims to facilitate the implementation of cutting-edge techniques to design problems offering innovative solutions to the growing power demands in small- and large-size industries.  Application areas in the book range from smart homes and  electric and plug-in hybrid electrical vehicles (PHEVs), to smart distribution and intelligence operation centers where significant energy efficiency improvements can be achieved through the appropriate use and design of power electronics and energy storage devices. </p> <p>Key features: </p> <ul> <li>Discusses wide range of power electronics converters and control techniques to reduce energy waste and improve grid power quality.</li> <li>Brings together power electronics technologies such as renewable energy conversion, electric transportation, and electric drives, which are prevalent in industry and at education and research stages.</li> <li>Defines existing challenges, concerns, and selected problems complying with international trends, standards, and programs for electric power conversion, distribution, and sustainable energy development. </li> <li>An imperative and far reaching learning resource for power electronics engineers, researchers, and students.</li> </ul>
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Analytical simulation of sustainable development scenarios for global two-component nuclear power industry. Part 1. Thermal reactor scenarios
The share of nuclear power in global electricity production has fallen from 17 to 9% since 2000. Moreover, the issue of limited natural uranium resources and their availability for the industry becomes acute. To analytically determine the possibilities of accelerated and sustainable development of global nuclear power industry (NPI) based on thermal nuclear reactors. Scenarios for the accelerated development of global NPI based on thermal reactors were calculated using analytical methods developed by the authors for predicting the dynamics of natural uranium resource depletion. The paper provides the development dynamics of NPI with only thermal reactors of a VVER type and its share in the global electricity production. Given the uranium reserves for currently operating reactors, 7.9 MtU of existing natural uranium resources appear sufficient to build only 490 (290) reactors with an operating period of 60 (80) years. Doubling natural uranium resources to 16 MtU and increasing the annual rate of thermal reactor construction to 4% could increase the contribution of nuclear power plants to the global electricity generation from 9 to 11-12% by 2035, yet followed with a rapid decline as uranium is depleted. The performed analysis demonstrates inadequacy of a long-term and sustainable development for global NPI based only on thermal nuclear reactors. An analysis of development scenarios based on fast reactors will be presented in Part 2.
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Producing Power
The Chernobyl disaster has been variously ascribed to human error, reactor design flaws, and industry mismanagement. Six former Chernobyl employees were convicted of criminal negligence; they defended themselves by pointing to reactor design issues. Other observers blamed the Soviet style of ideologically driven economic and industrial management. InProducing Power,Sonja Schmid draws on interviews with veterans of the Soviet nuclear industry and extensive research in Russian archives as she examines these alternate accounts. Rather than pursue one \"definitive\" explanation, she investigates how each of these narratives makes sense in its own way and demonstrates that each implies adherence to a particular set of ideas -- about high-risk technologies, human-machine interactions, organizational methods for ensuring safety and productivity, and even about the legitimacy of the Soviet state. She also shows how these attitudes shaped, and were shaped by, the Soviet nuclear industry from its very beginnings.Schmid explains that Soviet experts established nuclear power as a driving force of social, not just technical, progress. She examines the Soviet nuclear industry's dual origins in weapons and electrification programs, and she traces the emergence of nuclear power experts as a professional community. Schmid also fundamentally reassesses the design choices for nuclear power reactors in the shadow of the Cold War's arms race. Schmid's account helps us understand how and why a complex sociotechnical system broke down. Chernobyl, while unique and specific to the Soviet experience, can also provide valuable lessons for contemporary nuclear projects.
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The revolution in energy technology : innovation and the economics of the solar photovoltaic industry
\"The solar photovoltaic sector is moving forward very fast, both in terms of its own technological advancement and its standing among global renewable energy technologies. Rapid increases in solar cell efficiencies, fast technical change in solar batteries and solar glass, and economies of scale in production fuel its rapid adoption, and it is becoming clear that existing forecasts about its adoption need to be updated extensively. This timely and distinctive examination of the economic side of the field takes into account solar PV's recent and growing lead among renewable energies competing to replace fossil fuels. The Revolution in Energy Technology examines the birth of this technology in the United States, where the main innovators are still located, the emergence of China as a main production hub, and new and growing contributions to the innovation cascades from other countries including Germany, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. The participation of universities as investors and the role of venture capital are discussed, and particular emphasis is given to the domination of the sector by large firms. The book is interesting for both academics and graduate students as well as policy-makers, technicians, engineers and companies involved in the field.\"-- Back cover.
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Stochastic modelling of electricity and related markets
The markets for electricity, gas and temperature have distinctive features, which provide the focus for countless studies. For instance, electricity and gas prices may soar several magnitudes above their normal levels within a short time due to imbalances in supply and demand, yielding what is known as spikes in the spot prices. The markets are also largely influenced by seasons, since power demand for heating and cooling varies over the year. The incompleteness of the markets, due to nonstorability of electricity and temperature as well as limited storage capacity of gas, makes spot-forward hedging impossible. Moreover, futures contracts are typically settled over a time period rather than at a fixed date. All these aspects of the markets create new challenges when analyzing price dynamics of spot, futures and other derivatives.
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The power of nuclear : the rise, fall and return of our mightiest energy source
Providing a vivid account of the characters and events that have shaped nuclear power and our thinking around it, 'The Power of Nuclear' weaves politics, culture and technology to explore the past and future of nuclear power. Investigating the dawn of the atomic age in the 1940s, it goes on to show how the world came to fear nuclear plants after Chernobyl. In his quest to disentangle myth from facts, Marco Visscher asks: How dangerous is radiation? What should you do after a nuclear accident? And have nuclear weapons really made the world less safe? Also considering the potential of the atom to provide unlimited clean energy and free countries of their dependence on both fossil fuels and foreign imports, this book demonstrates how nuclear could mitigate climate change and offer energy security.
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Financing Nuclear Power Plants
This publication, which presents the outcome of an IAEA coordinated research project on financing nuclear power plants, contributes to the understanding of the specific challenges posed. Based on the experience of those Member States recently involved in financing nuclear projects, the publication identifies the lessons which could be drawn relating to the sources of financing, the nature of the financing process and the barriers to financing nuclear projects.
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