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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797113603321

Autore

Cootner Paul H.

Titolo

Water demand for steam electric generation / / Paul H. Cootner and George O.G. Lof

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxon [England] ; ; New York : , : Routledge : , : RFF Press, , 2015

ISBN

1-315-71873-1

1-317-51387-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (159 p.)

Collana

Routledge Revivals

Altri autori (Persone)

LofGeorge O. G

Disciplina

621.312132

Soggetti

Electric power-plants

Steam power plants

Industrial water supply

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published in 1965 by Resources for the Future.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Original Title""; ""Original Copyright""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Contents""; ""I. INTRODUCTION""; ""Cooling Demand""; ""Withdrawal Demand""; ""Evaporation Demand, or Disappearance""; ""Technological Advances that Could Influence Future Water Requirements""; ""II. THE NATURE OF WATER USE BY STEAM ELECTRIC UTILITIES""; ""III. THE SUPPLY CURVE FOR THERMAL EFFICIENCY""; ""The Shape of the Supply Curve""; ""The Effects of Technological Change""; ""A comment on the likelihood of technological change""; ""The gas turbine and atomic power""

""IV. THE DEMAND CURVE FOR THERMAL EFFICIENCY""""Water and Fuel Cost per Kilowatt-hour""; ""Water and Fuel Cost per Kilowatt""; ""The Demand for Thermal Efficiency""; ""Glossary of Symbols""; ""V. AVERAGE THERMAL EFFICIENCY""; ""Computing Average Efficiency in 1980""; ""Appendix to Chapter V: Derivation of Equation V-1""; ""VI. THE ECONOMICS OF WATER USE""; ""The Principles of Cooling""; ""Varying Condenser Size""; ""The Economics of Cooling Towers""; ""Cooling tower capital costs""; ""Cooling tower operating costs""; ""Steam cycle correction""

""Cooling Water Evaporative Losses and Minimum Requirements""""Allowance for Pollution""; ""Comparison of Cooling Systems""; ""VII. A REGIONAL MODEL FOR PROJECTIONS""; ""The Demand Curve for



Thermal Efficiency in the West South Central Region""; ""Appendix A. The Physics of Thermal Efficiency""; ""Appendix B. The Supply Curve of Thermal Efficiency""; ""Appendix C. References and Literature Citations""