Introduction to Energy Technologies for Efficient Power Generation [Paperback]

This book serves as a guide for discovering pathways to more efficient energy use. The first part of the book illustrates basic laws of energy conversion and principles of thermodynamics. Laws of energy conservation and direction of energy conversion are formulated in detail, and the types of thermodynamic processes are explained. Also included is the characterization of various types of real energy conversion. The second part of the book discusses types of energy conversion referred to as thermal-energy technologies. The advantages of the co-generation processes and devices operating within the Brayton direct cycle and their adaptively to household energetics are underlined.

Theoretical foundations of thermotechnics and power engineering. Conversion of thermal energy into mechanical work (thermal engines). Thermoelectric and co-generation technologies. Energy conversion (regeneration and recuperation). Heat transfer and accumulation. Energy and interior environment. Concluding remarks. Applications. Information Resources.

This book serves as a guide for discovering pathways to more efficient energy use.

Alexander Dimitrov is a professional lecturer with 35 years of experience at four different universities. In addition to universities in Bulgaria, Dr. Dimitrov has lectured and studied at leading scientific laboratories and institutes in other countries, including the Institute of Mass and Heat exchange Likijov, Byelorussian Academy of Sciences, Minsk; Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Environmental Energy Technology Division, Indoor Environment Department; UNLV ollege of Engineering, Center for Energy Research; Stanford University, California, Mechanical Department. Professor Dimitrov has conducted systematic research in energy efficiency, computer simulations of energy consumption in buildings, the distribution of air flow in an occupied space, modeling of heat transfer in building envelope, anl'