Thermal Engineering in Power Systems: (No. 22 Developments in Heat Transfer)

Research and development in thermal engineering for power systems are of significant importance to many scientists who work in power-related industries and laboratories. This book focuses on a variety of research areas including Components of Compressors and Turbines that are used for electric power systems and aero engines, Fuel Cells, Energy Conversion, and Energy Reuse and Recycling Systems. To be competitive in today's market, power systems need to reduce operating costs, increase capacity and deal with many other tough issues. Heat Transfer and fluid flow issues are of great significance to power systems. Design and R&D engineers in the power industry will therefore find this state-of-the-art book on those issues very useful in their efforts to develop sustainable energy systems.

Table of Contents:
Chapter 1: Relevance of heat transfer and heat exchangers for the development of sustainable energy systems Introduction; Reduction of energy consumption; Improved efficiency of energy conversion; Use of renewable energy; Reduction of emission and pollutant; Some examples of recent research; Conclusions Chapter 2: Advanced technologies for clean and efficient energy conversion in power systems Introduction; Brief history of energy conversion; Energy and power generation; Efficiency improvements in power plants; High temperature air combustion technology; Practical aspects of power generation; Conclusions Chapter 3: Virtual engineering and the design of power systems Virtual engineering; A virtual engineering application; Current development efforts; Building a virtual engineering application; Summary Chapter 4: Steam power plants Introduction; Energy scenarios; Steam power plants cycles; Boiler furnace combustion; Heat transfer calculations in boiler furnaces; Power plant water problems Chapter 5: Enhancement of nuclear power plant safety by condensation-driven passive heat removal systems Passive systems with condensation heat transfer; Roles of passive condenser systems in nuclear power plants; Description of scenarios and phenomena; State-of-the-art analysis methods; Analysis challenges; Summary Chapter 6: Modern CFD application on aerothermal engineering aspects of natural draft cooling towers Introduction; Numerical modelling; Validation; Influences on the cooling tower performance; Cross wind effects on the cooling tower performance Chapter 7: Innovative gas turbine cooling techniques Introduction; Turbulated channel cooling; Mesh network and micro cooling; Latticework (vortex) cooling; Augmented surface impingement cooling; Concavity surfaces cooling; Swirl (cyclone) cooling; Film cooling; Conclusion Chapter 8: Hot gas path heat transfer characteristics/active cooling of turbine components Introduction; Hot gas path heat transfer characteristics; Active cooling of the gas turbine components in the gas path; Concluding remarks Chapter 9: Design and optimization of Turbo compressors Part I: Compressors and their design; Part II: Blade design and optimization; Part III: Centrifugal compressor design experience; Summary Chapter 10: Advances in understanding the flow in a centrifugal compressor impeller and improved design Introduction; The historical development of the centrifugal impeller; The centrifugal compressor stage; Similitude, dimensional analysis and control volume analysis; The development of 2D inviscid impeller flow theory; Current impeller design using CAD and CFD interactions; Concluding remarks Chapter 11: Thermal engineering in hybrid car systems Introduction; History of hybrid vehicles; Configurations of hybrid car powertrains; Technologies and challenges for thermal management of hybrid car system components; Conclusion

About the Author :
Ryoichi S. AMANO (Ph.D. University of California at Davis, MS & BS, Waseda University, Japan) is a professor in the Department Of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. His research interests include computational fluid dynamics; turbomachinery; rotating machines; heat/mass transfer; metal matrix composites; environmental remedial technology; micro-biological transport phenomena; aerodynamics; and propulsion engineering. Bengt SUNDEN is a Professor of Heat Transfer at Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden, where he has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in heat and mass transfer, fluid mechanics, and numerical flow simulation and has supervised more than 135 masters' theses, 25 licentiate of Engineering theses, and 21 doctoral theses.His research topics are Enhancement of heat transfer in compact heat exchangers; numerical methods of convective flow and heat transfer in complex narrow geometries; combustion - related heat transfer; thermal imaging techniques; heat exchanger networks; and heat and mass transfer topics. He has had approximately 300 papers published in well-recognized journals, books and proceedings and has delivered several invited lectures and papers. He has been editor of thirteen books published by international publishers, is involved with referee work for more than twentyfive international journals, and is the editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Heat Exchangers and the book series Developments in Heat Transfer. He is also a fellow of ASME.