Unprecedented Room-Temperature Electrical Power Generation Using Nanoscale Fluorite-Structured Oxide Electrolytes

2008 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 556-559 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Kim ◽  
U. Anselmi-Tamburini ◽  
H. J. Park ◽  
M. Martin ◽  
Z. A. Munir
Keyword(s):  
Power Generation ◽  
Electrical Power Generation ◽  
Room Temperature ◽  
Electrical Power

Analysis of Electrical Power Generation Costs

1977 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 212-222 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. W. Hardie ◽  
J. H. Chamberlin
Keyword(s):  
Power Generation ◽  
Electrical Power Generation ◽  
Electrical Power ◽  
Generation Costs

Sir Charles Parsons and Electrical Power Generation—a Turbine Designer's Perspective

1994 ◽  
Vol 208 (3) ◽  
pp. 159-176 ◽  
Author(s):  
J R Bolter
Keyword(s):  
Power Generation ◽  
Steam Turbine ◽  
Gas Turbine ◽  
Electrical Power Generation ◽  
Analytical Methods ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Electrical Power ◽  
Turbine Generator ◽  
Current State ◽  
The World

Sir Charles Parsons died some three years after the author was born. In this paper the author looks back at the pioneering work of Parsons in the field of power generation. It shows how he was able to increase output of the steam turbine generator from 7.5 kW in 1884 to 50000 kW in 1930 while increasing efficiency from 1.6 to 36 per cent, and relates these achievements to the current state of the art. Blading design, rotor construction and other aspects of turbine engineering are considered. The conclusion is that Parsons and his associates charted the course which manufacturers and utilities throughout the world have continued to follow, although increasingly sophisticated design and analytical methods have succeeded the intuitive approach of Parsons. His constant search for improved efficiency was and is highly relevant to today's concern for the environment. Finally, although it did not become a practical proposition in his lifetime, the paper reviews Parsons' vision of, and continuing interest in, the gas turbine, first mentioned in his 1884 patents.

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