Preserving and Presenting Heritage through Sustainable Energy Tourism: The Case of Kobarid in Slovenia

Energy tourism, which is quite recent despite the fact that the practice of tourists visiting power plants, very often for educational purposes, has a long tradition in Slovenia due to power plants on the Drava River. Particularly, the oldest Fala power plant is an area where the technical field of electric power production and transmission overlaps with tourism. The article that employs the methods of participant observation, interviews with some stakeholders and content analysis focuses on some possibilities of including electric power production and transmission infrastructure into various tourist and educational programmes, including through storytelling, which is a useful tool also when it comes to presenting sustainable and socially responsible project design, considering the needs of all stakeholders involved in the process and, consequently, raising awareness and responsibility towards the environment. Based on a case study of the Kobarid substation, which is a modern sustainably designed power facility built in a Natura 2000 protected area, this article focuses on the possibilities of creating new energy tourism products by employing storytelling, new media and new technologies.

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Determination of the efficiency of electric power production by nuclear power plants using the methodology of full energy costs. Part 1. Energy costs for construction

The Problems of General Energy ◽

10.15407/pge2018.02.036 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 2018 (2) ◽

pp. 36-44 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

V.D. Bilodid ◽

Keyword(s):

Electric Power ◽

Nuclear Power ◽

Power Plants ◽

Nuclear Power Plants ◽

Power Production ◽

Energy Costs ◽

Full Energy ◽

Electric Power Production

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Investigation of the Suitability of Serbian Lignites for Burning in CFBC Boilers

18th International Conference on Fluidized Bed Combustion ◽

10.1115/fbc2005-78016 ◽

2005 ◽

Author(s):

S. Oka ◽

B. Grubor ◽

D. Dakic´ ◽

M. Ilic´ ◽

V. Manovic´ ◽

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Keyword(s):

Heat Capacity ◽

Electric Power ◽

Fluidized Bed ◽

Power Plants ◽

Thermal Power ◽

Power Production ◽

Thermal Engineering ◽

Electric Power Production ◽

Production Company

The results of the detailed investigations of behavior of lignites Kolubara and Kovin, in fluidized bed combustion are presented in the paper. Investigation was carried out due to the interest of the Serbian Electric Power Production Company to use CFBC boilers in the process of refurbishment of old pulverized coal combustion boilers. As a part of a feasibility study for CFBC use in power plants in Serbia, investigation of combustion characteristics of lignites was performed using original methodology introduced many years ago by Laboratory for Thermal Engineering and Energy. Methodology was approved by numerous investigations of more than 20 Yugoslav coals for FBC combustion, with the aim to determine design data for bubbling FBC boilers. The main attention in present investigation was paid to the problem of using methodology developed for bubbling FBC in the conditions present in CFBC boilers. Four samples of Kolubara lignite, with heat capacity from 2.5 to 8.5 MJ/kg, and different ash contents were investigated, and also lignite Kovin in the same range of heat capacity. Investigations were performed in three phases: (1) ultimate and proximate analysis, determination of ash sintering temperature by standard method and in fluidized bed laboratory oven, (2) investigations in laboratory fluidized bed furnace and determination of coal particle fragmentation, burning rate, start-up temperature and self-sulfure-capture and (3) investigation of combustion in pilot-plant in stationary combustion conditions. In conclusion, suitability of results obtained in BFBC conditions is approved, and earlier statement that lignites are suitable for BFBC is confirmed by the statement that lignites are even more suitable for burning in CFBC boilers. Considering differences between combustion and flow conditions in bubbling and circulating FBC boilers, behavior of the lignites in CFBC is discussed in details and optimal regime parameters of the CFBC boilers are determined. The results obtained will be used by Serbian Electric Power Production Company for evaluation of bid for CFBC boiler implementation in refurbishment of old thermal power plants.

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