Thermal Power Plants: Economics, Advantages and Performance Assessment

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Oliver Hill (Editor)

Series: Energy Science, Engineering and Technology
BISAC: SCI024000

In order to further understand the transfer processes of radionuclides from soil and air to plants in tropical areas affected by coal mining and burning, the absorption of 234U, 238U and 210Po by ferns, lichens, mosses, soybean, wheat, pine and eucalyptus cultivated around a coal-fired power plant and coal mining area in southern Brazil was evaluated in Chapter One. In Chapter Two, the authors show how biomethanisation of biogas by primary and secondary treatment of activated sludge from a wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) can be used as an alternative to fossil fuels. Chapter Three applies a statistical methodology in order to distribute the consumption during the production cycle so that it is affected as less as possible. (Imprint: Nova)

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1. Using Biomonitors to Evaluate Soil and Air Pollution by Natural Radionuclides in Thermal Power Plant and Coal Mining Areas
Juliana A. Galhardi, Daniel M. Bonotto, Rafael García-Tenorio, Inmaculada D. Francés and Joao G. Motta (University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada, and others)

Chapter 2. A Biogas Energy Recovery System Based on the Joint Use of a Heat Engine and Sewage Water
Antonio Colmenar-Santos, Gloria Zarzuelo-Puch, David Borge-Diez and Enrique Rosales Asensio (Department of Electric, Electronic and Control Engineering, UNED, Ciudad Universitaria, Madrid, Spain, and others)

Chapter 3. Production/Demand Matching by Using a Tri-Generation System in a Combined Cycle
Antonio Colmenar-Santos, Carlos Cuviella-Suárez, David Borge-Diez and Enrique Rosales Asensio (Department of Electric, Electronic and Control Engineering, UNED, Ciudad Universitaria, Madrid, Spain, and others)

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