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Various Power Generation Technologies

The document summarizes various power generation technologies including hydroelectric power from turbines like Pelton, Francis, and Kaplan; natural gas power from gas turbines and combined cycle plants; coal power from pulverized, fluidized bed, and integrated gasification combined cycle plants; nuclear fission from reactors like boiling water, pressurized water, and gas-cooled; solar power from photovoltaics and solar thermal; fuel cells like alkaline, phosphoric acid, and solid oxide; biomass power from direct combustion and gasification; and ocean, wave, and tidal power technologies.

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Various Power Generation Technologies

The document summarizes various power generation technologies including hydroelectric power from turbines like Pelton, Francis, and Kaplan; natural gas power from gas turbines and combined cycle plants; coal power from pulverized, fluidized bed, and integrated gasification combined cycle plants; nuclear fission from reactors like boiling water, pressurized water, and gas-cooled; solar power from photovoltaics and solar thermal; fuel cells like alkaline, phosphoric acid, and solid oxide; biomass power from direct combustion and gasification; and ocean, wave, and tidal power technologies.

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Various Power Generation Technologies: Hydro:

Oil – Gas Thermal Large:


Pelton Turbine – 50-6,000 ft head
Reciprocating / Piston Engine: Francis Turbine – 10-2,000 ft head
Propeller Turbine – 10 – 300 ft head:
Small or High-Speed Kaplan Turbine
Medium Speed Small / Mini
Large or Slow Speed Micro
Combined Cycle – Waste Heat Boiler
Energy Storage:
Natural Gas – Simple GT:
Pumped Hydro
Aero-Derivative GT Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES) –
With Recuperation Huntorf:
Humid Air Turbine (HAT) Large CAES
Cascaded Humid Air Turbine (CHAT) Small CAES
Heavy Frame GT Above Ground CAES
Flywheel Systems
Natural Gas – Combined Cycle GT Utility Scale Batteries (USB):
Lead acid
Coal: Advanced
Stored Hydrogen
Pulverized Superconduction Magnetic Energy Storage
Amospheric CFB (SMES)
Presurized FBC Ultracapacitors
IGCC
IGHAT Geothermal:
Direct Coal-Fired Combined Cycle (DCCC)
Supercritical & Ultra-Supercritical Coal Dry Steam (Vapor)
Comb. Flashed Steam (Single, Double)
Binary Cycle
Nuclear Fission: Petrothermal (Hot Dry Rock)
Geothermal Preheat
Boiling Water Reactor (BWR), advanced Fossil Superheat
Pressurized Water Reactor (PWR)
Pressurized Heavy Water Reactor (PHWR) Wind
Advanced Gas-Cooled Reactor (AGR):
Candu Reactor Solar PV:
High Temp. Gas-Cooled Reactor (HTGR)
Gas Turbine Modular Helium Reactor (GT- Crystalline silicon
MHR) Thin film – Amorphous Silicon
Breeder Reactors Thin film – Indium Diselenide
Flat Plate
Nuclear Fusion High Efficiency Multi Junction – IHCPV
Solar Thermal: Single Pool
Modulated Single Pool w/ Pumped Hydro
Trough Two Pool
Tower
Dish
Salt Pond (power + water)

Fuel Cells:

Alkaline (AFC)
Phosphoric Acid (PAFC)
Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM)
Direct Methanol
Molten Carbonate (MCFC)
Solid Oxide-GT (SOFC-GT)

Biomass:

Direct Combustion
Co-firing with Coal
Biomass Gasification (BIGCC)
Municipal Waste
Pyrolysis
Landfill Gas (40 – 60% CH4)
Anaerobic Digestion (65% CH4)
Sewage Digestion

Ocean Thermal:

Claude (open cycle)


Controlled Flash Evaporation (open)
Anderson (closed cycle)

Ocean Wave:

Oscillating Water Column (OWC)


Hydraulic Accumulator
High Level Reservoir
Float or Pitching Devices
Wave Surge or Focusing (”tapchan”)
Pendulor

Tidal Power:

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