Solar Power Generation

Paul Breeze is a journalist and freelance science and technology writer and consultant in the United Kingdom. He has specialised in power generation technology for the past 30 years. In addition to writing Power Generation Technologies, Second Edition, he has contributed to journals and newspapers such as The Financial Times and The Economist and has written a range of technical management reports covering all the aspects of power generation, transmission and distribution.

Introduction

1 Solar Energy Resource

2 Solar Sites and Land Resources

3 Solar Power generation technologies

4 Solar Thermal power generation

5 Gas turbine development

6 Advanced gas turbine cycles

Reheating

Intercooling

Recuperation

Mass injection

7 Combined Cycle power plants

8 Micro-Turbines

9 Emission Control for gas tower power plants

Nitrogen Oxide

Carbon Monoxide

Carbon Dioxide

10 Cost of Gas Turbine-Based power generation