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Tidal Power

Harnessing Energy from Water Currents
By Victor Lyatkher
Copyright: 2014   |   Status: Published
ISBN: 9781118720912  |  Hardcover  |  
294 pages
Price: $195 195 USD
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Offers a unique and highly technical approach to tidal power and how it can be harnessed efficiently and cost-effectively, with less impact on the environment than traditional power plants.

Audience
Water engineers, structural engineers, mechanical engineers, electrical engineers, and any technicians or operators working with hydropower and tidal power.

Description
As the global supply of conventional energy sources, such as fossil fuels, dwindles and becomes more and more expensive, unconventional and renewable sources of energy, such as power generation from water sources, is becoming more and more important. Hydropower has been around for decades, but this book suggests new methods that are more cost-effective and less intrusive to the environment for creating power sources from rivers, the tides, and other sources of water.

The energy available from water currents is potentially much greater than society’s needs. Presenting a detailed discussion of the costs, risks, and challenges of building power plants that run on hydropower, this highly technical explanation of tidal power plants offers engineers practical applications of highly efficient and cost-effective power systems. Not just useful to engineers working in the field, this treatise is a valuable textbook for students and researchers working in tidal power.


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Author / Editor Details
Victor Lyatkher is a professor, engineer, and inventor.. He was educated in Moscow and Leningrad, and has developed and patented numerous processes and machines. These deal mainly with renewable energy sources such as tidal power, water turbines, and vertical axis wind turbines. He developed a new method to forecast long-term variations in the Caspian Sea level, and designed a new kind of low head turbine. Mr. Lyatkher has worked for over thirty years in the wind and hydro-power industry. He has received several prizes and awards for his accomplishments, including the Prize of the Council of Ministers of the USSR, the Award of the Indian Society of Earthquake Technology, and five medals of the All Union USSR Exhibition, gold, silver and bronze.He has published numerous books (in russian) on the subject of renewable energy, and was the original inventor of helical turbine, patented in the USSR in 1983.

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Table of Contents
Preface
1. Marine Hydro Kinetic- MHK
2. Rivers (Channels) Power Plants without a Dam
3. Low Speed Hydro Kinetic Turbines
4. Large Power Hydro Turbines
5. Examples of the Made Turbines
6. Water Currents Power- Looking to the Future

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BISAC SUBJECT HEADINGS
TEC031010: TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Power Resources / Alternative & Renewable
TEC06000: TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Marine & Naval
TEC010000: TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Environmental / General
 
BIC CODES
THX: Alternative & renewable energy sources & technology
RNFY: Energy resources
RBK: Hydrology & the hydrosphere

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