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Title Hydroelectricity and power electronics : environmental impacts, emerging technologies and challenges / Lucille Burke, editor
Published New York : Nova Publishers, [2014]

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Series Electronics and telecommunications research
Electronics and telecommunications research.
Contents HYDROELECTRICITY AND POWER ELECTRONICS: ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS, EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES AND CHALLENGES -- HYDROELECTRICITY AND POWER ELECTRONICS: ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS, EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES AND CHALLENGES -- Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1: HYDROPOWER DEVELOPMENT IN SERBIA: CURRENT STATE, PERSPECTIVES AND CHALLENGES -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- 2. LEGAL, INSTITUTIONAL AND PLANNING FRAMEWORK FOR THE PRODUCTION AND EXPLOITATION OF HYDROPOWER IN SERBIA -- 3. NATURAL AND UTILIZED HYDROPOWER POTENTIAL OF SERBIA
4. MODERNIZATION AND UPGRADING OF EXISTING HYDROPOWER PLANTS5. FUTURE HYDROPOWER DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS -- 6. ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 2: THE USE OF HYDROPOWER PLANTS FOR ELECTRICITY GENERATION IN THE EUROPEAN REGION -- ABSTRACT -- GENERAL OVERVIEW -- TYPES OF HYDROPOWER PLANTS -- THE LIFECYCLE OF HYDROPOWER PLANTS -- THE USE OF HYDROPOWER PLANTS FOR ELECTRICITY GENERATION IN THE EUROPEAN REGION -- INVESTMENT IN HYDROPOWER PLANTS -- BENEFITS AND RELEVANCE OF THE USE OF HYDROPOWER PLANTS FOR THE GENERATION OF ELECTRICITY
THE FUTURE OF THE HYDROPOWER SECTOR IN THE EUROPEAN REGIONNEGATIVE IMPACT ON THE ENVIRONMENT AND ON THE POPULATION DUE TO THE USE OF HYDROPOWER PLANTS FOR ELECTRICITY GENERATION -- SOME ADDITIONAL CONSIDERATIONS -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 3: RISK MANAGEMENT OF HYDROPOWERP ROJECTS IN SOUTHWEST CHINA -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. NEED TO UNDERSTAND OVERALL ASPECTS OF RISK MANAGEMENT FOR HYDROPOWER PROJECTS -- 3. EMPIRICAL RESEARCH METHODOLOGY -- 4. SURVEY RESULTS AND ANALYSIS -- 5. CASE STUDY OF THREE GORGES PROJECT
6. PRACTICAL STRATEGIES ON SYSTEMATICALLY MANAGING THE RISKS OF HYDROPOWER PROJECTS IN SOUTHWEST CHINACONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 4: HARDWARE-IN-THE-LOOP SIMULATIONS AND CONTROL SYSTEMS BASED ON FPGA FOR POWER ELECTRONICS IN MICROGRIDS -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. HARDWARE-IN-THE-LOOP FOR MICROGRID SIMULATIONS -- 3. HILES-RCP FOR HARDWARE-IN-THE-LOOP SIMULATIONS -- 4. HARDWARE-IN-THE-LOOP MODEL OF MICROGRID -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 5: CASCADE CONVERTERS FOR WIDE CONVERSION RATIOS -- ABSTRACT
1.1. INTRODUCTION1.2. CONVENTIONAL CONVERTERS -- 1.3. OTHER PROPOSED CONVERTER TOPOLOGIES -- 1.4. QUADRATIC CONVERTERS -- 1.5. CASCADE BUCK AND BOOST CONVERTERS -- 1.6. SWITCHING STATE SPACE MODELS OF CASCADE CONVERTERS -- 1.7. AVERAGE MODELING OF CASCADE CONVERTERS -- 1.8. LINEAR AVERAGE MODELS FOR CASCADE CONVERTERS -- 1.9. SUMMARY OF MODELS -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 6: AlGaN/GaN BASED-POWER MOSFET WITH HIGHLY RESISTIVE UNDOPED BUFFER LAYER -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. FABRICATION OF ALGAN/GAN-BASED MOSFET
Summary In modern society, the utility power grid is supposed to guarantee load management, demand side management, as well as to use the market price of electricity and forecasting of energy (e.g., based on wind and solar renewable sources) in order to optimize the whole electrical distribution system. An optimized power system is expected to have the following characteristics: high efficiency, high availability, good quality of service and high level of security, which leads to the concepts of distributed generation and smart-grid. This book discusses different emerging technologies, principles and
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Subject Hydroelectric power plants.
Power Plants
hydroelectric power plants.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Mechanical.
Hydroelectric power plants
Form Electronic book
Author Burke, Lucille
LC no. 2019713970
ISBN 9781633217379
163321737X