Author(s): J.H. Horlock
Year 2007, PDF, 224 Pages
Product Description
Advanced Gas Turbine Cycles concentrates mainly on the thermodynamics of gas turbine cycles. The search for high gas turbine efficiency has led to many variations on the simple gas turbine, and these are described in detail. But more recently work has been directed towards gas turbines which produce less carbon dioxide, and also plants from which the carbon dioxide can be extracted and stored; a special chapter is devoted to such cycles. The economics of electrical power generation is also briefly discussed, together with the implications of a carbon tax.
About the Author
Sir John Horlock is an authority on turbomachinery and power plants and his books on axial compressors, axial turbines, actuator disk theory, combined heat and power and combined power plants are widely used and cited. He founded Whittle Laboratory at Cambridge in 1973 and acted as its first Director. He was the Vice-Chancellor firstly at Salford University and subsequently of the Open University. Sir John has been an advisor to Government and industry for forty years and has been a non-executive director of several UK companies. He was recently Treasurer and Vice-President of the Royal Society and was knighted for services to science, engineering and education in 1996.
