Encyclopedia of Chemical Processing and Design: Volume 19 - Energy
Subtitle: Costing Thermal Electric Power Plants to Ethanol (Encyclopedia of Chemical Processing and Design)
Publisher: CRC; CRC Press
Published: November 30, 1983
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 480
ISBN-13: 9780824724696
Subjects: Industrial Chemistry & Manufacturing Technologies; Encyclopedias; Technology & Industrial Arts; Chemistry - Industrial & Technical; Engineering - General; Science / Chemistry / Technical & Industrial; Chemistry, Technical; Chemical engineering
First sentence: In an earlier paper [1] analyzing the total capital investment requirements and the overall energy cycle efficiencies of electric generating plants, this author noted that the product of these factors was relatively constant for all the energy resources investigated (i.e., total capital investment x net cycle eff constant).