Future sources of thermal efficiency in generation technology

Anastassios Pouris

Energy, 1986, vol. 11, issue 9, 853-859

Abstract: We describe and compare five electricity-generating concepts (i.e. thermionic conversion, thermoelectric generation, magnetohydrodynamic generation, fuel cells, and gas-turbine generation), which promise to improve the stagnating fuel-conversion efficiency of the conventional electric power plant. A variety of criteria indicates that the combined gas-turbine-steam-turbine cycle is the most probable candidate to succeed the conventional electricity generating systems in the near future. Over the long-term, fuel-cell conversion looks more promising than magnetohydrodynamic generation, which is impaired by relative lower predicted efficiencies and development in an isolated environment in the U.S.S.R.

Date: 1986
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DOI: 10.1016/0360-5442(86)90003-4

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