Excerpt from Large Electric Power Stations Their Design and Construction: With Examples of Existing Stations
In recent years the installation and extension of power stations for the supply of electrical energy has progressed very rapidly, and has left little time to those engaged in this class of work to study in detail problems presented by questions of economy in capital outlay and production. It has, on the other hand, become more and more essential to scrutinise very closely the process of transformation of energy from coal to electricity, with the object of reducing fuel consumption and lowering the price at which the electrical energy can be supplied to consumers.
Dr Klingenberg's book, entitled "Bau grosser Elektrizitatswerke," contains so many important and new points on the above problems in economy that its English version, as presented herewith without additions or curtailment, will not fail to reach the wider circle of engineers for whom it was prepared. The original was the outcome of a lecture and several of the author's publications. Two important works are fully described; this was done in order to illustrate how the principles evolved in the first chapter are carried out in practice.
The comparison of coal transport as against transmission of electrical energy given in the second chapter will be of special interest to the many who are now confronted with questions of locality. The following chapter, on the other hand, illustrates the effect of the utility factor on the economy, and shows how the power station losses may be separated in order to obtain proper balances for heat and running costs.
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