Documents et rapports
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Gas turbine based power plants : technology and market status (anglais)
This Note provides an overview of the issues related to the development, and utilization of gas-turbines (GT), when used either in open-cycle, or combined-cycle (CC), and is divided into three major parts:...
Type de document: Bulletin d’information Numéro du rapport: 26350 Date du document: 30 juin 1999 Auteur: Takahashi,Masaki, Tavoulareas, Stratos [editors],Taud, Robert, Karg, Juergen, O'Leary, Donald
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Supercritical coal fired power plants : a technology being successfully deployed in developing countries (anglais)
This paper reviews the major technical and performance aspects of a coal fired plan using the supercritical technology. These include the turbine-generator set, the once-through boiler, and operational...
Type de document: Bulletin d’information Numéro du rapport: 19666 Date du document: 30 avril 1999 Auteur: Paul, Ingo
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Tailor-made off the shelf: reducing the cost and construction time of thermal power plants (anglais)
Over the last ten years, the average cost and construction time of greenfield fossil fuel-fired power plants has been reduced by approximately 50, even as their performance has improved. This is the result...
Type de document: Bulletin d’information Numéro du rapport: 30524 Date du document: 1 mars 1999 Auteur: O'Leary,Donal T.,Paul, Ingo,Taud, Robert
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Gas market development in Brazil - how gas-fueled power plants can operate in Brazil's hydro dominated system (anglais)
This note discusses the issues faced in introducing new gas fired power generation plants into Brazil's hydropower dominated system. Ordinarily, power project developers seek to operate their plants at...
Type de document: Bulletin d’information Numéro du rapport: 26349 Date du document: 28 février 1999 Auteur: Garcia,Hernan G.,Law,Peter L.
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Financing decentralized renewable energy : new approaches (anglais)
Renewable energy is a feasible technological option in sustainable energy. Rusting monuments to past failures attest that his "autonomous" technology must operate within a frame of sustainable energy development...
Type de document: Bulletin d’information Numéro du rapport: 26344 Date du document: 31 octobre 1998 Auteur: Barnes, Douglas,Jechoutek, Karl,Young, Andrew
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Technologies for reducing emissions in coal-fired power plants (anglais)
Emissions from fossil fuel combustion, especially coal combustion, are major contributors to air pollution. Concentrations of suspended particles and sulfur dioxide (SO2) in the air of many cities in developing...
Type de document: Bulletin d’information Numéro du rapport: 26348 Date du document: 1 août 1998 Auteur: Takahashi,Masaki
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Cleaner transportation fuels for air quality management (anglais)
Deteriorating urban air quality causes significant economic losses in many developing countries. In some of the more industrialized developing countries, whose cities are now cloaked in smog, the cost...
Type de document: Bulletin d’information Numéro du rapport: 26347 Date du document: 1 juillet 1998 Auteur: Masami Kojima, and Eleodoro Mayorga-Alba
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Rural lighting services - a comparison of lamps for domestic lighting in developing countries (anglais)
The results of technical tests on a range of lamps provide a guide to an optimal choice of lamps for improved lighting, mainly in rural areas in distributed applications i.e. in standalone (DC - Direct...
Type de document: Bulletin d’information Numéro du rapport: 26855 Date du document: 1 juillet 1998
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Guidelines for attracting developers of hydropower independent power projects (anglais)
Developing countries have become increasingly interested in attracting private entities to bid on construction and operation of hydro-based independent power projects (IPPs). The output from such power...
Type de document: Bulletin d’information Numéro du rapport: 17625 Date du document: 30 avril 1996 Auteur: Besant-Jones,John E.
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Consequences of energy policies for the urban poor (anglais)
Poor urban households in developing countries spend a significant proportion of their limited cash incomes, often as much as 15 to 22 percent, on energy, and much of their remaining income is spent on...
Type de document: Bulletin d’information Numéro du rapport: 76070 Date du document: 1 novembre 1995 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Barnes,Douglas French
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Deregulation and reform of petroleum markets - from monopolies to new regulated markets (anglais)
International oil markets have evolved significantly, and a competitive market has emerged that is setting internationally accepted prices for crude and refined products. In many developing countries...
Type de document: Bulletin d’information Numéro du rapport: 17622 Date du document: 30 septembre 1995 Auteur: Bam,Christopher,Mayorga Alba,Eleodoro O.
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Barge-mounted diesel generators - an attractive alternative for special circumstances (anglais)
Barge-mounted diesel generators (BMDs) can represent a useful addition to the array of power generation technologies suitable for developing countries. Where they have been adopted, BMDs have proved highly...
Type de document: Bulletin d’information Numéro du rapport: 17621 Date du document: 31 août 1995 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Bacon,Robert W.
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Attracting finance for hydroelectric power (anglais)
Hydroelectricity will continue to be important for meeting power requirements in developing countries. Much of the funding required for hydroelectric projects must come from non-government sources; hydroelectric...
Type de document: Bulletin d’information Numéro du rapport: 17619 Date du document: 30 juin 1995 Auteur: Besant-Jones,John E.
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Burning charcoal issues (anglais)
Charcoal plays an important role in both the energy sectors and the economies of most African countries. However, the inefficiencies inherent to the production and use of charcoal, rapid urbanization...
Type de document: Bulletin d’information Numéro du rapport: 17617 Date du document: 30 avril 1995 Auteur: Van Der Plas,Robert J.