Progress in Power and Electrical Engineering - 9783037852668

This two-volume set collects papers from an October 2011 conference. Major themes are renewable and sustainable energy, power and electrical engineering, environmental science and engineering, and natural resources and sustainable development. The papers are grouped into sections on engineering thermophysics, thermal engineering, power machinery and engineering, fluid machinery and engineering, HVAC air conditioning and refrigeration, power system automation, high voltage and insulation technology, electrician theory, and power electronics and power drives. Some specific topics include nanofiber sheets with superabsorbent properties, the design of coarse and fine regulatory arc suppression coil, and simulation of low NOx combustion with heating fuel in diesel engines. Other subjects examined include numerical simulation of turbulent mixing for dislocated blades in a stirred tank, absorption characteristics of activated carbon prepared by biomass, simulation of solar assisted ground source heat pump systems, and transformer fault diagnosis based on a gene expression programming classifier. Zhang is affiliated with Shanghai University of Electric Power, China. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)