Energy storage : a nontechnical guide

• Main Author: Baxter, Richard
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Tulsa, Okla. : PennWell, ©2006.
• Series: PennWell nontechnical series.
• Subjects: Energy storage.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781615839803; 1615839801; 159370027X; 9781593700270
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 302 pages) : illustrations

Table of Contents:

• 1. Storage and the electric power industry
• Misperceptions and realities
• Wholesale power
• Transmission and distribution
• Retail
• 2. Storage in other energy markets
• Petroleum market
• Coal market
• Natural gas market
• Lessons learned
• 3. Electricity storage technologies
• System components
• Pumped-hydroelectric storage (PHS)
• Compressed air energy storage (CAES)
• Flow batteries
• Sodium sulfur battery
• Lead-acid battery
• Nickel cadmium battery
• Flywheels
• Electrochemical capacitors
• Superconducting magnetic energy storage
• Thermal energy storage
• 4. Applications
• Key design issues
• Wholesale power
• Transmission and distribution
• Retail market
• 5. Renewable energy and storage
• Resource utilization challenges
• Remote power
• Island grid
• Grid connected
• 6. Our new energy future
• The road to here
• User's goals for storage technologies
• A road map for the future.