Recent Improvements of Power Plants Management and Technology

• Other Authors: Nikolic, Aleksandar B. (Editor), Janda, Zarko S. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: IntechOpen 2017
• Subjects: Power networks, systems, stations & plants; reliability, probability, predictive maintenance, method, safety, accident
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Since first AC current high-power hydropower plant was put in operation, built by Nikola Tesla and George Westinghouse in 1895 on Niagara Falls, electrification of the world has dramatically changed. The growing power demand and energy consumption in the last decades require fundamental changes in t...