Essentials of Natural Gas Microturbines

This book examines several natural gas microturbine technologies suitable for distributed generation and the automotive industry; explains the importance of natural gas microturbines and their use in distributed energy systems; discusses the history, development, design, and operation of gas microturbines; introduces the Evolutionary Algorithm for pollutant emissions and fuel consumption minimization; analyzes the power electronics for grid connection of the natural gas microturbines; and includes power quality measurements—graphical representations and numerical data—from a real system. Readers learn new techniques to improve equipment exploitation.