Chapter 13
Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion
KEY CONCEPTS
- Principles of ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) plants
- Closed-cycle, open-cycle, and hybrid-cycle OTEC
- Basic rankine cycle and its working
- Selection of working fluids
- Carnot cycle
- Application of OTEC in addition to production of electricity
- Advantages and disadvantages of OTEC
Ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) is a method to produce electricity by using the temperature differences between warm ocean surface and cool deep ocean water to run a heat engine. If temperature difference is greater, then more energy will be produced. About 70% of the earth’s surface is covered by oceans, which are continuously heated by the sun. Extracting the solar energy stored in an ocean is carried ...
Get Non Conventional Energy Resources now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
