Track: Energy and Resource Efficiency
Abstract
Diesel power plants are widely used in stationary and mobile power applications ranging from emergency power plants, standby plants, peak power plants and black start plants. The main elements are an internal combustion engine and an electric generator for power generation. The main challenges facing diesel power generation is high greenhouse gas emissions, high cost of power and high fuel cost. Improvements on performance applied include use of supercharging, turbocharging, dual fuel conversion, and use of low carbon and renewable fuel sources in place of fossil fuels like biogas, biomethane, biofuels and natural gas.