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Boilers: A Practical Reference / Edition 1
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Boilers: A Practical Reference / Edition 1
Current price: $125.00
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Boilers: A Practical Reference / Edition 1
Current price: $125.00
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Following the publication of the author’s first book,
, several requests were made for a reference with even quicker access to information.
is the result of those requests, providing a user-friendly encyclopedic format with more than 500 entries and nearly the same number of supporting illustrations.
Written for practicing engineers and dealing with practical issues rather than theory, this reference focuses exclusively on water tube boilers found in process industries and power plants. It provides broad explanations for the following topics:
- A range of boilers and main auxiliaries, as well as steam and gas turbines
- Traditional firing techniques—grates, oil/gas, and modern systems
- Industrial, utility, waste heat, MSW and bio-fuel-fired boilers, including supercritical boilers
- The scientific fundamentals of combustion, heat transfer, fluid flow, and more
- The basics of fuels, water, ash, high-temperature steels, structurals, refractory, insulation, and more
- Additional engineering topics like boiler instruments, controls, welding, corrosion, and wear
- Air pollution, its abatement techniques and their effect on the design of boilers and auxiliaries
- Emerging technologies such as carbon capture, oxy-fuel combustion, and PFBC
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