Electrical Safety Handbook

6 02 2012

 

 

 

Electrical Safety HandbookElectrical Safety Handbook

Authors: John Cadick, Mary Capelli-Schellpfeffer, Dennis Neitzel, Al Winfield
ISBN: 9780071745130 / 0071745130
©2012 | 4th Edition |  704 pages | Hardback
Pub Date: APR-12
Price: US$ 79.95
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An essential, fully updated on-the-job safety resource covering every major electrical standard—NEC, NESC, NFPA 70E, IEEE 1584, and OSHA

Electrical Safety Handbook, Fourth Edition is written by experts in electrical construction safety and medicine as a practical guide for electrical workers and others exposed to electrical hazards. This easy-to-use, illustrated guide provides vital safety information for industrial, commercial, and home-office based electrical systems. With its wealth of information on all the major electrical standards, it is the comprehensive reference professionals can trust.

 

New to the Fourth Edition:

  • Chapters on the basic physics of electrical hazards and electrical safety for home offices
  • Added sections with research on shocks received from sources of less than 50 volts, arc fault circuit interrupters (AFCI), AEDs
  • New self-check safety procedures

 

 

About the Authors

John Cadick, P.E., is a registered professional engineer and the founder and president of the Cadick Corporation. He has specialized for more than three decades in electrical engineering, training, and management. Mr. Cadick is the author of Cables and Wiring(Delmar Cengage Learning).

Mary Capelli-Schellpfeffer, M.D., M.P.A., is a board-certified physician in general preventive medicine and public health. She is also a consultant to both the NJATC (National Joint Apprenticeship and Training Committee of National Electrical Contractors Association and International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers) and IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) Standards Committees.

Dennis K. Neitzel, C.P.E., is a certified plant engineer with more than 30 years of experience in the electrical field. He has served as a principal committee member for NFPA 70E standards since 1992 and is currently working on the revision of OSHA regulations.

Al Winfield, of the Cadick Corporation, has more than three decades of electrical power experience, having conducted more than 4,500 Electrical Safe Work Practices Seminars.

 

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Power Plant Equipment Operation and Maintenance Guide

5 12 2011

 

 

 

 

Power Plant Equipment Operation and Maintenance Power Plant Equipment Operation and Maintenance Guide

Author: Philip Kiameh
ISBN: 9780071772211 / 0071772219
©2012 | 1st Edition | 768 pages | Hardback
Pub Date: JAN-12
Price: US$ 99.00
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A comprehensive guide to all types of power generation plants, their design, operation, systems, equipment, and maintenance

Power Plant Equipment Operation and Maintenance Guidefocuses on the sizing, selection, operation, diagnostic testing, troubleshooting, maintenance, and refurbishment of power plant equipment such as steam turbines, gas turbines, steam generators, condensers, feedwater heaters, compressors, pumps, valves, advanced electrical generators used in wind power stations, and more.

This book also provides thorough coverage of the various types of advanced combined cycle plants, plants that allow burning of coal, petroleum coke, biomass, and municipal waste in combined cycles. The economics of these plants, as well as all their power enhancement methods, are discussed in detail.

Advanced power plant instrumentation and control systems are also covered along with computer simulation of power plants. Ten computer simulation exercises and solutions are presented. All features used to enhance reliability and maintainability of power generating plants are discussed in detail.

 

 

About the Author

Philip Kiameh, M.A.Sc., B.Eng., D.Eng., P.Eng., has been a teacher at the University of Toronto, Canada, for 18 years. He also teaches courses and seminars worldwide to more than 4,000 engineers across Europe, North America, and the Middle East. Professor Kiameh has written four books for working engineers and has won excellence in teaching awards from the Professional Development Center at the University of Toronto and TUV Akademie. He performed research on power generation equipment with Atomic Energy of Canada Limited and has more than 26 years of practical engineering experience with Ontario Power Generation, formerly, Ontario Hydro, the largest electric utility in North America.

 

 

 





Handbook of Transportation Engineering Volume I & Volume II

8 03 2011

 

Handbook of Transportation EngineeringHandbook of Transportation Engineering Volume I & Volume II

Author: Myer Kutz
ISBN: 9780071761130 / 0071761136
©2011 | 2nd Edition | Hardback
Pub Date: MAR-11
Price: US$ 350
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The definitive transportation engineering resource—fully revised and updated

The two-volume Handbook of Transportation Engineering, Second Edition offers practical, comprehensive coverage of the entire transportation engineering field. Featuring 18 new chapters and contributions from nearly 70 leading experts, this authoritative work discusses all types of transportation systems—freight, passenger, air, rail, road, marine, and pipeline—and provides problem-solving engineering, planning, and design tools and techniques with examples of successful applications. Volume I focuses on transportation networks and systems, operations, and economics. Volume II focuses on applications in automobile and non-automobile transportation, and on safety and environmental issues.

 

Volume I covers:

  • National transportation networks and inter-modal systems
  • Transportation network planning: theoretical notions
  • Reliability of travel times and robustness of transport networks
  • Transportation systems modeling and evaluation
  • Software systems and simulation for transportation applications
  • Applications of GIS in transportation
  • Travel demand forecasting
  • Transportation and land use
  • Sustainable transportation practice
  • Transportation planning and modeling
  • Transportation economics
  • Innovative information technology applications in public transportation
  • Parking management
  • Trucking operations
  • The economics of railroad operations: resurgence of a declining industry
  • Airline management and operations
  • The marine transportation system
  • Global logistics
  • Freight transportation planning
  • Management of transportation organizations

 

Volume II covers:

  • Traffic engineering analysis
  • Traffic origin-destination estimation
  • Traffic congestion
  • Highway capacity
  • Traffic control systems: freeway management and communications
  • Traffic signals
  • Highway sign visibility
  • Transportation lighting
  • Geometric design of streets and highways
  • Intersection and interchange design
  • Pavement engineering: flexible and rigid pavements
  • Pavement testing and evaluation
  • Bridge engineering
  • Tunnel engineering
  • Pedestrians
  • Bicycle transportation
  • Spectrum of automated guideway transit (AGT) and its applications
  • Railway vehicle engineering
  • Railway track design
  • Improvement of railroad yard operations
  • Modern aircraft design techniques
  • Airport design
  • Air traffic control systems design
  • Ship design
  • Pipeline engineering
  • Traffic safety
  • Transportation hazards
  • Hazardous materials transportation
  • Incident management
  • Network security and survivability
  • Optimization of emergency evacuation plans
  • Transportation noise issues
  • Air quality issues in transportation
  • Transportation and climate change

 

About the Author

Myer Kutz is President of Myer Kutz Associates, Inc., a publishing and information services consulting firm, and editor of number successful handbooks including Standard Handbook of Biomedical Engineering Design.

 

 

 








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