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.

 

 

 





Linden’s Handbook of Batteries

7 10 2010


Linden's Handbook of BatteriesLinden’s Handbook of Batteries

Authors: Thomas Reddy, David Linden
ISBN: 9780071624213 / 007162421X
©2010 | 1st Edition | 1200 pages | Softback with CD
Pub Date: NOV-10
Price: US$ 199.95
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The definitive engineering guide to battery design and selection—updated with the latest advances in cell efficiency

The standard battery reference for more than twenty years, Linden’s Handbook of Batteries provides authoritative data on the characteristics, properties, and performance of every major battery type. The Fourth Edition is entirely rewritten and reorganized to reflect huge advances in cell efficiency, including new information on lithium ion and large nickel metal hydride batteries, and portable fuel cells. This unparalleled resource allows you to: determine the performance characteristics of batteries under all conditions; select the most suitable battery for a given application; apply leading-edge technologies, materials, and methods in new designs and products; and have necessary data and equations at your fingertips.

Linden’s Handbook of Batteries, Fourth Edition includes new chapters on:

  • Battery modeling
  • Battery electrolytes
  • Batteries for electric vehicles
  • Batteries for biomedical applications
  • Nano-sized batteries
  • Stationary fuel cells
  • International standards


About the Authors

Thomas Reddy, Ph.D. (Bronxville, NY), a pioneer in the lithium battery field, is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School of the University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey. He previously served as Vice President of Power Conversion Inc., (currently Hawker Electracell, Inc.) and Yardney Technical Products, Inc. He continues to serve as a consultant to Yardney and other organizations.
David Linden (Little Silver, NJ) now retired, was previously a consultant with Duracell, Inc. and Director of the Power Sources Division of the U.S. Army Electronics R&D Command.

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