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Power Plant Equipment Operation and Maintenance Guide

5 12 2011

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.

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Design for Environment

3 08 2011

Design for Environment (PAPERBACK)

Author: Joseph Fiksel
ISBN: 9780071776226 / 0071776222
©2012 | 2nd Edition | 432 pages | Paperback
Pub Date: AUG-11
Price: US$ 40.00
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A practical guide to designing products with the environment and sustainability in mind

Now in paperback, Design for Environment, Second Edition sets forth the motivation and accepted methods for a business practice called Design for Environment (DFE), drawing upon the experiences of dozens of major U.S. corporations. Because of rising concerns about corporate environmental responsibility, DFE has become a key element of new product development. This book provides a unifying framework, based on sound management principles, whereby companies can simultaneously improve their financial performance and benefit the global environment. At the heart of this approach is the concept of “eco-efficiency,” a measurable characteristic of products and processes that quantifies how companies generate more value with less adverse environmental impact.

The purpose of the book is to provide both an informative introduction and a useful primary reference to those who wish to understand and practice DFE. It contains many concrete techniques, guidelines, and examples that will help to educate product development teams, both veterans and novices, about the practical aspects of DFE. It emphasizes a life-cycle approach, which considers the “cradle-to-cradle” costs and benefits associated with material acquisition, transportation, production, product use, and recovery for recycling or remanufacture. At the same time and for the benefit of senior managers, the book provides a sweeping overview of the cultural, political and economic changes that are transforming the role of environmental management in the business world.

Design for Environment, Second Edition

Includes anecdotal examples and graphical illustrations
Presents industry-based implementation examples
Shows how companies can redesign value delivery systems, including products and processes, to achieve both environmental excellence and economic prosperity
Includes insights on how DFE methods can be seamlessly integrated into existing business practices, including innovation, product development, marketing, and life cycle management.
Contains examples of leading companies that have put DFE into practice across a range of industries

About the Author

Dr. Joseph Fiksel (Columbus, OH)is Executive Director of the Center for Resilience at The Ohio State University, an interdisciplinary research center that is developing a unified approach for modeling risk, resilience, and sustainability in complex systems. As Senior Research Scientist for Integrated Systems Engineering, he engages in collaboration with companies, government agencies, non-profits, and other research organizations to develop new methods and tools for understanding the interdependence among social, environmental, and economic interests.

Joseph is also Principal and Co-Founder of the consulting firm Eco-Nomics LLC, and is an internationally recognized authority on sustainable business practices. He has over 20 years of management consulting experience, specializing in environmental risk management, product stewardship, design for environment, sustainability, and enterprise resilience.

The author also recently took on a part-time position with the EPA, working on their sustainability strategy.

Other books you might be interested:

9780071600309 Strategies for the Green Economy
9780071605564 Design for Environment (Hardback)

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Categories : Mechanical

Government Program Management

14 01 2011

Government Program Management

Author: Bruce Barkley
ISBN: 9780071744485 / 0071744487
©2011 | 1st Edition | 544 pages | Hardback
Pub Date: FEB-11
Price: US$ 59.95
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Proven strategies for bringing program management techniques to government projects, people, and structures worldwide for improvement on every level– including on-time delivery, accountability, and revenue control

Government Program Management reveals how to fundamentally change the roles, structures, and workforce characteristics of government agencies, with special emphasis on moving to a uniform government program management system. A new system to achieve accountability at the federal level is presented. This pioneering guide covers the history of modern reform movements at the government level and outlines reasons for failure of these initiatives. It offers innovative solutions to the problem of accountability and delivery in government programs and discusses recent movements toward reform in the U.S. and other countries such as the global movement called New Public Management.

Government Program Management addresses new initiatives in performance reporting and budgeting at the federal level, and presents specific reorganization and restructuring recommendations. A full chapter on reforming healthcare programs is included in this timely resource.

Government Program Management

Offers an in-depth, analytic look on reforming government agency program and project management structures
Brings the new Project Management Institute (PMI) Program Management standards and certification requirements to government programs and projects
Provides hands-on applications in the areas of government health care, park service, transportation, education, and other programs
Shows the importance of public management and program management in governments around the world, with models from every continent
Offers new insights from interviews and surveys from government program managers on reform and program delivery issues – exactly as they see them
Includes case studies and practical program and project applications for teaching and training purposes
Discusses global impacts and developments affecting future government-sponsored and outsourced programs and projects

About the Author

Bruce Barkley (Cumming, GA) is a Former Federal Senior Executive, Executive Office of The President of the United States and several Cabinet Agencies, Washington DC. He is currently Senior Faculty, Keller Graduate School of Management, Curriculum Coordinator, in the area of Project Management. Prior to this, Barkley served as VP for a business consulting firm in the areas of strategic planning and program management. He was also a manager with the Program Management Office (PMO) Universal Avionics, Inc.

Barkley is the author of Project Risk Management, Integrated Project Management, Customer-Driven Project Management, and Project Management in New Product Development, as well as the upcoming Global Program Management, with Paula Wagner.

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Linden’s Handbook of Batteries

7 10 2010

Linden’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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Universal Design Handbook

29 09 2010

Universal Design Handbook
Wolfgang Preiser, Korydon H. Smith

ISBN: 9780071629232 / 0071629238
Pub Date: OCT-10
Pages: 496
Copyright: 2011
Edition: 2
Format: Hardback
Price: US$ 150.00
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The Latest Advances in Universal Design

Thoroughly updated and packed with examples of global standards and design solutions, Universal Design Handbook, Second Edition, covers the full scope of universal design, discussing how to develop media, products, buildings, and infrastructure for the widest range of human needs, preferences, and functioning. This pioneering work brings together a rich variety of expertise from around the world to discuss the extraordinary growth and changes in the universal design movement.

The book provides an overview of universal design premises and perspectives, and performance-based design criteria and guidelines. Public and private spaces, products, and technologies are covered, and current and emerging research and teaching are explored. This unique resource includes analyses of historical and contemporary universal design issues from seven different countries, as well as a look at future trends. Students, advocates, policy makers, and design practitioners will get a theoretical grounding in and practical reference on the physical and social roles of design from this definitive volume.

UNIVERSAL DESIGN HANDBOOK , SECOND EDITION, COVERS:

United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
U.S. accessibility codes and standards, including the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
Life safety standards and guidelines
Universal design implementations in Norway, Japan, France, Germany, Brazil, Italy and the Old City of Jerusalem
Planning ADA implementation in public educational institutions
Urban scale and mass transportation universal design
Designing inclusive experiences, including outdoor play settings
Office and workspace design
Universal design in home building and remodeling
Products and technologies, including autos, web access, media, and digital content
Universal design research initiatives, education, and performance assessments

NEW TO THIS EDITION:

4 new chapters
Completely updated and revised chapters
Updated illustrations
Examples of standards and guidelines
Worldwide coverage with policies, requirements, and case studies
Presents the full scope of universal design–from urban scale to multimedia
An international roster of authors (e.g., India, U.K., Italy, France, Norway, Canada, Japan, Australia, Brazil)
A CD-Rom with the latest ADA and ABA accessibility guidelines

Review

1. SciTech Book News, February 2011 issue

Over sixty design professionals and academics contribute to this guide outlining fundamental principles of universal design. Covering architecture, public and private spaces, products and technologies, chapters discuss theoretical and practical topics in design for persons across the spectrum of human abilities, such as adherence to the UN convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, specific national guidelines for universal design around the world, public space accessibility in transportation, work and play, universal bathrooms, automobiles and media, and teaching universal design. The volume contains numerous illustrations and this second edition includes new and updated articles reflecting advances in theory and technology since the text’s original printing in 2001. (Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

About the Author

Wolfgang F.E. Preiser (Scottsdale, Arizona) is Emeritus Professor of Architecture, University of Cincinnati. As a researcher and an international building consultant, he has worked on topics ranging from universal design to facility programming, building performance assessments, health care facilities, and intercultural design in general. He is widely published—with 16 books and over 100 chapters, articles, and conference papers to hiscredit—and is the recipient of the Progressive Architecture Applied Research Award and Citation and the EDRA Career and Lifetime Achievement awards.

Korydon H. Smith (Fayetteville, Arkansas) is Associate Professor in the Fay Jones School of Architecture at the University of Arkansas. Professor Smith teaches courses in architectural design and theory, and has received numerous teaching awards. His scholarship focuses on the physical and political roles of design in society, resulting in a wide variety of publications and design works. In addition, Smith is actively involved in continuing education, as well as the transformation of housing policy and design practices throughout the U.S.

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