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Boilers and Burners: Design and Theory (Mechanical Engineering Series)

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I read this book with hopes of some insight to operation experiences. The design explanations are very good for boiler and burner engineering.

This book is filled with more errors than one can count right from the beginning when the authors thank their "waves" to equations not unit balancing and mislabeled figures. I have given up correcting it with red pen. I just don't use it, I don't trust it.

I feel I have wasted my money. I wish I just bought the B&W Steam Book. That is a fantastic book.

Although the book is chock-full of equations (both empirical and derived) and qualitative graphs, I found that it has virtually no utility for the practical engineer. Add to this that nearly all of the units produced from the equations are in metric (a very annoying thing in the English-dominated power industry). In the book's defence, some of the theory was helpful in understanding how certain elements function on a technical level, but there were several errors and bizarre units. Clarifying the formulae into a form that is comprehensible takes a considerable amount of time by the reader. It's not a completely terrible book, but rather it was simply not what I needed.