Handbook for Cogeneration and Combined Cycle Power Plants (Hardcover)

by Meherwan P. Boyce (Author)

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Product Description
This new reference covers all major aspects of power plant design, operation, and maintenance. It covers cycle optimization and reliability, technical details on sizing, plant layout, fuel selection, types of drives, and performance characteristics of all major components in a cogeneration or combined cycle power plant. The author discusses design, fabrication, installation, operation, and maintenance. Many illustrations, curves, and tables are used throughout the text. Special features include: comparison of various energy systems; latest cycles and power augmentation techniques; reviews and benefits of the latest codes; detailed analysis of available equipment; descriptions of all major equipment in CCPP; techniques for improving plant reliability and maintainability; testing and plant evaluation techniques; and advantages and disadvantages of fuels.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 560 pages
• Publisher: American Society of Mechanical Engineers (January 1, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0791801691
• ISBN-13: 978-0791801697
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,583,286 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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2.0 out of 5 stars Poorly written, organized and edited...and overpriced, January 2, 2009

By	A power generation engineer (Alaska) - See all my reviews

While the author may be a recognized authority in the subject,this book could have been greatly improved by professional editing - it reads as if there was in fact no oversight because redundancy, weak grammatical structure, and mispellings are common. The narrative is not well organized either and appears as if transcribed from conversation. However, the greatest flaw of this book is its lack of rigor; a few equations oftentime provide much better clarity than attempts at descriptive illustration. There are lots of graphs, but it devolves onto the reader as to their analytical origins. This book was a huge disappointment and is not recommended. If you're not an engineer, but merely interested in the basic workings of a combined cycle plant, obtain this book from a library. Otherwise one would be much better served by a thermodynamics text and manufacturers' literature. The appalling lack of sound mathematical treatment renders this book nearly useless to an engineer.