Hicks Tyler G. (Editor). Handbook of energy engineering calculations

McGraw-Hill Publication: 2012. — 1138 p. — ISBN: 978-0-07-174553-6.This handbook presents some 2500 calculation procedures in the field of energy engineering. Each calculation procedure is presented in both the USCS (United States Customary System) and the SI (System International). Thus, engineers and designers worldwide will find that each calculation uses familiar units. Therefore, this handbook is usable by engineers and designers in every country in the world. Further, many of the calculation procedures are unique — the engineer and designer will rarely find these procedures in other books, on the Internet, or in reports or technical papers. The author/editor is currently, and has been, preparing, using, studying, and collecting, unique and routine calculation procedures during his long active and varied engineering career. Topics covered in this handbook include combustion of fossil fuels (the conversion of energy from one form to another usable form), steam-power plants, gas-turbine power generation, internal-combustion engine power plants, nuclear power generation, hydro power plants, and alternative energy generation via wind turbines, ocean tidal power, underwater tidal current power, solar power, geothermal energy power, and several other schemes for using nature’s forces to generate power. This handbook also includes calculations of heat transfer and energy conservation, fluids transfer energy engineering, interior climate control energy economics, and energy conservation and environmental pollution control.Contributors and Advisers Preface Acknowledgments.
How to Use This Handbook.
Contributors and Advisers Preface Acknowledgments.
How to Use This Handbook.
Energy Conversion Engineering.
Steam Power Generation.
Gas-Turbine Energy Power Generation.
Internal-Combustion Engine Energy Analyses Section 5. Nuclear Energy Engineering.
Hydroelectric Energy Power Plants.
Wind-Power Energy Design and Application Section 8. Solar-Power Energy Application and Usage Section 9. Geothermal Energy Engineering.
Ocean Energy Engineering.
Heat Transfer and Energy Conservation Section 12. Fluid Transfer Engineering.
Interior Climate Control Energy Economics.
Energy Conservation and Environmental Pollution Control.