"Boiler Operations Questions and Answers, Second Edition" is the essential reference on the job, on the exam. Want to specify, operate, or troubleshoot a boiler system - fast? Whether you're an operator, inspector, maintenance engineer, or technician, this guide's your direct route to the answers you need in day-to-day boiler and pressure vessel operations. Chances are, any question that's likely to come up - whether it's on processes, equipment, safety, water treatment, steam generation, fuels, maintenance, inspection, repair, or some other issue - is answered in these pages. And this book's more than 3000 questions and answers closely parallel those you'll encounter on ASME's Boiler Operator's Exam, making "Boiler Operations Questions and Answers" a perfect study tool that helps you make the grade.With this unique guide, you can: solve mathematical problems step by step with 150 worked examples; update your Boiler Code expertise with a guide that includes all the latest changes; learn, remember, and apply the material more easily with 400+ illustrations; turn to reference sections and tables for quick access to data, definitions, and formulas; and, discover expert answers on all boiler and pressure vessel issues, from combustion through corrosion and nuclear generation. This title covers: accessories, air heaters, analytic procedures, ash handling, auxiliaries, calculations, chemical treatments, circulation, combustion, condensers, contamination, corrosion, cycles, demineralization, deposits, draft, dust collection, economizers, energy from waste, evaporators, feedwater treatment, generators, heat transfer, heating surfaces, high-pressure, hydraulic systems, inspection, maintenance, materials, mountings, nuclear generation, pollution, control, scaling, sludge, specific heats, specifications, superheaters, temperature control, turbines and water treatment.
| ISBN | 0071356754 | | Volumes | 1 | | ISBN13 | 9780071356756
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 2314 | | Publisher | McGraw-Hill Education - Europe | | Published in | London | | Imprint | McGraw-Hill Professional | | Series title | Professional Engineering | | Format | Paperback | | Previous ISBN | 9780074602966 | | Publication date | 01 Jan 2001 | | Height (mm) | 243 | | Library of Congress | 2001265694 | | Width (mm) | 195 | | DEWEY | 621.183076 | | Spine width (mm) | 55 | | DEWEY edition | DC21 | | Academic level | Tertiary education | | Pages | 640 | |
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| | | Preface to the Second Edition | | |
| | | Preface to the First Edition | | |
| | | Acknowledgements | | |
| | | Nomenclature | | |
| 1 | | Boilers | | 1 |
| 2 | | High Pressure Boilers | | 100 |
| 3 | | Boiler Auxiliaries | | 109 |
| 4 | | Boiler Mountings and Accessories | | 126 |
| 5 | | Boiler Operation Inspection and Maintenance | | 176 |
| 6 | | Boiler Calculations | | 206 |
| 7 | | Draught | | 230 |
| 8 | | Primary Fuels | | 246 |
| 9 | | Principles of Combustion | | 268 |
| 10 | | The Chemistry of Combustion | | 288 |
| 11 | | Coal Pulverization | | 328 |
| 12 | | Pulverized Coal Fired Furnaces | | 343 |
| 13 | | Upgrading PC-Fired Boilers | | 357 |
| 14 | | Fuel Oil and Gas Fired Furnaces | | 376 |
| 15 | | Low NO[subscript x] Burners | | 393 |
| 16 | | Emissions Control | | 418 |
| 17 | | Dust Collection | | 449 |
| 18 | | Ash Handling System | | 478 |
| 19 | | Carryover, Scale and Sludge | | 488 |
| 20 | | Steam Contamination and Its Control | | 496 |
| 21 | | Prevention of Deposit Formation in Boiler Units | | 545 |
| 22 | | Characteristics of Steam-water Flow | | 560 |
| 23 | | Temperature Conditions and Heat Transfer | | 566 |
| 24 | | Hydrodynamics of Closed Hydraulic System | | 574 |
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