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Industrial Machinery Repair Best Maintenance Practices Pocket Guide by Ricky Smith. This book addresses, in a simplistic manner, the proper principles and techniques in Best Maintenance Practices in Mechanical engineering. This book is necessary for maintenance personnel to keep equipment operating at peak reliability and companies functioning more profitably through …

Introduction to Thermal and fluid engineering by Deborah A. Kaminski and M. K. Jensen. This textbook is a fresh approach to the teaching of thermal and fluids engineering as an integrated subject. Other objectives are to present appropriate material at an introductory level on thermodynamics, heat transfer, and fluid mechanics …

Basic shaft alignment workbook by John A. Piotrowski. This Workbook is primarily used as a training guide for people attending shaft alignment training courses and then, hopefully as a field guide for the tradesperson, technician, foreman, and engineer doing machinery alignment in the field. I have tried to keep the …

First steam turbine and History of steam turbines Historically, the first steam turbine of which we have proof was built by Heron of Alexandria around 175 BC, which consisted of a metal sphere with two nozzles at their poles and was oriented in the same direction where the steam escaped. …

An Easy Guide to Health and Safety: Ensuring Workplace Safety and Well-being Health and safety are critical components in any workplace environment. Ensuring the well-being of employees, visitors, and contractors is vital not only for compliance but also for fostering a productive and efficient work environment. This guide will walk …

Fundamentals of Preventive Maintenance Preventive maintenance (PM) is a critical strategy for ensuring the longevity, reliability, and efficiency of equipment in any facility. Rather than waiting for a piece of equipment to fail, preventive maintenance involves regularly scheduled inspections, servicing, and repairs to address issues before they become major problems. …

Practical Lubrication for Industrial Facilities 2nd edition by Heinz P. Bloch. The book provides practical and important lubrication and lubricant topics into a format that satisfies such principal requirements as technical relevance, readability, and applicability to the widely varying needs of modern industrial plants. Modern industrial plants include appliance makers, …

A Textbook of Machine Design by R.S. Khurmi and  J.K. GUPTA. (A Textbook for the Students of Mechanical Engineering Degree, Diploma, and A.M.I.E. classes in M.K.S. and S.I. units pdf. The objective of this book is to present the subject matter in a most concise, compact, to-the-point, and lucid manner. …

Advanced Power Plant Materials, Design, and Technology The energy landscape is evolving rapidly, with advancements in power plant materials, designs, and technologies helping to meet increasing energy demands, improve efficiency, and minimize environmental impacts. The implementation of cutting-edge technologies in thermal and gas-based power generation systems has opened up new …

Heat and Thermodynamics Introduction Heat is a form of energy that plays a central role in the natural world and in various technological applications. Thermodynamics, the branch of physics concerned with the study of heat and its transformation into other forms of energy, helps us understand how heat flows and …

Operator’s Guide to General Purpose Steam Turbines by  David W. Lawhon and Robert X. Perez. An Overview of Operating Principles, Construction, Best Practices, and Troubleshooting. The major goal of this book is to provide readers with detailed operating procedure aimed at reducing these risks to minimal levels. Start-ups are complicated by the …

Centrifugal pumps design and application by Val S. Lobanoff. an easy-to-understand book that could be of hands-on use to the pump designer, student, and rotating equipment engineer. The design of chemical pumps and manufacturing techniques used in nonmetallic pump applications is included in the book. knowledge necessary to extend pump …