Tag Archives: Power Plant

Power Plant Equipment Operation and Maintenance Guide Maximizing efficiency and profitability by Philip Kiameh. The book provides detailed coverage of different types of power plants, including the following: modern cogeneration, combined-cycle IGCC; plants that burn coal, petroleum coke, Orimulsion, biomass, and municipal waste. This book provides the reader with a …

Steam Plant Operation latest pdf by Everett B. Woodruff. This Edition of Steam Plant Operation reviews all sources of energy and how they contribute to the production of electricity. It points out the risks and potential problems that each source of energy faces. But the book continues to emphasize the …

Handbook of Large Turbo Generator Operation and Maintenance by Geoff Klempner and Isidor Kerszenbaum. This book is designed to partially fill the gap by offering a comprehensive view of the many issues related to the operation, inspection, maintenance, and troubleshooting of large turbine generators. The contents of this third edition …

Engineering Fundamentals of the Internal Combustion Engine by Willard W. Pulkrabek. This applied thermoscience book covers the basic principles and applications of various types of internal combustion engines. This book was written to be used as an applied thermoscience textbook in a one-semester, college-level, undergraduate engineering course on internal combustion …

Wind Power Plants Fundamentals, Design, Construction, and Operation by R. Gasch. This book offers a comprehensive guide to the fundamentals, design, construction, and operation of wind turbines. Wind power plants teach the physical foundations of usage of Wind Power. It includes areas like Construction of Wind Power Plants, Design, Development …

The objective of this article is to provide power plant personnel with a basic understanding of the major components of the combined cycle power plant and the role of each component to achieve optimum plant efficiency. There are many different types of power plants including thermal and hydraulic power plants. …

Practical Boiler Operation Engineering Power plants by Amiya Ranjan Mallick. The book covers the entire cross-functional aspects of a thermal power plant. Some basic concepts of engineering related to power plants are discussed in Chapters 1, 2, 3 and 4. Water chemistry which is very important for a boiler is …

Power plant Construction Management A Survival Guide. Although the book title and its supporting examples are specifically power plant oriented, the fundamental theories and practices discussed within are applicable to any construction endeavor, from power plant construction to road building, from refinery construction to chemical process plant expansions, and for …

Standard Handbook of Power plant Engineering by Kao Chen, Robert Swanekamp, and Thomas. The Book covers in considerable detail the systems and equipment comprising the modern industrial and utility powerplants. The handbook is designed to appeal to engineers in electric utilities, process and manufacturing industries, commercial and institutional buildings, plus …

Gas Turbine Engineering Handbook 4th edition by Meherwan P. Boyce. This book deals with case histories of gas turbines from deterioration of the performance of gas turbines to failures encountered in all the major components of the gas turbine. The chapter on Maintenance Techniques has been completely rewritten and updated. …

Advanced power plant materials design and technology by Dermot Roddy. This book is aimed at power industry practitioners and academic researchers and contains material from a blend of the two. The aim throughout is to provide a well-referenced appraisal of the state of the art with guidance on where to …

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 …