BOILER HOUSE PRACTICE
Written by J.N. Williams
Published by George Allen & Unwin Ltd.
in 1953
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- ENGINEERING
BOILER HOUSE PRACTICE
Written by J.N. Williams.
Stock no. 2126563
1st.
1953.
Hardback.
Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.
'Up-to-the-minute' information and descriptions of the recent developments in boiler house practice. Light grey cloth with red title to spine. 600 pages, including index. Top edge dyed red. B/w diagrams. Bumping to corners. Some fading to cover edges. Inscription in ink to verso of front endpaper. Page browning. Wrapper is edge-creased and torn with chips; a little loss; some browning and scuffs.
Front cover
Contents
- Preface
- The Theory of Combustion
- The Practice of Combustion
- Heat Transmission
- Steam
- Shell Boilers
- Furnaces and Grates for Shell Boilers
- Boiler Operation (1) - Shell Boilers
- Water-Tube Boilers
- Mechanical Stokers
- Superheaters, Economisers and Air-Heaters
- Boiler Operation (2) - Water-Tube Boilers
- Coal Storage and Handling
- Coal
- Coke and Coke Breeze
- Oil-Fired Boilers
- Pulverised Fuel Firing
- Boiler Control
- Water
- Boiler Feeding
- Refractory, Insulating Materials and Lagging
- Chimney Emissions
- Flue Gas Cleaning
- The Cleaning Maintenance of Boilers
- Measurements and Tests
- Finale
- Appendix
- Index