Book suggestions
Book suggestions
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I'm looking to buy book pertaining to boiler design and power plant deign, can anyone give me a few titles/authors to look up on Amazon. I just started in an Energy division and don't have any books to help me out. I am constantly borrowing the older guys books, but most are out of date or I can't find them on the 'net.





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RE: Book suggestions
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I have a book entitled "Combustion: Fossil Power Systems" by Combustion Engineering, Inc. Its copyright is 1981, but it seems pretty relevant. Lots of good performance curves and stuff about fuel in general.
Another book on my shelf is "The Control of Boilers" by Sam G. Dukelow copyright 1991. Haven't had a chance to delve too much into this one, but it looks pretty thorough. This one might be difficult to find.
For heat exchangers, check out "Steam Surface Condensers" by Richard E. Putman copyright 2001. Performance and efficiency study techniques and evaluations. The title says specifically condensers but there is alot that could apply to feedwater heaters and DA's.
Check out Ebay for books as well.
I personally am still looking for a good turbine/generator book.
~Sam
RE: Book suggestions
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I am going to look up the big boys (Riley, Foster-Wheeler, BnW) and see if they have any books online.
Thanks jetman1, I'll look that one up too.
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Ken Cotton's Evaluating and improving steam plant performance.
B & W STEAM
100 years of power plant development is good.
Combustion fossil power by combustion engineering is good
If you have access to EPRI material there is gobs of good reads.
Martin "foundations" is a good reference for material handling
You gotta have Crane "410"
Get you a steam tables book and keep it handy and learn how to use it
but the most valuable is none of these.
here is a secret
the most valuable references are the vendor manuals provided by the OEM's of your plant. For the turbine that would be GE or westinghouse or alstom. For the boiler it would be CE or B&W or whoever. Pumps, condenser, etc. Take those home and flip thru them at night and you will be a power plant whiz before you know it.
Here are some recommended short course if you can get your company to send you:
General Physics Fundamentals of Power Plant performance
MDA's Evaluating and improving steam turbine performance
ASME has got a bunch of short courses on boiler code and power piping that are valuable.
Final thought. Listen to the operators.