Industrial Books

CONTENTS
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- Steam Generation - An Overview

- Thermodymanics of Steam

- Fluid Dynamics

- Heat Transfer

- Boiling Heat Transfer, Two-Phase Flow and Circulation

- Metallurgy, Materials and Mechanical Properties

- Structural Analysis and Design

- Sources of Chemical Energy

- Principles of Combustion

- Oil and Gas Utilization

- Solid Fuel Processing and Handling

- Coal Pulverization

- Burners and Combustion Systems for Pulverized Coal

- Cyclones

- Stokers

- Atmospheric Fluidized-Bed Boilers

- Coal Gasification

- Boilers, Superheaters and Reheaters

- Economizers and Air Heaters

- Fuel Ash Effects on Boiler Design and Operation

- Performance Calculations

- Boiler Enclosures, Casing and Insulation

- Boiler Auxiliaries

- Fossil Fuel Boilers for Electric Power

- Fossil Fuel Boilers for Industry and Small Power

- Chemical and Heat Recovery in the Paper Industry

- Waste-to-Energy Installations

- Wood and Biomass Installations

- Pressurized Fluidized-Bed Combustion

- Marine Applications

- Combined Cycles, Waste Heat Recovery and Other Steam Systems

- Environmental Considerations

- Particulate Control

- Nitrogen Oxides Control

- Sulfur Dioxide Control

- Environmental Measurement

- Equipment Specification, Economics and Evaluation

- Manufacturing

- Construction

- Pressure, Temperature, Steam Quality and Flow Measurement

- Controls for Fossil Fuel-Fired Steam Generating Plants

- Water Chemistry, Water Treatment and Corrosion

- Fossil Fuel Boiler Operations

- Routine Maintenance

- Condition Assessment

- Life Extension and Upgrades

- Nuclear Installations for Electric Power

- Nuclear Fuels

- Principles of Nuclear Reactions

- Nuclear Steam Supply Systems and Safety

- Nuclear Ship Propulsion

- Nuclear Equipment Manufacture

- Water Chemistry Considerations in Nuclear Systems

- Nuclear Operations

- Service, Life Extension and Enhancements

- Nuclear Waste Management

- Balance of Plant Equipment

- Appendix 1 Conversion Factors, SI Steam Properties and Useful Tables

- Appendix 2 Codes and Standards Symbols and Abbreviations Index

CONTENTS
--------------

- Steam Generation - An Overview

- Thermodymanics of Steam

- Fluid Dynamics

- Heat Transfer

- Boiling Heat Transfer, Two-Phase Flow and Circulation

- Metallurgy, Materials and Mechanical Properties

- Structural Analysis and Design

- Sources of Chemical Energy

- Principles of Combustion

- Oil and Gas Utilization

- Solid Fuel Processing and Handling

- Coal Pulverization

- Burners and Combustion Systems for Pulverized Coal

- Cyclones

- Stokers

- Atmospheric Fluidized-Bed Boilers

- Coal Gasification

- Boilers, Superheaters and Reheaters

- Economizers and Air Heaters

- Fuel Ash Effects on Boiler Design and Operation

- Performance Calculations

- Boiler Enclosures, Casing and Insulation

- Boiler Auxiliaries

- Fossil Fuel Boilers for Electric Power

- Fossil Fuel Boilers for Industry and Small Power

- Chemical and Heat Recovery in the Paper Industry

- Waste-to-Energy Installations

- Wood and Biomass Installations

- Pressurized Fluidized-Bed Combustion

- Marine Applications

- Combined Cycles, Waste Heat Recovery and Other Steam Systems

- Environmental Considerations

- Particulate Control

- Nitrogen Oxides Control

- Sulfur Dioxide Control

- Environmental Measurement

- Equipment Specification, Economics and Evaluation

- Manufacturing

- Construction

- Pressure, Temperature, Steam Quality and Flow Measurement

- Controls for Fossil Fuel-Fired Steam Generating Plants

- Water Chemistry, Water Treatment and Corrosion

- Fossil Fuel Boiler Operations

- Routine Maintenance

- Condition Assessment

- Life Extension and Upgrades

- Nuclear Installations for Electric Power

- Nuclear Fuels

- Principles of Nuclear Reactions

- Nuclear Steam Supply Systems and Safety

- Nuclear Ship Propulsion

- Nuclear Equipment Manufacture

- Water Chemistry Considerations in Nuclear Systems

- Nuclear Operations

- Service, Life Extension and Enhancements

- Nuclear Waste Management

- Balance of Plant Equipment

- Appendix 1 Conversion Factors, SI Steam Properties and Useful Tables

- Appendix 2 Codes and Standards Symbols and Abbreviations Index

According to the author, in terms of economic changes, e-business will eventually dominate the traditional business practice. The industries that will be transformed by e-business included stock brokerage, insurance, travel, auto, chemicals, media and entertainment, computer and electronics, telecommunications, real estate, medicine and health care, etc. As Dr. Canton suggested, if we want to survive through the 21st century, we must learn how to adopt e-business technology.

In terms of social impacts, technology will bring impacts at both the personal and collective levels. In the future, our personal lives will involve computers, robots and virtual reality. Robots and computers will play a role as a companion such as a housekeeper, a secretary, or even a friend to human. And as for human, we will engage more activities via virtual reality such as playing golf. For the latter one, educational changes will be a good example. Educational institutions will change their formats of teaching. Instead of the traditional classroom learning, students and teachers will meet via virtual schools.

By means of frequent sidebars, the author has provided readers an insight of our evolving technological world with vivid scenes and dialogues amongst the robots, cyber companions and human. However, the design and placement of these sidebars, often of similar fonts right in between the texts proper, could sometimes be confusing. Also, the author could have arranged the hierarchy, if any, of the sub- and sub-sub-titles of his chapters better, so that the readers can better digest the often far-fetched subject matters. Indeed, the subject matters discussed sometimes verged on science fiction rather than scientific prediction. This is most evident in the author¡¦s discussion of cyborgs and androids, all, perhaps coincidentally, also prominently featured in Star Trek: The Next Generation. I do appreciate, however, the author¡¦s efforts in making technical matters easier to understand for lay persons. There is, as far as I can see, no one single formula in the book. The author is also good in presenting moral issues for deeper thoughts, such as that concerning eugenics.

Although Dr. Canton¡¦s future world may seem too advanced for most of us, we are in fact living in an information society. This book has provided me a chance to be aware of our technological developments and dare me to envision our future world from a non-traditional perspective. Overall, I enjoy reading the book.

I highly recommend this book for any business that has or is implementing a telework program and would make it required reading for all teleworkers in that program.

While some other books dwell too much on details of home office setup (which this book does cover thoroughly in ch 4) Dziak is by far the most insightful about the real challenges of telecommuting, which are social issues of staying in touch. The book gives prescriptive advice in easily-digestable forms. Dziak is quite fond of top-10 lists, but manages to pack a lot of good content into this somewhat gimmicky format. My most-reference part of the book was his '10 Ways to stay on the corporate radar screen' (p. 181).

This important book begins the necessary critical conversation of defining the fundamental of concepts and terms, as well as those areas of current and future applications, involved in the merging of health care delivery and high technology systems. The authors wisely suggest using the term Telehealth to address the broad range of health applications which high technology, the Internet in particular, can greatly impact.

These concerns are set in the context of both a historical view of health care and society, particularly in the more technologically developed societies of the U.S. Western Europe and Japan, and these societiesÕ current and future trends toward change of lifestyle driven by their adaptation of new technologies. These are vital concerns, both within health care delivery in particular, as well as within the economic and social evolution of these societies in general.

Their book focuses on the patientÕs experience of health care service as facilitated by this new technology rather than being yet another discussion of the fascinating innovations within the technology itself, a very important distinction.

Being physicians themselves, authors Darkins and Cary have professionally grown up through the very cusp of change they are defining for us; they know the pre-high technology delivery of health care and have been witness to, and advocates for, the introduction of high technology to the health care systems in which each have worked, both in the U.S. and England.

Their book is both comprehensive in its discussion of the issues involved as well as being detailed in its coverage of those particulars necessary to see the overall picture clearly.

Because of the timeliness of this merging of high technology and healthcare delivery, one wishes this book could be made more available to a wider reading public through a greater promotional effort by the publisher.

Howard Rheingold, former Editor of the Whole Earth Review and one of the pure-gold original thinkers in the Stewart Brand and Kevin Kelly circle, lays down a serious challange to both decisionmakers and software producers that has yet to be fully understood. Originally published in 1985, this book was a "must read" at the highest levels of advanced information processing circles then, but sadly its brilliant and coherent message has yet to take hold--largely because bureaucratic budgets and office politics are major obstacles to implementing new models where the focus is on empowering the employee rather than crunching financial numbers.

This book is a foundation reading for understanding why the software Bill Gates produces (and the Application Program Interfaces he persists in concealing) will never achieve the objectives that Howard and others believe are within our grasp--a desktop toolkit that not only produces multi-media documents without crashing ten times a day, but one that includes modeling & simulation, structured argument analysis, interactive search and retrieval of the deep web as well as commercial online systems, and geospatially-based heterogeneous data set visualization--and more--the desktop toolkit that emerges logically from Howard's vision must include easy clustering and linking of related data across sets, statistical analysis to reveal anomalies and identify trends in data across time, space, and topic, and a range of data conversion, machine language translation, analog video management, and automated data extraction from text and images. How hard can this be? VERY HARD. Why? Because no one is willing to create a railway guage standard in cyberspace that legally mandates the transparency and stability of Application Program Interfaces (API). Rheingold gets it, Gates does not. What a waste!

It's also a pretty entertaining read, though I think the author gives a bit too much credit to von Neuman.

The novel feature of the book is the way in which past interviews are brought up to date and the interviewees give their opinions on the differences between what they predicted and what happened.

The writing is excellent and very accessible. The interviewees come across as very normal people (which indeed they are) but it is very easy to forget they were still amongst the movers and shakers of computing in the late 20th century.

I think this book is a valuble work for those who see technology are more than just a vehicle for making money.

Time has marched on, and this book is the new replacement for both!

Carter and Williams wrote a very easy to read, yet well detailed, text and reference for TEM. They cover quite literally everything, in just the right level of detail for 1st or 2nd year grad students.

This book is the best way to get a quick grasp of TEM.