Research Catalog

Title

Steam, its generation and use / Babcock & Wilcox Company ; edited by J.B. Kitto and S.C. Stultz.

Publication

Barberton, OH : Babcock & Wilcox, ©2005.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Kitto, John B.
• Stultz, S. C. (Steven C.)
• Babcock & Wilcox Company.

Description

1 volume (various pagings), 8 pages of plates : illustrations (some color), plans; 29 cm

Summary

From the books cover: Steam/Edition: 41. The Babcock & Wilcox Company. Representing 140 years of power generation leadership. This is Edition: 41 of Steam/its generation and use, a book by the Babcock & Wilcox Company that details advances in production of steam and the utilization of all types of fuels. This edition has been thoroughly updated and revised including completely rewritten sections on environmental protection, emissions control, and advanced steam generator designs for the 21st century. Today, The Babcock & Wilcox Company is an internationally acknowledged leader in all aspects of steam generation from fundamentals and research, to engineering and manufacturing, service and construction, and protection of the environment.

Alternative Title

Steam 41

Subject

• Steam-boilers, Water-tube
• Steam, Superheated

Note

• Earlier edition published 1992.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Acknowledgments -- Systems of unites: English And systeme international -- Editor's foreword -- Selected color plates, Edition: 41 -- Steam Fundamentals: -- Steam Generation -- An Overview -- Thermodymanics of steam -- Fluid dynamics -- Heat transfer -- Boiling heat transfer, two-phase flow and circulation -- Numerical modeling for fluid flow, heat transfer, and combustion -- Metallurgy, materials and mechanical properties -- Structural analysis and design -- Steam Generation From Chemical Energy: -- 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 -- Cyclone furnaces -- Stokers -- Fluidized-bed combustion -- 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 cleaning and ash handling systems -- Boiler Auxiliaries -- Applications Of Steam: -- Fossil fuel boilers for electric power -- Boilers for industry and small power -- Chemical and heat recovery in the paper industry -- Waste-to-energy installations -- Wood and biomass installations -- Marine applications -- Environmental Protection: -- Environmental considerations -- Particulate control -- Nitrogen oxides control -- Sulfur dioxide control -- Environmental measurement -- Specification, Manufacturing And Construction: -- Equipment specification, economics and evaluation -- Manufacturing -- Construction -- Operations: -- Pressure, temperature, steam quality and flow measurement -- Controls for fossil fuel-fired steam generating plants -- Water and steam chemistry, deposits and corrosion -- Boiler operations -- Service And Maintenance: -- Maintaining availability -- Condition assessment -- Steam Generation From Nuclear Energy: -- Steam generation from nuclear energy -- Fundamentals of nuclear energy -- Nuclear steam generators -- Nuclear services and operations -- Nuclear equipment manufacture -- Appendices: -- Appendix 1: Conversion factors, SI steam properties and useful tables -- Codes and standards -- Symbols, acronyms and abbreviations -- B & W trademarks in edition: 41 -- Index.

ISBN

• 0963457012
• 9780963457011

OCLC

• ocm65527769
• 65527769
• SCSB-9271399

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library