Gas Turbine Handbook: Principles and Practice, Second Edition (Kindle Edition)

Review
… provides all the fundamental mechanical details any need to understand the operation an application of all kinds of gas turbines. Hardware, typical applications, parameters, controls, troubleshooting – It’s all covered in an edition which sports a new chapter on microturbines and new case studies. The author has over thirty years of experience in installing, operating and maintaining equipment and controls for both on- and off-shore environments, is a registered engineer in different states, and has written many articles for technical journals. You just can’t get more authoritative – or any clearer – than this. —In The California Bookwatch, June 2006

The second edition of a bestseller, this comprehensive reference provides the fundamental information required to understand both the operation and proper application of all types of gas turbines. The completely updated second edition adds a new section on use of inlet cooling for power augmentation and NOx control. It explores the full spectrum of gas turbines hardware, typical application scenarios, and operating parameters, controls, inlet treatments, inspection, trouble-shooting, and more. The author discusses strategies that can help readers avoid problems before they occur and provides tips that enable diagnosis of problems in their early stages and analysis of failures to prevent their recurrence.

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