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Industrial Boilers and Heat Recovery Steam Generators: Design, Applications, and Calculations (Mechanical Engineering (Marcell Dekker)) | 
 enlarge | Author: V. Ganapathy
Publisher: CRC
Category: Book
List Price: $249.95
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 426786
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Pages: 646
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.2
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 6.8 x 1.4
ISBN: 0824708148
Dewey Decimal Number: 621.183
EAN: 9780824708146
ASIN: 0824708148
Publication Date: October 16, 2002
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Product Description
Filled with over 225 boiler/HRSG operation and design problems, this book covers steam generators and related systems used in process plants, refineries, chemical plants, electrical utilities, and other industrial settings. Emphasizing the thermal engineering aspects, the author provides information on the design and performance of steam generators and heat recovery boilers. He helps those involved in development understand which questions to ask when selecting a steam generator for their project. The book includes many easy to use calculations and effectively explains the theory behind the design and performance of all types of boilers, superheaters and economizers including specialty boilers.
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 Shallow and archaic December 2, 2007
F David Doty PhD (Columbia, SC United States)
It's not at all clear who this book is written for. It's probably not very useful to those not familiar with the specialized jargon of the boiler industry. It's certainly of no value to anyone outside the U.S., where modern units are used. The treatments of thermodynamic cycles demonstrate a lack of deep understanding and even interest. Perhaps the best that can be said for it is that the numerous solved problems on heat transfer may be of value to engineers needing similar problems solved in English units, but the treatments may not be easy to apply to slightly different situations. It's really time to just start boycotting books and articles that are not in SI units. -F. David Doty, PhD.
 A good introductory book ONLY April 30, 2006
TYL (Los Angeles, CA USA)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I purchased this book because of Mr. Ganapathy's fame in the subject area and the attractive title of the book. My primary interest is in waste heat boiler design in petroleum refining applications. My comments here pertains to this area only.
The book gives a very brief survey of various types of boilers and HRSG's and their operations. The chapter on "Heat Transfer Equipment Design and Performance" offers simple published correlations to estimate parameters in boiler and HRSG designs. They are good for rough performance check but I will not use them in actual designs. In fact, I doubted Mr. Ganopathy uses these simple correlations in his own designs.
Mr. Ganapathy, despite his extensive experience in the subject area, did not spend much ink on critical design issues such as the danger of thermal induced dryout and differential thermal expansion of different components and design methodologies to avoid them.
This is a good book for someone who wishes to gain a basic understanding of boilers and HRSG's. It has little value for those who are in the business of actual designing such equipments.
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