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PREFACE

This handbook presents some 2500 calculation procedures in the field of
energy engineering. Each calculation procedure is presented in both the

USCS (United States Customary System) and the SI (System International).
Thus, engineers and designers worldwide will find that each calculation uses
familiar units. Therefore, this handbook is usable by engineers and designers
in every country in the world. Further, many of the calculation procedures are

unique—the engineer and designer will rarely find these procedures in other
books, on the Internet, or in reports or technical papers. The author/editor is
currently, and has been, preparing, using, studying, and collecting, unique
and routine calculation procedures during his long active and varied

engineering career.
Topics covered in this handbook include combustion of fossil fuels (the
conversion of energy from one form to another usable form), steam-power
plants, gas-turbine power generation, internal-combustion engine power

plants, nuclear power generation, hydro power plants, and alternative energy
generation via wind turbines, ocean tidal power, underwater tidal current
power, solar power, geothermal energy power, and several other schemes for
using nature’s forces to generate power. This handbook also includes

calculations of heat transfer and energy conservation, fluids transfer energy
engineering, interior climate control energy economics, and energy
conservation and environmental pollution control.
In preparing this handbook the author has been constantly aware of the

effects on global warming produced by power generators of various kinds,
especially those using fossil fuels. Some experts report that more than half of
atmospheric greenhouse gases emitted today are produced by power
generation using fossil fuels.

Because of the emphasis on global warming throughout the world, each
calculation procedure in this handbook recognizes the impact the particular
form of power generation has on greenhouse gases. Some methods of power
generation directly produce undesirable atmospheric effluents. Other “clean”

or “green” power generation methods are responsible for atmospheric