Boiler operator's handbook / by Kenneth E. Heselton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Heselton, Kenneth E., 1943- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Steam-boilers--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Steam-boilers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (503 p.)

Edition:

Second edition.

Distribution:

Boca Raton, Florida ; London, England : Taylor & Francis Ltd., [date of distribution not identified]

Place of Publication:

Lilburn, Georgia : The Fairmont Press, Inc. : CRC Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Contents:

""Front ""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Preface To the Second Edition""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Introduction""; ""Operating Wisely""; ""Boiler Plant Operations""; ""What the Wise Operator Knows""; ""Special Systems""; ""Refrigeration and Air Conditioning""; ""Maintenance""; ""Consumables""; ""Water Treatment""; ""Strength of Materials""; ""Plants and Equipment""; ""Controls""; ""Why They Fail""; ""Properties of Water and Steam""; ""Water Pressure per Foot Head""; ""Nominal Capacities of Pipe""; ""Properties of Pipe""; ""Secondary Ratings""; ""Pressure Ratings for Various Pipe Materials""

""Square Root Flow Curve""""Square Root Graph Paper""; ""Viscosity Conversions""; ""Thermal Expansion of Materials""; ""Value Conversions""; ""Combustion and Efficiency Calculation Sheets""; ""Excess Air/O2 Curve""; ""Properties of Dowtherm A""; ""Properties of Dowtherm J""; ""Chemical Tank Mixing Table""; ""Suggested Mnemonic Abbreviations""; ""Specific Heats of Some Common Materials""; ""Design Temperatures and Degree Days""; ""Code Symbol Stamps""; ""Index""

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-68015-479-6

0-88173-731-3

OCLC:

880579967