A Practical Guide to Compressor Technology by Heinz P. Bloch

A Practical Guide to Compressor Technology 2nd Edition by Heinz P. Bloch offers a thorough overview of the operating characteristics, efficiencies, design features, troubleshooting, and maintenance of dynamic and positive displacement process gas compressors. The author examines a wide spectrum of compressors used in heavy process industries, with an emphasis on improving reliability and avoiding failure. Readers learn both the theory underlying compressors as well as the myriad day-to-day practical issues and challenges that chemical engineers and plant operation personnel must address.

The text features:

• Latest design and manufacturing details of dynamic and positive displacement process gas compressors
• Examination of the full range of machines available for the heavy process industries
• Thorough presentation of the arrangements, material composition, and basic laws governing the design of all important process gas compressors
• Guidance on selecting optimum compressor configurations, controls, components, and auxiliaries to maximize reliability
• Monitoring and performance analysis for optimal machinery condition
• Systematic methods to avoid failure through the application of field-tested reliability enhancement concepts
• Fluid instability and externally pressurized bearings
• Reliability-driven asset management strategies for compressors
• Upstream separator and filter issues

The text's structure is carefully designed to build knowledge and skills by starting with key principles and then moving to more advanced material. Hundreds of photos depicting various types of compressors, components, and processes are provided throughout.
Compressors often represent a multi-million dollar investment for such applications as petrochemical processing and refining, refrigeration, pipeline transport, and turbochargers and superchargers for internal combustion engines. This text enables the broad range of engineers and plant managers who work with these compressors to make the most of the investment by leading them to the best decisions for selecting, operating, upgrading, maintaining, and troubleshooting.

Book Details
Hardcover: 590 pages
Publisher: Wiley-Interscience; 2 edition (September 14, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0471727938
ISBN-13: 978-0471727934

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Pump Handbook 4th Edition by Igor Karassik

Pump Handbook 4th Edition by Igor Karassik, Joseph Messina, Paul Cooper and Charles Heald has been fully revised and updated with the latest developments in pump technology. Packed with 1,150 detailed illustrations and written by a team of over 100 internationally renowned pump experts, this vital tool shows you how to select, purchase, install, operate, maintain, and troubleshoot cutting-edge pumps for all types of uses. The Fourth Edition of the Pump Handbook features:

• State-of-the-art guidance on every aspect of pump theory, design, application, and technology
• Over 100 internationally renowned contributors
• SI units used throughout the book
• New sections on centrifugal pump mechanical performance, flow analysis, bearings, adjustable-speed drives, and application to cryogenic LNG services; completely revised sections on pump theory, mechanical seals, intakes and suction piping, gears, and waterhammer; application to pulp and paper mills

Inside This Updated Guide to Pump Technology
• Classification and Selection of Pumps • Centrifugal Pumps • Displacement Pumps • Solids Pumping • Pump Sealing • Pump Bearings • Jet Pumps • Materials of Construction • Pump Drivers and Power Transmission • Pump Noise • Pump Systems • Pump Services • Intakes and Suction Piping • Selecting and Purchasing Pumps • Installation, Operation, and Maintenance • Pump Testing • Technical Data

Book Details
Series: Handbook
Hardcover: 1824 pages
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education; 4th edition (December 18, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0071460446
ISBN-13: 978-0071460446

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Practice Problems for the Mechanical Engineering PE Exam 13E

Practice Problems for the Mechanical Engineering PE Exam 13th Edition by Michael R. Lindeburg contains over 850 problems designed to reinforce your knowledge of the topics presented in the Mechanical Engineering Reference Manual. Over 300 new stand-alone, multiple-choice problems are designed to be solved in six-minute or less. These demonstrate the format of the NCEES Mechanical PE exam, and focus on individual engineering concepts. The remaining 550 problems are longer and more complex, challenging your skills in identifying and applying related engineering concepts.

Solutions are clearly written, complete, and easy to follow. U.S. customary and SI units are equally supported, and units are meticulously identified and carried through in all calculations. Frequent references to figures, tables, equations, and appendices in the Mechanical Engineering Reference Manual will direct you to relevant support material.

Book Details
Series: Comprehensive Practice for the Mechanical Pe Exam
Paperback: 584 pages
Publisher: Professional Publications, Inc.; Thirteenth Edition, New Edition edition (April 15, 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1591264154
ISBN-13: 978-1591264156

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Mechanical Engineering Reference Manual for the PE Exam 13E

Mechanical Engineering Reference Manual for the PE Exam 13th Edition by Michael R. Lindeburg PE has time-tested organization and clear explanations start with the basics to help you quickly get up to speed on common mechanical engineering concepts. Together, the 76 chapters provide an in-depth review of NCEES Mechanical PE exam topics. The extensive index contains thousands of terms, most indexed in a variety of ways, in anticipation of how you’ll search for them.

Features of the Mechanical Engineering Reference Manual:
- over 120 appendices containing essential support material
- over 375 clarifying example problems
- thousands of equations, figures, and tables
- industry-standard terminology and nomenclature
- equal support of U.S. customary and SI units

After you pass your exam, the Mechanical Engineering Reference Manual will continue to serve as an invaluable reference throughout your mechanical engineering career.

Book Details
Series: Mechanical Engineering Reference Manual
Hardcover: 1488 pages
Publisher: Professional Publications, Inc.; Thirteenth Edition edition (April 15, 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1591264146
ISBN-13: 978-1591264149

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Advanced Engineering Mathematics 10th Edition, Kreyszig

Advanced Engineering Mathematics 10th Edition by Erwin Kreyszig offers comprehensive coverage, careful and correct mathematics, outstanding exercises, and self-contained subject matter parts for maximum flexibility. The new edition continues with the tradition of providing instructors and students with a comprehensive and up-to-date resource for teaching and learning engineering mathematics, that is, applied mathematics for engineers and physicists, mathematicians and computer scientists, as well as members of other discipline.

This edition includes an extensive revision of the problem sets, making them even more effective, useful, and up-to-date. Chapter Introductions have also been rewritten to be more accessible and helpful to students. Some material has been rewritten specifically to better help students draw conclusions and tackle more advanced material.

Book Details
Hardcover: 1280 pages
Publisher: Wiley; 10 edition (August 16, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9780470458365
ISBN-13: 978-0470458365
ASIN: 0470458364

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Fluid Mechanics With Engineering Applications 10th Edition

Fluid Mechanics With Engineering Applications 10th Edition by E. Finnemore and Joseph Franzini is for civil engineers that teach fluid mechanics both within their discipline and as a service course to mechanical engineering students. As with all previous editions this 10th edition is extraordinarily accurate, and its coverage of open channel flow and transport is superior. There is a broader coverage of all topics in this edition of Fluid Mechanics with Engineering Applications. Furthermore, this edition has numerous computer-related problems that can be solved in Matlab and Mathcad.

Book Details
Series: McGraw-Hill Series in Industrial Engineering and Management
Hardcover: 816 pages
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education; 10 edition (October 25, 2001)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0072432020
ISBN-13: 978-0072432022

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