Newly revised, this new fifth edition includes a chapter on waste heat recovery and discusses this technology in detail including a the advantages and barriers to waste heat recovery, environmental restraints, thermodynamics of heat recovery, fluid properties, boiler, condensers, steam turbines, off design behavior and exhaust catalyst. This book shows how microturbine designs rely heavily on the centrifugal compressor and are, in many aspects, similar to the early flight engines and will illustrate how the approach of the microturbine designer is to minimize cost.
- ISBN10 1482228882
- ISBN13 9781482228885
- Publish Date 15 November 2013 (first published 12 December 2002)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country CA
- Imprint Apple Academic Press Inc.
- Edition 5th edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 524
- Language English