When I began my power industry career years ago (initially in the chemistry lab of a coal-fired power plant), the criticality of proper chemistry control of steam boilers, cooling water systems, and ...
Economic and other factors have had a large influence on the movement away from coal to other energy sources. One of these influences was the rapid growth of hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) that ...
A VERY useful account is given in this book, from an engineering point of view, of the application of thermodynamics to the theory of the steam engine, mechanical refrigeration, steam nozzles, steam ...