Combustion engineering and gas utilization

Cover
 Half Title
 Title Page
 Copyright Page
 Foreword
 Table of Contents
 Preface
 Contributors
 Chapter One: Combustion
 Gaseous Fuels
 Combustion of natural gas
 Flame Properties and Structure
 Combustion Performance
 Furnace and Protective Atmospheres
 Oxygen in Combustion Processes
 Combustion of Fuel Oils
 References
 Chapter Two: Gas Burners and Burner Systems
 Interchangeability of Gases
 Diffusion Flame Burners
 Atmospheric Aerated Burners
 Air Blast Burners
 Nozzle Mix Burners
 Radiant Burners
 Recuperative Nozzle Mixing Burners
 Radiant Tube Burners. High Temperature Regenerative BurnersImmersion Tube Burners for Liquid Heating
 Specialised Types of Gas Burner
 Oxygen Enrichment Techniques for Gas Burners
 Pilot Burners
 Working Flame Burners
 References
 Chapter Three: Multifuel Burners
 Multifuel Systems
 Design Principles
 Burner Characteristics and Performance
 Triple-Fuel Firing
 References
 Chapter Four: Flow of Fluids
 Terms And Definitions
 The Effects of Temperature and Pressure on Fluid Volume
 Hydrostatics
 Mechanics of Fluid Flow
 Friction
 Calculations of Pressure Losses
 References
 Chapter Five: Heat Transfer
 Conduction. ConvectionRadiation
 Heat transfer in practice
 References
 Chapter Six: Gas Utilisation Equipment
 Space heating
 Hot water services
 Industrial liquid heating
 Hot water, steam and thermal fluid boilers
 Drying
 Glass
 Ceramics and clay
 Metal heating
 Metal re-heating
 Metal melting
 Incineration
 Atmosphere generation
 Catering
 Baking ovens
 Air conditioning
 References
 Chapter Seven: Waste Heat Recovery
 General design considerations
 Heat exchange
 Direct heat recovery
 Liquid to liquid heat exchange
 Gas to gas heat exchange
 Gas to liquid heat exchange. Methods which upgrade recovered heatSystems applications
 References
 Chapter Eight: Refractory and Insulating Materials in Furnace Construction
 Furnace refractories
 Furnace construction
 References
 Chapter Nine: Gas and Air Supply Controls
 Governors
 Manually operated valves
 Safety shut off valves
 Safety shut off valve systems
 Pressure and flow safeguards
 Air/gas ratio and throughput control
 Typical gas control systems
 References
 Chapter Ten: Ignition and Combustion Safeguards
 Start flames and pilot burners
 Basic ignition procedure for industrial gas equipment
 Shut down. Combustion safeguards --
generalManual, semi-automatic and fully automatic burner light up, monitoring and shut down
 References
 Chapter Eleven: Process Control
 Process control theory
 Automatic controllers
 Temperature Measurement
 Control valves and actuators
 Chapter Twelve: Site Supply and Internal Installation
 Site supply
 Internal installation
 Vents
 Installation requirements
 Installation practice
 References
 Chapter Thirteen: Power Production From Gas
 Total energy
 Prime movers
 Small scale combined heat and power (CHP) systems
 Large scale combined heat and power (CHP) systems.