The Efficient Use of Energy

Content: 
Front Matter, Page iii
Copyright, Page iv
Foreword to the First Edition, Page v, Rt Hon Tony Benn
Preface, Page vii, Ian G.C. Dryden
Revisions made in Second Edition, Page viii, I.G.C. Dryden
Note, Page viii
Editorial Panel, 1971/72, Page ix
Editorial Advisory Committee, Page ix
Contributors, Pages xi-xii
Chapter 1 - Plan and perspective, Pages 2-17
Chapter 2 - Economic and cost factors in the choice of fuel and equipment, Pages 18-22
Chapter 3 - Gas firing, Pages 24-38
Chapter 4 - Oil firing, Pages 40-56
Chapter 5 - Fluidized–bed combustion, Pages 58-63
Chapter 6 - Solid–fuel firing, Pages 64-92
Chapter 7 - Electrical heating fundamentals, Pages 94-114
Chapter 8 - Furnaces: principles of design and use, Pages 116-165
Chapter 9 - Drying, conditioning and industrial space heating, Pages 166-198
Chapter 10 - Boiler plant and auxiliaries, Pages 200-248
Chapter 11 - Water treatment, Pages 250-270
Chapter 12 - Devices for direct production of mechanical energy, Pages 272-285
Chapter 13 - Production of electrical power, Pages 286-308
Chapter 14 - Nuclear power generation, Pages 310-340
Chapter 15 - Combined cycles and total energy, Pages 342-364
Chapter 16 - Heat salvage, Pages 366-391
Chapter 17 - Refractory and insulating materials, Pages 394-412
Chapter 18 - Instrumentation and control, Pages 414-481
Chapter 19 - Plant safety: pollution and its prevention, Pages 484-502
Chapter 20 - Corrosion, erosion and mineral deposits on heating and moving surfaces from fuel impurities, Pages 504-512
Appendix A - Natural fuels and their chief marketable products, Pages 514-526
Appendix B - Interconversion of fuels, Pages 528-537
Appendix C - Scientific and technological principles in the use of carbonaceous fuels, Pages 538-552
Appendix D - Sampling, analysis and testing of carbonaceous fuels, Pages 554-582
Appendix E - World energy resources and demand, Pages 584-590
Appendix F - Conspectus, Pages 591-592
Index, Pages 593-602
Units: Explanatory Notes, Page 603