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Air Compression
Compressed Air System Design
This document covers the basic components of a compressed
air system and provides guidance on achieving an economical,
durable, efficient, and dependable system design.
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Improving Compressed Air System Performance
The publication provides an overview of compressed air
system basics as well as discusses a system approach to
improving and maintaining peak compressed air system
performance.
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Heat Transfer
Heat Exchanger Fundamentals
This document covers the fundamentals of heat exchangers, including the different
types and how they operate.
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Heat Transfer Fundamentals
This document covers the fundamentals of heat transfer, including conduction,
convection and radiation.
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HVAC
Industrial Fan Fundamentals
With this document, you will learn the fundamentals of
axial and centrifugal fans used in industrial applications and
the factors that influence the selection of fans, drivers, flow
control devices and other components of a fan system.
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Psychrometrics and Its Use in HVAC
This document covers the basic concepts that are essential to understand
the properties and conditions of the air as well as the mass and energy
conservation equations of the first law of thermodynamics that are
essential in the understanding of HVAC applications. A section is
devoted to the benefits and use of a typical psychrometric chart in
HVAC applications.
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Piping
Pressure Vessel Chemical Cracking
This document discusses the consequences due to pressure
vessel leakage or rupture, cracking causes and mitigations for
pressure vessels operating in the various services, and provides
the description, relative merits, and method of improved
reliability of nondestructive examination methods used to detect
vessel cracks.
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Valves - Fundamentals
This document covers the fundamentals of valves, including the different
types of valves commercially available and how they operate.
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Pumps
Centrifugal Pump Fundamentals
This document covers the fundamentals of centrifugal pumps.
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Centrifugal and Positive Displacement Pump Fundamentals
This document covers the fundamentals of centrifugal and positive
displacement pumps, including the major components of a pump, the operating
principle and the different types of pumps available within each category.
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Mechanical Design of Pumping Stations
This design manual is relevant to engineers responsible
for designing flood control pumping stations. [2.40 Mb]
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Pump Types and Selections
There are many types of pumps commercially available to choose from. How
do you determine which type of pump is best for a particular application? This
paper provides a comparison between centrifugal and positive displacement
pumps (including both reciprocating and rotary pumps).
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Steam Systems
Calculating the True Cost of
Steam
In order to properly evaluate the economics of proposed process efficiency
or capacity-improvement projects, it is important for the engineer to know
the true cost of steam that is generated and consumed in a process for
optimizing the steam generation system, ensuring more effective
negotiations with utility companies and properly evaluating proposed
cogeneration projects.
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Guide to Low-Emission Boiler and
Combustion Equipment Selection
The guide provides information about various types of boilers including the fuels that
they burn and the emissions that they produce. Discussions are also included concerning
emissions standards and compliance issues, technical details related to emissions control
techniques, and other important selection considerations. The guide can be applied to new
boilers as well as to existing boiler installations.
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Improving Steam System Performance
There are many types of pumps commercially available to choose from. How
do you determine which type of pump is best for a particular application? This
document will provide a comparison between centrifugal and positive displacement
pumps (including both reciprocating and rotary pumps).
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Other Mechanical Topics
International Plumbing Code: A Guide for Use and Adoption
The Guide document developed by the ICC covers the major technical provisions of the
International Plumbing Code (IPC) and provides the rationale and justification behind much
of the technical content contained within the IPC.
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