Handbook for Cogeneration and Combined Cycle Power Plants

This comprehensive Handbook has been fully updated and expanded for the second edition. It covers all major aspects of power plant design, operation, and maintenance. The second edition includes not only an updating of the technology, which has taken great leaps forward in the last decade, but also introduces new subjects. It assimilates subject matter of various papers, and sometimes diverse views, into a comprehensive, unified treatment of combined cycle power plants. Illustrations, with curves & tables are extensively employed to broaden the understanding of the descriptive text. The book has many special features which include comparison of various energy systems, latest cycles and power augmentation and improved efficiency techniques.