The definitive guide for steam power plant systems and operation―fully updated 
For more than 75 years, this book has been a trusted source of information on steam power plants, including the design, operation, and maintenance of major systems. Steam Plant Operation, Ninth Edition, emphasizes the importance of a comprehensive energy plan utilizing all economical sources of energy, including fossil fuels, nuclear power, and renewable energy sources. 
Wind, solar, and biomass power are introduced in the book, and the benefits and challenges of these renewable resources for the production of reliable, cost-effective electric power are identified. Even with these new technologies, approximately 90% of electricity is generated using steam as the power source, emphasizing its importance now and in the future. In-depth details on coal-fired plants, gas turbine cogeneration, nuclear power, and renewable energy sources are included, as are the environmental control systems that they require. Potential techniques for the reduction of carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel–fired power plants also are presented. 
This practical guide provides common power plant calculations such as plant heat rate, boiler efficiency, pump performance, combustion processes, and collection efficiency for plant emissions. Numerous illustrations and clear presentation of the material will assist those preparing for an operator’s license exam. In addition, engineering students will find a detailed introduction to steam power plant technology. 
Steam Plant Operation, Ninth Edition, covers: 
<ul>
<li>Steam and its importance </li>
<li>Boilers </li>
<li>Design and construction of boilers </li>
<li>Combustion of fuels </li>
<li>Boiler settings, combustion systems, and auxiliary equipment </li>
<li>Boiler accessories </li>
<li>Operation and maintenance of boilers </li>
<li>Pumps </li>
<li>Steam turbines, condensers, and cooling towers </li>
<li>Operating and maintaining steam turbines, condensers, cooling towers, and auxiliaries </li>
<li>Auxiliary steam plant equipment </li>
<li>Environmental control systems </li>
<li>Waste-to-energy plants</li>
</ul>

Invisible Enlighteners: The Jewish Merchants of Modena, from the Renaissance to the Emancipation (Jewish Culture and Contexts)

Business & Money

Francesconi, Federica

Economics

University of Pennsylvania Press

This volume discusses the early Dravidian architecture of Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh (Upper Dravidadesh) as developed under the aegis of the early Chalukyas, the Rashtrakutas and their dependent dynasties. It contains a text by noted authorities of Indian architecture.

Encyclopaedia of Indian temple architecture

Russian Minstrels : A History of the Skomorokhi

Zguta, Russell

Literature & Fiction

Social Security and Private Pension Plans: Competitive or Complementary (Pension Research Council Publications)

Pension Reseach Council

Examines current retirement policies in Japan and contrasts them to similar policies in the US, to the end of being better able to respond to problems arising in US retirement policies. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Retirement Systems in Japan (Pension Research Council Publications)

Personal Finance

DREISER MENCKEN LETTERS: THE CORRESPONDENCE OF THEODORE DREISER AND H. L. MENCKEN 1907-1945 [TWO VOLS.]

Riggio, Thomas P. [Editor]

Out of Sight: An Art Collector, a Discovery, and Andy Warhol

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

In 2009, Gregory McCoy, a noted New Jersey Andy Warhol Collector discovered while searching online, four remarkable and unknown silk screen prints of Marilyn Monroe, what struck McCoy immediately was the remarkable resemblance to Andy Warhol’s iconic 1962 silkscreen portrait of the actor. After investigating the origins of the Marilyns, he purchased four proof copies from a Swedish art dealer. Through his painstaking research, McCoy has discovered that the screen prints were, most likely, made in Sweden in 1968 at the time of Warhol’s first international exhibition at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm. Excited by his discovery, McCoy has spent the past twelve years acquiring over three hundred multicolored Marilyns. Not used in the Stockholm exhibition, it appears that the screen prints went underground and were gifted to a circle of Swedes who were associated with Pontus Hultén, the controversial Director of the Moderna Museet.\nIn 2016, McCoy was introduced to Penn Libraries Director of the Rare Book and Manuscript Library; after examining a sample of the Marilyn silkscreens, McCoy and Penn Libraries formed a partnership to exhibit a selection of the Marilyns. Why Penn? It seemed obvious. Penn had played a significant role in launching Warhol’s career when the recently founded Institute for Contemporary Art (ICA) mounted Warhol’s first institutional retrospective of his work in 1965. The ICA exhibit is legendary. Given Penn’s role in Warhol’s Pop Art career, Penn seemed to McCoy to be the obvious venue to unveil his important discovery to the art world.\nTo date the question of Andy Warhol’s role in the production of this collection of Marilyn’s remains unanswered, which is part of the intellectual challenge of defining these art objects within the context of Pontus Hultén curatorial vision and Andy Warhol’s ethos and aesthetic. The catalogue includes an interview with the collector, essays by noted Warhol scholars: Reva Wolf and Kenneth Goldsmith; an essay on the 1965 ICA exhibition by Art Librarian Hannah Bennett; and an essay on the iconography of Marilyn Monroe by David McKnight, editor and curator of the show. The volume concludes with a Catalogue Raisonné of the McCoy Marilyns collection, prepared by Maureen McCormick, former Chief Registrar at the Princeton University Art Gallery. There will be 1,968 catalogues printed, commemorating the year in which the prints were made.

The Lombard Laws

Drew, Katherine Fischer, tr.

History

Irish Folk History: Tales from the North

Henry H.Glassie

Europe

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