The CRC Handbook of Mechanical Engineering(FSN,Wu,Filepost,FSV)
СRС Prеss | 2005 | ISBN: 0849308666 9780849308666 | 2509 pages | PDF | 29 MB

This reference has been updated for the 21st century, providing complete coverage of classic engineering issues as well as groundbreaking new subject areas. The second edition covers every important aspect of the subject in a single volume. It continues the mission of the first edition in providing the practicing engineer in industry, government, and academia with relevant background and up-to-date information on the most important topics of modern mechanical engineering.

Coverage of traditional topics has been updated, including sections on thermodynamics, solid and fluid mechanics, heat and mass transfer, materials, controls, energy conversion, manufacturing and design, robotics, environmental engineering, economics and project management, patent law, and transportation.
Updates to these sections include new references and information on computer technology related to the topics.

This edition also includes coverage of new topics such as nanotechnology, MEMS, electronic packaging, global climate change, electric and hybrid vehicles, and bioengineering.

J. Paul Tullis - Hydraulics of Pipelines: Pumps, Valves, Cavitation, Transients
Wiley-Interscience | 1989 | ISBN: 0471832855 | Pages: 288 | PDF | 9.54 MB

This comprehensive text/reference addresses all hydraulic aspects of pipeline design. Incorporates many real-life examples from the author's experience in the design and operation of pipelines. Topics covered include basic equations necessary to pipeline design, how to conduct a feasibility study and perform economic analysis, design considerations for pumps and valves, how to suppress cavitation, hydraulic transients, trapped air, and methods of numerical solution of governing equations (including applications to complex piping systems). Includes twenty-five tables for easy reference. Extensively illustrated.

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Process Control System Control of temperature, flow and filling level

* Technische Universität Dresden Institut für Automatisierungstechnik D-01062 Dresden © 1997 by Festo Didactic GmbH & Co., Rechbergstraße 3, D-73770 Denkendorf

The element linking the measurement and the final control element is the controller. Before the advent of computers, the controllers are usually single-loop PID controllers. These are manufactured to execute PID control functions. These days, the controllers can do a lot more, however, easily 80 to 90% of the controllers are still PID controllers.

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Advanced Natural Gas Engineering
Gulf Publishing Company | 2009 | ISBN: 1933762381 | 400 pages | PDF | 6,9 MB 

Product Description
The role of natural gas in meeting the world energy demand has been increasing because of its abundance, versatility, and clean burning nature. As a result, new gas exploration, field development, and production activities are under way. This is especially true in places where natural gas was (until recently) labelled as 'stranded'. Because a significant portion of natural gas reserves world-wide are located across bodies of water, gas transportation becomes an issue.

We are dealing with many unique issues and facing many challenges in the entire 'food chain' (upstream to midstream and downstream) of natural gas engineering. This necessitates a bridge of the technology gaps in a number of important areas: the unique new technologies such as different interpretation of 3-D seismic in natural gas exploration; the specific requirements in gas well drilling; the need for the hydraulically fracturing of high permeability gas well to bypass the damage but most importantly to reduce turbulence due to high well deliverability; natural gas sea-going transportation such as liquefied natural gas (LNG) and compressed natural gas (CNG); gas conversion and storage; and, alternative and competing energy sources.

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Gas Turbine Handbook: Principles and Practices, 3rd edition
Fairmont Press | ISBN: 0849390567 | 2006 | PDF | 437 pages | 14 MB

This comprehensive, best-selling reference provides the fundamental information you'll need to understand both the operation and proper application of all types of gas turbines. The full spectrum of hardware, as well as typical application scenarios are fully explored, along with operating parameters, controls, inlet and exhaust treatments, inspection, troubleshooting, noise control, inlet cooling for power augmentation and NOx control. This latest edition includes a new chapter on microturbines and additional case studies. The author has provided many helpful tips that will enable diagnosis of problems in their early stages and analysis of failures to prevent their recurrence. Also treated are the effects of the external environment on gas turbines operation and life, as well as the impact of the gas turbine on its surrounding environment.

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