Handbook of energy systems engineering : production, and utilization / edited by Leslie C. Wilber.

Contributor(s): Wilbur, Leslie C. (Leslie Clifford).

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BookSeries: Wiley series in mechanical engineering practice.Publisher: New York : Wiley, c1985Description: xiii, 1775 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. + hbk.ISBN: 0471866334.Subject(s): Power (Mechanics) -- Handbooks, manuals, etcDDC classification: 621.042

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Provides professionals with a concentrated store of user-oriented information on a broad spectrum of energy applications. Each section is written as a miniprimer adequate to enable the reader to grasp vital concepts at a decision-making level and to give non-experts an elementary grasp of the subject. Includes chapters on mathematical relationships and fundamental data and carefully selected bibliographies to allow follow-up research.

"A Wiley-Interscience publication."

Includes bibliographiecal references and index.

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CHOICE Review

At 1,728 pages, and nearly six pounds, this handbook is no pocket edition. The 90 contributors made editing a monumental task by any standard. Almost every aspect of energy conversion and utilization is examined, including the energy sources-coal, nuclear, petroleum, gas, and hydroelectric-and the technology of distribution, environmental effects, and prime movers. As a handbook the volume falls short in a number of areas. For example, a section on financial evaluation gives no examples; in the section on electric motors, we are advised to ``use the most efficient available. ..,'' and the section on solar energy gives no usable equations to estimate solar flux on the earth's surface or to estimate the amount of energy that is normally useable in solar conversion schemes. It is a great credit to the editor that the sections are as compatible and readable as they are. One hopes that future editions of the handbook will be more complete. College and public libraries.-R.B. McKee Jr., University of Nevada, Reno