Description

An excellent primer for power plant professionals who have to wear many hats and need a practical explanation of the design and basic operation of conventional steam generating boilers and HRSGs without having to wade through technical material. Buecker uses anecdotes and humor to liven up what would otherwise be considered a dry subject. No other book explains the fundamentals of boilers and HRSGs without going into technical depths.

Features and Benefits

• Fundamentals of steam generation and conventional boiler design
• Technologies, including fluidized-bed combustion and heat recovery steam generation(HRSG).
• Fuel and ash properties
• Fossil-fuel plant metallurgy
• Topics regarding air pollution control

Audience

• Operators
• Plant managers
• Engineers

About the Author

Brad Buecker is Senior Technical Publicist with ChemTreat. He has over 38 years of experience in or affiliated with the power industry, much of it in steam generation chemistry, water treatment, air quality control, and results engineering positions with City Water, Light & Power (Springfield, Illinois) and Kansas City Power & Light Company's La Cygne, Kansas station. Most recently he was a technical specialist with Kiewit Engineering Group Inc. Buecker has a B.S. in chemistry from Iowa State University with additional course work in fluid mechanics, energy and materials balances, and advanced inorganic chemistry. He is a member of the ACS, AIChE, ASME, and NACE, the Electric Utility Workshop planning committee, and the Power-Gen planning committee. Buecker is a contributing editor for Power Engineering magazine, and has authored three books on power plant topics.

Details
Type: Softcover
Size: 6x9
Pages: 184
Published: 2002
ISBN: 9781593701864