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BOOK REVIEWS
Combustion Calculations, by E. M. Goodger. Macmillan Press Ltd, London, 106pp., 1977. Price: £2.95 (paperback). This excellent book collates into 106 pages the basic thermodynamic principles of combustion. Essential theory is followed by fully worked examples (twenty-four in all) together with ten further problems for the reader to tackle himself. This succinctly worded test is well suited to undergraduate courses in chemical and mechanical engineering, especially as complementary reading to pertinent lecture courses, and could prove valuable as a revision tool.
Sun Power, by J. C. McVeigh. Pergamon Press, Oxford, 1977. Price: £2.75 (paperback), £6 (hardback). This is an excellent text for the practical engineer and architect rather than the theoretical scientist. It is highly suitable for first year university undergraduate courses. Constructional details of several modern solar heaters are given, as well as methods for predicting the economics of such systems. A comprehensive, up-to-date bibliography is provided to enable students to at least reach some of the frontiers of knowledge. In many countries, high winds occur most frequently during winter when both energy demand is at its peak and the availability of solar radiation is least. Thus the interesting concept of a combined solar collector and windmill is discussed.
Sharing the Sun--Volume 10. Edited by Karl W. B6er, The American Section of the International Solar Energy Society, 300 State Road 401, Cape Canaveral, Florida 32920, USA. (Available in the U K through Pergamon Press Ltd, Oxford), 1977. Price: £20 (paperback). This volume is the last of ten, each covering a particular aspect of the rapidly developing field of solar energy conversion. The volumes represent the proceedings of the joint conference between the American Section of the International Solar Energy Society and the Solar Energy Society of Canada held in Winnipeg on the 15th and 16th August, 1976. The first section of volume 10 covers seven papers presented on topics related to the business and commercial implications of applied solar energy. The second section consists of an extensive poster session with twenty-five papers or abstracts covering, mostly in very broad terms, such items as: Thermal energy storage and transportation (of the vehicular type); the general operating experiences of some novel passive and active solar energy systems; do-it-yourself, retrofit, solar energy systems and preliminary reports about fluidised bed heat exchangers using phasechange materials and the analysis of buried thermal energy storage tank losses.
BOOK REVIEWS
Combustion Calculations, by E. M. Goodger. Macmillan Press Ltd, London, 106pp., 1977. Price: £2.95 (paperback). This excellent book collates into 106 pages the basic thermodynamic principles of combustion. Essential theory is followed by fully worked examples (twenty-four in all) together with ten further problems for the reader to tackle himself. This succinctly worded test is well suited to undergraduate courses in chemical and mechanical engineering, especially as complementary reading to pertinent lecture courses, and could prove valuable as a revision tool.
Sun Power, by J. C. McVeigh. Pergamon Press, Oxford, 1977. Price: £2.75 (paperback), £6 (hardback). This is an excellent text for the practical engineer and architect rather than the theoretical scientist. It is highly suitable for first year university undergraduate courses. Constructional details of several modern solar heaters are given, as well as methods for predicting the economics of such systems. A comprehensive, up-to-date bibliography is provided to enable students to at least reach some of the frontiers of knowledge. In many countries, high winds occur most frequently during winter when both energy demand is at its peak and the availability of solar radiation is least. Thus the interesting concept of a combined solar collector and windmill is discussed.
Sharing the Sun--Volume 10. Edited by Karl W. B6er, The American Section of the International Solar Energy Society, 300 State Road 401, Cape Canaveral, Florida 32920, USA. (Available in the U K through Pergamon Press Ltd, Oxford), 1977. Price: £20 (paperback). This volume is the last of ten, each covering a particular aspect of the rapidly developing field of solar energy conversion. The volumes represent the proceedings of the joint conference between the American Section of the International Solar Energy Society and the Solar Energy Society of Canada held in Winnipeg on the 15th and 16th August, 1976. The first section of volume 10 covers seven papers presented on topics related to the business and commercial implications of applied solar energy. The second section consists of an extensive poster session with twenty-five papers or abstracts covering, mostly in very broad terms, such items as: Thermal energy storage and transportation (of the vehicular type); the general operating experiences of some novel passive and active solar energy systems; do-it-yourself, retrofit, solar energy systems and preliminary reports about fluidised bed heat exchangers using phasechange materials and the analysis of buried thermal energy storage tank losses.