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Foreword to Second Edition
Foreword to Second Edition
Additional chapters in this second edition focus attention on a range of actual combustion related projects and the economic issues related to furnaces. In doing so, it also highlights that industrial problems can be quite complex and multi-faceted. In the past, and even today, many of these issues would almost certainly be addressed by trial and error, simply due to the lack of adequate technical knowledge, which can now be found in this book. Combustion related projects generally require a wide range of ancillary equipment ranging from valve trains and pumping systems, blowers/fans and ducting, refractory lining, electric motors, boilers and heat exchangers, exhaust gas cleaning etc. As this book addresses all of these aspects it also provides useful information, which can be applied outside the field of combustion. I have successfully used a section in chapter 5 to assess the design of a twin fluid atomiser installed in a water spray system used for gas cooling. To me the most important thing highlighted in the second edition through the practical examples, is that the solutions to complex combustion and heat transfer problems do exist and all we have to do is correctly apply the science but better still, use this science to get the design right in the first place! Greg Mills Engineering Consultant Perth, Western Australia
Additional chapters in this second edition focus attention on a range of actual combustion related projects and the economic issues related to furnaces. In doing so, it also highlights that industrial problems can be quite complex and multi-faceted. In the past, and even today, many of these issues would almost certainly be addressed by trial and error, simply due to the lack of adequate technical knowledge, which can now be found in this book. Combustion related projects generally require a wide range of ancillary equipment ranging from valve trains and pumping systems, blowers/fans and ducting, refractory lining, electric motors, boilers and heat exchangers, exhaust gas cleaning etc. As this book addresses all of these aspects it also provides useful information, which can be applied outside the field of combustion. I have successfully used a section in chapter 5 to assess the design of a twin fluid atomiser installed in a water spray system used for gas cooling. To me the most important thing highlighted in the second edition through the practical examples, is that the solutions to complex combustion and heat transfer problems do exist and all we have to do is correctly apply the science but better still, use this science to get the design right in the first place! Greg Mills Engineering Consultant Perth, Western Australia