Engineering Hermodynamics / / Charles Edward Lucke.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Archive 1898-1999
• VerfasserIn: Lucke, Charles Edward,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1912]; ©1912
• Year of Publication: 1912
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (1188 p.)

Discusses certain principles of thermodynamics and describes their usefulness to engineers. It begins with the general principles of work and power with a special focus on compressors and piston engines, then discusses the relation between heat and matter, especially in heating by combustion, and ends with the relation between heat and work for determining and improving efficiency.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Table of Symbols -- I. Work and Power. General Principles -- II. Work of Compressors. Horse-Power and Capacity of Air, Gas and Vapor Compressors, Blowing Engines and Dry Vacuum Pumps -- III. Work of Piston Engines. Horse-Power and Consumption of Piston Engines Using Steam, Compressed Air, or Any Other Gas or Vapor Under Pressure -- IV. Heat and Matter. Qualitative and Quantitative Relations Between Heat Content of Substances and Physical-Chemical State -- V. Heating by Combustion. Fuels, Furnaces, Gas Producers and Steam Boilers -- VI. Heat and Work. General Relations Between Heat and Work. Thermal Efficiency of Steam, Gas, and Compressed-Air Engines. Flow of Expansive Fluids. Performance of Mechanical Refrigerating Systems -- Index