(Editor’s Note: This story originally ran in November 2008 and has proved a perennial favorite of Power Engineering readers. With the New Year we thought we’d share it again. Click here to see the ...
When I began my power industry career years ago (initially in the chemistry lab of a coal-fired power plant), the criticality of proper chemistry control of steam boilers, cooling water systems, and ...
IN a recent communication Berry, Black and Enderby 1 describe an interesting use of the Tchebichef polynomials to represent the thermodynamic steam tables of Keenan and Keyes. This was a preliminary ...
THE mechanization of computation concerning steam plant design has been greatly frustrated by the difficulty of having to use steam tables. An experiment carried out using the University of Manchester ...