Heat Conversion Systems develops the underlying concepts of advanced Rankine-based absorption and compression cycles and introduces the Building Block Approach as a general concept. The Building Block Approach identifies all cycle configurations for a given application to ensure that system designers have available all important alternatives. The book features numerous examples of advanced cycles and includes single- and multi-stage absorption heat pumps and heat transformers and combined systems. The book also discusses single- and multi-stage vapor compression systems with multiple solution circuits, multiple compressors, and cascades. Aspects of working fluid selection and their influence on cycle options, performance evaluation, and estimating procedures for the Coefficient of Performance (COP) are addressed. Cycle analysis based on the Second Laws of Thermodynamics is examined.
Heat Conversion Systems will be an important source for engineers in air-conditioning, heat pumping, refrigeration, and waste heat utilization. It can be used as text in courses on thermodynamics, efficient use of energy, and environmental protection.
By:
Georg Alefeld,
Reinhard Radermacher (University of Maryland,
College Park,
USA)
Imprint: CRC Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 254mm,
Width: 178mm,
Spine: 22mm
Weight: 725g
ISBN: 9780849389283
ISBN 10: 0849389283
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 09 September 1993
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
1. The Theory of Heat Transformation 2. Working Fluids 3. Vapor-Compression Heat Pumps and Power Plants 4. Absorption Heat Pumps (Refrigerators) and Heat Transformers 5. Rules for the Design of Multistage, Absorption Heat Pumps, Heat Transformers, Vapor-Compression Heat Pumps, Heat Engines, and Cascades 6. Cascade Configurations 7. Two-Stage Absorption Heat Pumps and Heat Transformers 8. Three and Multistage Absorption Configurations 9. Two-Stage Configurations with Compression/Expansion Machines 10. Multistage Absorption/Compression/Expansion Machines 11. Solid-Vapor Heat Pumps, Refrigerators, Heat Transformers, and Heat Storage Devices 12. Open Heat Transformation and Storage Systems
Alefeld\, Georg; Radermacher\, Reinhard
Reviews for Heat Conversion Systems
Second in Card's science-fiction series (The Memory of Earth, p. 81) set on planet Harmony, whose ruling computer, the Oversoul, is breaking down after 40 million years' service. The Oversoul, therefore, is organizing the most sensitive and psychically capable humans to help it mount an expedition to seek help on long-lost Earth. The city of Basilica, ruled by women, is easily captured by the brilliant and ambitious General Moozh, thus apparently thwarting young Nafai's scheme to escape with his extended family into the desert and fulfill the initial part of the Oversoul's vast plan. Furthermore, to secure his political stranglehold on the city, Moozh proposes to appoint Nafai as Basilica's overseer. However, Nafai's faith in the Oversoul is absolute, and he refuses; he urges instead that the talented but misguided Moozh join the Oversoul's expedition to Earth. But the general continues to resist the Oversoul, or so he thinks, until the Oversoul reveals that two of Nafai's most gifted followers are actually Moozh's daughters - so Moozh can no longer deny that, willingly or not, he has always served the Oversoul. Finally, the Oversoul admits that some of the dream-visions experienced by Nafai's people were sent, somehow, from far-distant Earth. Slow, but reasonably involving and persuasive after a virtually unintelligible first 50 pages, where readers are expected to instantly recall details from volume one. (Kirkus Reviews)