Thermal Engineering

Description

Pearson introduces the first edition of Thermal Engineering – a complete offering for the undergraduate engineering students. With lucid exposition of the fundamental concepts along with numerous worked-out examples and well-labeled detailed illustrations, this book provides a holistic understanding of the subject.

The content in the book encompasses applied thermodynamics, power plant engineering, energy conversion and management, internal combustion engines, turbo machinery, gas turbines and jet propulsion, and refrigeration and air-conditioning taught at different levels of the curriculum.

Key Features

• Each chapter is written in a simple, crisp and logical way, with gradual buildup of concepts.
• Over 700 self-explanatory illustrations that support the text and aid understanding.
• Excellent Pedagogy includes
• 400 Solved Examples
• 600 Multiple-choice Questions
• 350 Review Questions
• 300 Practice Problems
• Solved examples and multiple-choice questions are based on similar questions from GATE/IES and university question papers

Table of Contents

1. Chapter 1 Fuels and Combustion
2. Chapter 2 Properties of Steam
3. Chapter 3 Steam Generators
4. Chapter 4 Steam Power Cycles
5. Chapter 5 Steam Engines
6. Chapter 6 Flow Through Steam Nozzles
7. Chapter 7 Steam Turbines
8. Chapter 8 Steam Condensers
9. Chapter 9 Gas Power Cycles
10. Chapter 10 Internal Combustion Engine Systems Chapter 11 Performance of Internal Combustion Engines
11. Chapter 12 Reciprocating Air Compressors
12. Chapter 13 Rotary Air Compressors
13. Chapter 14 Centrifugal Air Compressions
14. Chapter 15 Axial Flow Air Compressors
15. Chapter 16 Gas Turbines
16. Chapter 17 Jet Propulsion
17. Chapter 18 Introduction to Refrigeration
18. Chapter 19 Vapour Compression and Vapour Absorption Systems
19. Chapter 20 Air-Conditioning and Psychrometrics