Product Description

The benchmark guide for compressor technology pros. You don't have to scour piles of technical literature for compressor answers any longer. This book packs all the answers on design procedures, practical application, and maintenance of compressors—straight from top experts on these widely used machines.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1024936 in Books
• Published on: 2001-01-12
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: 2.10" h x 7.80" w x 9.40" l, 4.10 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 720 pages

Review
"This title has the making of a tremendous, exceptional, and highly impressive work. It should prove to be extremely useful, not only in American industry, but to foreign markets as well." - Tobi Goldoftas, Engineering Consultant, Cleveland, Ohio.

Book Info
Offers answers to a comprehensive collection of questions on the design procedures, practical application, and maintenance of all types of compressors. Shows how to design or select compressors for any use, with step-by-step procedures for fewer flaws or errors. Provides tabular data on miscellaneous related information. DLC: Compressors--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

From the Back Cover
"A highly impressive work ... extremely useful." --Tobi Goldoftas, Engineering Consultant, Cleveland, Ohio

The Benchmark Guide for Compressor Technology Pros

Compressor Handbook

You don't have to scour piles of technical literature for compressor answers any longer. The Compressor Handbook marks the spot where you’ll find all the answers on the design procedures, practical application, and maintenance of compressors—straight from the top experts on these widely used machines.

The first-ever comprehensive reference on compressors, the Handbook gives you coverage of everything from fundamentals and theory to advanced applications, techniques, and today's materials. Look inside for sought-after data on compressors that inflate tires, spray paint, increase the density of natural gas, or perform any of a myriad of other important industrial and day-to-day functions.

Edited by a leading mechanical engineer widely known for his contributions to seal design, this fully illustrated Compressor Handbook can help you:

Understand the structure and operation of compressors of all types.
Design or select compressors for any use, from power-cleaning to chemical processes.
Follow step-by-step design procedures for fewer errors and optimized results.
Specify leading-edge materials, components, and lubricants.
Operate and maintain all types of compressors at peak efficiency.
Answer questions on and provide designs for ancillary and auxiliary equipment.
Invent new applications for compressor technology.
Easily find tabular data on gas properties, efficiency curves, compression ratios, and horsepower, plus definitions of nomenclature.

Altitude Effect Analysis Applications Axial Flow Balancing Bearings Boosters Bypass Capacity Control Centrifugal Type CNG Compressibility Compression Cycles Compression Ratio Computer Modeling Construction Control Systems Cooling Critical Speed Cylinders Diaphragm Dynamic Ejector Electrical Expander Finite Element Analysis Filtration Fluid Flow Analysis Foundations Frame Friction Fuel Gas Laws Gas Stream Gas Velocity Hardware High Pressure Impeller Inertia Injection Leakage Liquid Piston Limitations Loading Lubricators Magnetic Type Manufacture Methods Mixed Flow Monitoring Mounting Nomenclature Oil Properties Oil Wipers Operating Limitations Operating Principles Packaging Packing Performance Control Performance Measurement Piston Rings Piston Rod Piping Pneumatic Positive Displacement Power Prelube Pressure Range Pulsations Purging Reciprocating Refrigerants Refrigeration Systems Reinforcing Rod Loading Rolling Element Rotor Phasing Rotary Safety Screw Scroll Seals Sensing Scrubbers Simulation Size and Mass Analysis Skid Mounts Speed Staging Standards Storage Straight Lobe Stress Considerations Surging Testing Temperature Thermal Effects Thrust Tilting Pad Toxic or Corrosive Gases Transmission Turbine Vacuum Valves Vane Vehicle Refueling Vibrations Volumetric Efficiency Wear More