ANALYSIS OF ENGINEERING CYCLES

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Preface :

This book deals principally with an analysis of the overall performance,under design conditions, of work-producing power plants and work-absorbing refrigerating and gas-liquefaction plants, most of which are either  cyclic or closely related thereto. The consideration of off-design performance is beyond the scope of the series in which this volume appears.Likewise, no attempt is made to describe the mechanical construction of the different kinds of plant considered, for it is assumed that the reader  already has a knowledge of the associated "hardware". 

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In a work which claims to deal with the analysis of engineering cycles,some justification is required for the inclusion of a chapter on non-cyclic internal-combustion plant, namely open-circuit gas-turbines and reciprocating internal-combustion engines. The inclusion of this chapter arises directly from the long-established practice of linking the performance of this type of non-cyclic plant with that of ideal cyclic plant operating on hypothetical cycles such as those of Joule, Otto and Diesel. The reader is not allowed, as in so many books, to skate over the highly arbitrary nature of this kind of exercise. 

Table of contents :

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1. Power plant performance measures and criteria 

2. Simple steam plant 

3. Simple closed-circuit gas-turbine plant

4. Internal-combustion power plant 

5. Simple refrigerating plant 

6. Advanced gas-turbine plant 

7. Advanced steam-turbine plant 

8. Nuclear power plant 

9. Combined and binary power plant 

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