The efficient use of fuel : a text book on fuels and their efficient utilization for the use of students and technical men in industry.

  • Great Britain. Ministry of Power.
Date:
1958
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    The Education Sub-Committee cannot refer too highly to the skill and enthusiasm shown by Dr. Foxwell in the editing of this work. Their cordial thanks are offered to Mrs. Fuller for her share in piloting the work through its preliminary drafts, revision and proof reading. Grateful acknowledgement i is accorded to those mentioned below, for having taken part in the production of this work, and for their generous and able assistance, always given so freely and promptly. Thanks are extended, in no less a degree, to all those who have assisted but remain anonymous. Fe decng on A nmell PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION THE First Edition of this book, issued in 1944, was prepared in an atmosphere of urgency, under war conditions. It was designed by the Education Sub- Committee of the Fuel Efficiency Committee of the Ministry of Fuel and Power to give the essential facts that should be known to engineers and chemists who, not being professional fuel technologists, had control of boilers, furnaces and other plant using fuel or applying heat as part of wider duties, adminis- trative or technical. During the fifteen years that have passed since the preparation of the previous volume was undertaken, the practice and science of fuel technology have advanced substantially. New ideas and processes, improved designs of fuel plant, better methods in utilization have been introduced. During this period the knowledge and practice of fuel technology have become more widespread. As a result some of the more elementary treatment adopted in parts of the First Edition has been modified appropriately. The demand for fuel has outstripped home-produced supplies and, from being an exporter of fuel, this country has become, and for the foreseeable future will remain, a net importer. Every effort should, therefore, be made to use fuel as efficiently as possible in order to restrict to the bare minimum what the country imports. The answer lies in education, to which it is hoped this new edition will contribute. The Education Committee of the then Ministry of Fuel and Power, believing that the time had come to review the original work, decided to seek the assistance of a large number of specialist authors to revise the work in order to bring the treatment into line with modern ideas, and to add new material. As a result of this review, although a few chapters have not been greatly changed, much had to be re-written. New material has been provided on water-tube boiler design, boiler auxiliary plant, furnaces, instrumentation and many other subjects and the chapters on Heat Transmission and The Flow