This book is concerned with the steady state hydraulics of natural gas and other compressible fluids being transported through pipelines. Our main approach is to determine the flow rate possible and compressor station horsepower required within the limitations of pipe strength, based on the pipe materials and grade. It addresses the scenarios where one or more compressors may be required depending on the gas flow rate and if discharge cooling is needed to limit the gas temperatures. The book is the result of over 38 years of the authors' experience on pipelines in North and South America while working for major energy companies such as ARCO, El Paso Energy, etc.

Silver Bullets isn't about understanding the technology of standard, interoperable data; it's about why the technology is important and how you can use it. If you care about effective operations, no matter your job title, this book is for you. Interoperable data is a major game changer for business and information technology, government and commercial, national and international organizations. This book will let you make it happen, versus wondering what happened and how you were left behind. As Frederick Brooks famously noted in The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, there is no single-approach solution - no Silver Bullet - that delivers significant improvements in productivity, reliability, or simplicity. But in Silver Bullets, Pete O'Dell shows how a single concept - standardized data interoperability - yields improvements in any industry to which it is applied. O'Dell builds his case by reviewing the past. From the Great Wall of China to shipping containers, from punched cards to the VISA network, standardization has fueled enormous breakthroughs. O'Dell investigates current data standardization including XML and the Common Alerting Protocol, using case studies to illustrate success stories ranging from homeland defense to diabetes management. Finally, O'Dell offers practical suggestions on how to get started with interoperable data and points to emerging leaders in commercial, governmental and not-for-profit fields. This accessible, plain-spoken book is full of parables, anecdotes and stories, delivering humor as well as insight. Reading it enables you to make practical decisions about your organization's future and growth. Silver Bullets shines a clear light into your inoperable future.

The book is about a dream of mankind- the dream to live in "peacetime." After many conflicts and wars, in 1901 the humans initiated actions to materialize the dream. But unfortunately, the dream is still a dream after more than one hundred years. Time is nothing but realizing things in succession and is a condition and cause of conditions. Peace time is a mental phenomena and its measuring system is derived from functioning of solar system and cosmological units. The dream is to promulgate 28 days 13 months moon civil calendar which is a perfect, rational, uniform, regular and harmonious time calendar. This provides appropriate impulses to human minds for peaceful responses and to create a peace time culture. The book designs the Peace Calendar with names of 13 months of the year; each month promoting different moral values (as components of Peace) to mould the human minds towards "peacetime." The book also highlights the present problem of violence, terror and meltdowns in economic, social and environmental sectors in each of the 13 months. The UN is urged upon to take quick decision for fulfillment of the dream to save the humanity from large scale destruction and to switch over from the present "miserable time" to "peace time" by 2012-13, the cut off year for the beginning of holocaust in human civilization.

A collection of short stories, based on factual experiences and knowledge of an aviation professional. The subject matter having a wide spectrum of operational diversification.
Military and civil aviation share a common bond which equates to the preservation of those who put their trust in the designers, manufacturers and operators of all flying machines, a trust each must of necessity have a very real foundation of faith.

This book is composed to assist new and upcoming multi- discipline Project Engineers and Managers in obtaining the basic and necessary knowledge which is required in order to become successful and valuable members of a project team. This book will give an insight to engineering students and professionals on how different engineering disciplines are interrelated in a multi-discipline environment. Together we shall look at Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPe projects. EPC projects are very much the norm in the present day engineering contracting industry for capital projects of all types and sizes. Normally, engineers graduate from engineering schools and universities as single discipline engineers. After graduation, they will take up a job based on their particular engineering discipline and then progress in their career. Project Engineers / Engineering Managers combine the different disciplines into a frame work which is often referred to as multi-discipline Project Engineering. Multi-discipline project engineering is a special skill where the engineer has to have basic knowledge of all discipline deliverables. One must know the criticality of the document and how long it should take to get reviewed / commented by other discipline. Multi-discipline project engineers should have understanding of Quality, be cost consciousness and have an understanding of how deliverables effects scheduling. It is an added bonus if one has knowledge of risk management In this book, we are not going to discuss any engineering calculation details. Main focus of this book is to highlight requirements of multi-discipline co-ordination and to show some examples. Major deliverables of different disciplines are mentioned in respective chapters to give project engineers an idea of what these deliverables look like and how are they inter-related.

When World War II started, there was a crisis in naval radar: few U.S. Navy ships had this vital weapon and almost no personnel were trained in the secret technology. For the first time, this crisis and its solution are fully covered in book form.