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This work covers a number of diverse topics and has underlying
chemistry, especially combustion chemistry, as a unifying theme
across the chapters. There is frequent reference to the research
literature, and accounts of many case studies. There are over 40
numerical examples in an appendix, suitable for tutorial use, with
fully worked solutions in a second appendix.
This work presents an intergrated approach to thermodynamics and
heat transfer suitable for undergraduates on a mumber of courses.
Topics covered include: the First Law of Thermodynamics,
fundamentals and applications; the Second and Third Laws;
thermodynamic cycles including the Carnot, Rankine and Otto Cycles;
conduction of heat, under both steady and non-steady conditions;
forced and natural convection of heat; radiation heat transfer; and
introductory statistical thermodynamics. In addition there are many
numerical examples throughout the text and at the end of each
chapter.
This valuable book draws on the author's long and varied experience
in combustion technology and contains soundly-based engineering
calculations in fire protection engineering based on
start-of-the-art methods. This branch of engineering has evolved in
order that knowledge in areas including chemistry, physics,
structural engineering, mechanical engineering and statistics can
be focused on fire safety. This is of especial importance in the
operation of facilities such as airports, campuses and shopping
malls and also in industrial settings where fire safety is vital
due to the major benefits in terms of preservation of life and
assets. The topics covered in the book have their basis in
thermochemistry and heat transfer and examples covered are wide and
include household fires, vehicular fires, extinguishments,
calorimetry, and evacuation of persons in a fire and detector
systems. The contents of the book have an original slant with many
new ideas. However, these have been adapted into calculations,
which are ideal for student use, requiring no additional
mathematical skills beyond those expected of an engineering or
physics student. Each chapter has a short introduction followed by
worked examples with information for the calculations being derived
from international authoritative publications on fire protection
engineering, resulting in a valuable teaching/learning tool.
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