Overview
This giant reference, sponsored by the American Gas Association and written by a staff of 150 specialists, answers any general or specific engineering information requirement in regard to natural, liquefied petroleum, and manufactured gases.
Features
- Presents in concise, orderly fashion all "working" facts and data on fuel gases needed by engineers, industry and government personnel.
- Brings together in one volume and 125 chapters all conceivable engineering methods and operating data of the entire gas industry, from source to burner.
- Tables, graphs, charts, equations, and illustrations clarify and illuminate a text that is crammed with the kind of information that is virtually unobtainable elsewhere.
- Fuels, Combustion and Heat Transfer
- Production and Conditioning of Manufactured Gas
- Production, Gathering, and Handling of Liquefied Petroleum Gases
- Gas Testing
- Gas Measurement
- Transmission of Gas
- Distribution of Gas
- Storage of Gas
- Corrosion
- Utilization of Gas
- Chemicals from Natural Gas
- Purging
- Electrical Applications in the Gas Industry