Elements of Engineering Thermodynamics

Abstract

IN their preface to the new edition of this book, the authors indicate that it is intended for use in those technical colleges where special courses are held in the subjects of advanced thermodynamics as well as in steam turbines, internal combustion engines, refrigeration, and other applications of thermodynamics. To this end they claim to have stressed the fundamental principles of engineering thermodynamics as a foundation for the more advanced and practical applications of the theory. While there can be little complaint over the general arrangement of the subject-matter, it is felt that the amount of information offered in some of the branches is scarcely adequate to enable the student to proceed directly to the more advanced applications. In the chapter dealing with internal combustion engines, no mention is made of the Atkinson cycle, or of the dual combustion or mixed pressure cycle. Comparatively simple accounts of vapour reheating and regenerative cycles take about six pages, but the more difficult case of the combined reheating and regenerative cycle is dismissed in six lines, and the description of the binary vapour engine occupies only one page. In view of the excellent textbooks on engineering thermodynamics that are already available in Great Britain, it is doubtful whether this American work will find a place in the list of books recommended for students in engineering.

Elements of Engineering Thermodynamics.

James A.

Moyer

Prof.

James P.

Calderwood

Andrey A.

Potter

By. Fifth edition, rewritten and reset. Pp. xiv + 192. (New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc.; London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1933.) 15s. 6d. net.