The Definitive Steam Guide

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The Definitive Guide

This practical guide to steam engineering was originally published in April 2004 and rapidly became the definitive, invaluable handbook for steam engineers throughout the world. It has now been updated and reprinted in a smaller, compact, bound book.

A Practical Book

Written as a practical book, this guide to process steam engineering contains a mimimum of theory and is ideal for process and engineering personnel who are responsible for the design, maintenance and effective operation of important steam sites and associated control equipment.

The guide's topics range from the fundamentals of distribution and condensate return to steam traps and temperature controllers. This essential guide to steam engineering is filled with technical data to back up the descriptive sections. Major sections of the book cover...

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The Author

Gary Sowerby has brought together a lifetime's experience of process steam plant. He conceived this guide as part of his on-site steam training which is still much sought after

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Buying the Book

The guide comprising some 100 pages of process steam information in words and tables is available in both hardback and paperback editions.

This publication is dedicated to the memory of Gary's father who first encouraged him to take up an Engineering Apprenticeship, and to all those past Steam Engineers he was fortunate enough to have personally known, respected and walked alongside, surveying the numerous Steam and Condensate Distribution Lines.

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