ERRATA and text changes to be considered for a future printing: Decher, EC, 1994

Reiner Decher
Professor (Adjunct in Civil Engineering)

ENERGY CONVERSION:

SYSTEMS, FLOW PHYSICS AND ENGINEERING: Errata

"sr" below means "should read"

preface - first page 4 lines up from bottom Period (.) sr Comma (,)

p. 29 in section 1.10.2 :

Delete "Spontaneous" in third line from bottom of paragraph

p. 30 lines first "and" sr "are"

p.54. 9th line of text should read 18,600 BTU/lb rather than 8600

p. 58 Fig. 2-10. Caption Add: In 1994 the fraction of electric power from nuclear generation was xx%.

p. 63, fig. 3-4: ordinate is "$/kW" not "$/kW-hr"

p. 65 line 2 economic --> economical

2nd lind up from bottom: ...the delivery system and the insurance provided by the utility that power will be available at all times. The local....

p. 68 section 3.3.4 second paragraph "operation" sr "operate"
p. 70, eq. 3-22:

Add a sentence after eq. 3-22

... where n = 0.5 is plotted in Fig. 3-9. The maximum specific work case may be viewed as a design case, for which the subscript D used in Fig. 3-8.

Change: .... In these two examples, the fuel consumption rate is high for small fractional times (see Fig. 3-10 because of the high power required, Fig. 3-9) and then ..

p. 71. caption of Fig. 3-10 sr to mention Figs. 3-8 and 3-9

p. 76 Fig 3-13 "Fransport" sr "Transport"

p. 77. just above eq. 3-39: accelerate sr propel

p. 81. eq. 3-54 and 3-56, the overbar should be limited to just the left hand sides of the equations, not extending to the left margin.

p. 82, eq. 3-59:

p. 91, eq. 4-22: print has an "x" in lieu of a "v" in denominator on right

p.95, eq. 4-39b should be

p. 104, eq. 4-70:

p. 113. header in T 5-1 should not be bold

p. 122 5 lines up from bottom 5-32 sr 5-31

p. 126, example 2: written as

N2 ® aN2 + bN2 + (nothing else, an assumption) should read

aN2 + bN + (nothing else, an assumption)

p. 158, text line 9: word "conductances" should read "resistances"

p. 160, eqs. 6-26 should read

p. 162, eq. 6-29 (second part) sr T6 = etc.

p. 163, line under eq. 6-33, the word "expression" sr "expressions" (plural)

p. 166, eq. at bottom should read:

p.177. 2nd line up from bottom: .... to transfer of heat between....

p. 187, 2 lines after eq. 7-13: reference should be to Table 1.4 rather than 1.8.

p. 192, fig. 7-20 caption: interchange "left" and "right"

p.193 top title WORKS sr WORK

p. 199, eq. 7-49: should read

p. 208, sentence after eq. 7-66 should read: The resulting T2 varies between 3000 K for n=0 (pure C) and over 4000 K for large n (pure H2).

p. 243 third line from bottom "eq. 2-10" sr "eq. 2-6"

p. 243, eq. 9-2:

p. 244, 5th line 0-0 sr 0-2

p. 254 eq. 9-28 sr (pc rather tc)

p. 268, fig. 9-33: shading should be corrected as shown:

p.269, 5th line of text: delete parenthethis (sp?) after DT

p. 275, eq. 9-68 has an exponent problem with 1/N

p. 278 fig. 9-39 caption: multiplies

p. 282, 3rd line up from bottom: "kind" sr "find"

p. 301 problem 11. incooling sr intercooling

p. 358 [period] needed at end of 2nd paragraph

p. 361, 3rd paragraph, 4th line: " ... water boiler with a ~~some~~ finite DT.

end of 2nd paragraph sr:

These are listed in Table 11.1 and discussed in the following section.

p. 369, last word on 5th line sr "exit"

p.369 and 371, captions for figs. 11-29 and 11-30 should be interchanged

p. 379 reference abovve eq. 12-3 should be to eq. 4-77 (not -79)

p. 380. 2nd paragraph "It gives..."

p.427 fig. 12-34: two boxes should read enthalpy: u2 = 2 (ht- h)

p. 435 Ref. 12-2 "drag" not "dreg"

p. 478. fig. 14-1 (into paper) label should read (out of paper).

p. 491 8th line of text sr ( ).

p. 492 fig. 14-11 label (pt2/pt1) should read (pt2/pt1 -1)

p. 493 middle of page "schematically" misspelled

and "difference term ... " sr "second term tan

+ tan

p. 496 eq. 14-27 should read (there is an extra M in the first eqn.)

(14-27)

p.506 eq. 14-40 sr (+ sign)

p. 507 ordinate in fig. 14-24 sr r/r_T

p. 508 caption in fig. 14-26 sr x (not z)

p.509 top of page unnumbered eqn: a minus sign should follow first = sign

p. 552 q at the bottom of page sr q₂

_{p. .559 eq.
15-37 sr}

_{p. 560 eq. 15-40 sr}

_{and eq. 15-41}

_{p. 577 the inequality signs on line 6
are reversed: sr 0 <}b < 1

p. 581 line 5: fig. 14-17 sr 14-18

p. 589. two lines up from bottom: ref. should be to Fig. 16.7b (not 16.8c)

p. 590 eq. 16-31 should read (exponent "e" was omitted)

p. 590. section 16.7.1 line 4 ref. to fig. 14-17 sr 14-18.

p. 590. 2/3 down page .... (see Section 14.2.6) sr .....(see Section 14.3.7)

p. 596. eq 16-38 hth = 1 - [ same terms ]-1

p. 599 p. 1 line 5 sr: ... or d ln w / d ln q4 and ....

p. 658 table C-1 should have 42.716 rather than 72.716 for the enthalpy of H2.

p. 611 table 17-2 headings are shifted. Review whether fused silica ought to be retained here. Also in fig. 17-5, look into why brush and prismatic bars differ in Ks.

p. 615 line 4 imput sr "input"

p. 617 eq. 17-22 sr .... + n H2O + Q [not C]

p. 626 line 6 up from bottom plant sr "planet"

3rd paragr line 1 last word sr "than", not "that"

p. 630 fig. 18-1: change 'waster' to 'waste'

p. 631 sect 18.4.1 last len of first paragr "machines" sr "machine"

p.635 2nd paragr delete "(below)"

p. 637 middle of page "Should" sr "should", i.e. no cap

p. 641 middle of page "inportant" sr "important"