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Title: Plant Engineers and Managers Guide to Energy Conservation by Albert Thumann ISBN: 0-88173-131-5 Publisher: Fairmont Press Pub. Date: October, 1991 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $68.00

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Average Customer Rating: 4 (1 review)

Rating: 4
Summary: Excellent "how to" book very informative
Comment: This book is a very good guide to explaining the micro and macroeconomics of energy conservation. The author uses a well thought out progression of chapters; the Role of the Plant Engineer in Energy Management, onto perhaps the most important chapter, Energy Economic Decision Making, which includes sample solved problems. Later chapters progress to electrical system optimization, utility optimization, heat transfer and losses, HVAC systems and cogeneration, and finally the future of energy conservation, where the macroeconomic effect of implementing current technology is discussed. The DOE is currently sponsoring projects in various common industrial processes that consume much of the nations energy, such as petroleum refining, and pulp processing where conservation and the latest technology will shave quads of BTU's off the nation's energy consumption. The early chapters in the book tell how to prioritize the conservation measures in a particular plant, the value of the present expenditures v.s. the future for estimating payback periods. The text is very well written, but it is surprising that a book on its sixth edition should be so full of typos, the grammatical ones can be figured out, but the ones concerning the solved problems should be corrected. A seventh edition with corrections and this would be a 5 star book.