Engineers' Guide to Rotating Equipment

This handy reference source, is a companion volume to the author’s Engineers’ Guide to Pressure Equipment. Heavily illustrated, and containing a wealth of useful data, it offers inspectors, engineers, operatives, and those maintaining engineering equipment a one stop everyday package of information. It will be particularly helpful in guiding users through the legislation that regulates this field. Legislation has very important implications for works inspection and in-service inspection of mechanical plant.

An Engineers’ Guide to Rotating Equipment is packed with information, technical data, figures, tables and checklists. Details of relevant technical standards, the legislation and Accepted Codes of Practice (AcoPs) published by various bodies such as HSE and SAFed, are provided in addition to a number of website addresses and contact details.

COMPLETE CONTENTS:

• Engineering fundamentals
• Bending, torsion, and stress
• Motion and dynamics
• Rotating machine fundamentals: Vibration, balancing, and noise
• Machine elements
• Fluid mechanics
• Centrifugal pumps
• Compressors and turbocompressors
• Prime movers
• Draught plant
• Basic mechanical design
• Materials of construction
• The machinery directives
• Organisations and associations.

1. Early Environmental History

2. Current Environmental Regulatory Framework

3. Clean Air Act (CAA)

4. Clean Water Act (CWA)

5. Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA)

6. Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA)

7. Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA)

8. Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA-Superfund)

9. Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA)

10. Pollution Prevention Act (PPA)

APP. A. International Regulations

APP. B. ISO 14000

APP. C. Miscellaneous Topics

Clifford Matthews has worked throughout the world on IJV projects in business sectors as diverse as engineering, food distribution and project management.