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Tolley's Industrial and Commercial Gas Installation Practice

Tolley's Industrial and Commercial Gas Installation Practice

This is the third of three essential reference volumes for those concerned with the installation and servicing of domestic and industrial gas equipment. This volume explains the basic principles underlying the practical and theoretical aspects of installing and servicing gas appliances and associated equipment from the basics of combustion to burners pressure and flow transfer of heat controls as well as materials and processes electrical aspects and metering and measuring devices. Covering both Natural Gas and Liquefied Petroleum Gas the many illustrations and worked examples included throughout the text will help the reader to understand the principles under discussion. Volume 3 of the Gas Service Technology Series will enable the reader to put into practice the safe installation and servicing procedures described in the companion volumes: Basic Science and Practice of Gas Service (Volume 1) and Domestic Gas Installation Practice (Volume 2). Combining a comprehensive reference with practical application in real-world engineering contexts Volume 3 provides an essential handbook for all aspects of fundamental gas servicing technology ideal for both students new to the field as well as professionals and non-operational professionals (e. g. specifiers managers supervisors) as an ongoing source of reference. | Tolley's Industrial and Commercial Gas Installation Practice

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Tolley's Basic Science and Practice of Gas Service

Tolley's Basic Science and Practice of Gas Service

This is the first of three essential reference volumes for those concerned with theinstallation and servicing of domestic and industrial gas equipment. This volumeexplains the basic principles underlying the practical and theoretical aspects ofinstalling and servicing gas appliances and associated equipment from the basics ofcombustion to burners pressure and flow transfer of heat controls as well asmaterials and processes electrical aspects and metering and measuring devices. The revised fifth edition is brought fully up to date with current Standards andlegislation to reflect recent developments in industry in line with requirements of theACS Certificates of Competence and NVQs. Covering both natural gas andliquefied petroleum gas the many illustrations and worked examples includedthroughout the text will help the reader to understand the principles under discussion. Volume 1 of the Gas Service Technology Series will enable the reader to put intopractice the safe installation and servicing procedures described in the companionvolumes: Domestic Gas Installation Practice (Volume 2) and Industrial andCommercial Gas Installation Practice (Volume 3). Combining a comprehensivereference with practical application in real-world engineering contexts Volume 1provides an essential handbook for all aspects of fundamental gas servicingtechnology ideal for both students new to the field as well as professionals and noneoperational professionals (e. g. specifiers managers supervisors) as an ongoing source of reference. | Tolley's Basic Science and Practice of Gas Service

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Demons of Domesticity Women and the English Gas Industry 1889–1939

Demons of Domesticity Women and the English Gas Industry 1889–1939

Demons of Domesticity offers a social history of the English gas industry from the 1880s to the late 1930s with an emphasis on the corporations that served London and the Home Counties. It documents the hitherto unexamined role that women played in the development of the industry by considering two major interlocking themes: the expansion of sales occupations for women in the English gas industry and the parallel growth and diversification of the industry's marketing strategies. During the late-nineteenth century the home became the focal point for a number of debates concerning female employment and gender roles. As an increasing number of labour saving domestic devices came onto the market women found themselves targeted by manufacturing companies and utility suppliers both as consumers and advocates. Foremost among these companies were representatives of the gas industry who actively addressed domestic issues. As the promoters purveyors and consumers of domestic technology Demons of Domesticity suggests that English female employees and consumers were not the hapless dupes of corporate marketing but instead had clear ideas about how domestic technology could and should be used to reconfigure the public and private spaces of work and home. | Demons of Domesticity Women and the English Gas Industry 1889–1939

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Everyday Energy Politics in Central Asia and the Caucasus Citizens’ Needs Entitlements and Struggles for Access

Everyday Energy Politics in Central Asia and the Caucasus Citizens’ Needs Entitlements and Struggles for Access

The perception of Central Asia and its place in the world has come to be shaped by its large oil and gas reserves. Literature on energy in the region has thus largely focused on related geopolitical issues and national policies. However little is known about citizens’ needs within this broader context of commodities that connect the energy networks of China Russia and the West. This multidisciplinary special issue brings together anthropologists economists geographers and political scientists to examine the role of all forms of energy (here: oil gas hydropower and solar power) and their products (especially electricity) in people’s daily lives throughout Central Asia and the Caucasus. The papers in this issue ask how energy is understood as an everyday resource as a necessity and a source of opportunity a challenge or even as an indicator of exclusionary practices. We enquire into the role and views of energy sector workers rural consumers and urban communities and their experiences of energy companies’ and national policies. We further examine the legacy of Soviet and more recent domestic energy policies the environmental impact of energy use as well as the political impact of citizens’ energy grievances. This book was published as a special issue of Central Asian Survey. | Everyday Energy Politics in Central Asia and the Caucasus Citizens’ Needs Entitlements and Struggles for Access

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HVAC Engineer's Handbook

HVAC Engineer's Handbook

In the almost sixty years since the publication of the first edition of HVAC Engineer's Handbook it has become widely known as a highly useful and definitive reference for HVAC engineers and technicians alike and those working on domestic hot and cold water services gas supply and steam services. The 11th edition continues in the tradition of previous editions being easily transportable and therefore an integral part of the HVAC engineer or technician's daily tools. Newly updated data on natural ventilation ventilation rates free cooling and night-time cooling make the 11th edition of the HVAC Engineer's Handbook a vital source of information. Fred Porges has worked in both the manufacturing and process industries and became a partner in a building services consultancy in 1962. He has held senior positions with design contractors and his experience covers every building service and type of building from schools to housing factories to laboratories.

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Domestic Central Heating Wiring Systems and Controls

Domestic Central Heating Wiring Systems and Controls

This unique A-Z guide to central heating wiring systems provides a comprehensive reference manual for hundreds of items of heating and control equipment making it an indispensable handbook for electricians and installers across the country. The book provides comprehensive coverage of wiring and technical specifications and now includes increased coverage of combination boilers recently developed control features and SEDBUK (Seasonal Efficiency of Domestic Boilers in the UK) boilers ratings where known. In addition to providing concise details of nearly 500 different boilers fuelled by electric gas oil and solid fuel and over 400 programmers and time switches this invaluable resource also features numerous easy-to-understand wiring diagrams with notes on all definitive systems. Brief component descriptions are provided along with updated contact and website details for most major manufacturers. Ray Ward has spent over 20 years as a specialist in the field of wiring domestic central heating systems and the knowledge he has gained from hands-on experience and staff training is now brought together in this comprehensive handbook. | Domestic Central Heating Wiring Systems and Controls

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A Practical Guide to Cost Engineering

A Practical Guide to Cost Engineering

A Practical Guide to Cost Engineering aims to show you how to work as a cost engineer out in the real world. Written by an experienced cost engineer and training program developer this book introduces the practical side of cost management (cost estimation cost reduction and cost control) through real cases and realistic examples from a diverse range of engineering-based projects. With examples from nuclear oil and gas and renewable energy sectors the book introduces and demonstrates the activities of the cost engineer throughout a project life cycle. The content is divided into logical sections covering basic concepts cost estimation cost control economic feasibility sustainability and more and the chapters are packed full of features such as definitions formulas exercises and examples. The focus is on providing a practical approach where the reader can first understand a concept and then apply it using an Excel tool developed by the author which allows the reader to simulate different scenarios and results. The simple approach focusing on essential information backed up by practical scenarios presented in this book allows cost engineers and related professionals to execute and understand their activities develop their professional skills and even develop in-house training programs.

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Planning for Climate Change A Reader in Green Infrastructure and Sustainable Design for Resilient Cities

Planning for Climate Change A Reader in Green Infrastructure and Sustainable Design for Resilient Cities

This book provides an overview of the large and interdisciplinary literature on the substance and process of urban climate change planning and design using the most important articles from the last 15 years to engage readers in understanding problems and finding solutions to this increasingly critical issue. The Reader’s particular focus is how the impacts of climate change can be addressed in urban and suburban environments—what actions can be taken as well as the need for and the process of climate planning. Both reducing greenhouse gas emissions as well as adapting to future climate are explored. Many of the emerging best practices in this field involve improving the green infrastructure of the city and region—providing better on-site stormwater management more urban greening to address excess heat zoning for regional patterns of open space and public transportation corridors and similar actions. These actions may also improve current public health and livability in cities bringing benefits now and into the future. This Reader is innovative in bringing climate adaptation and green infrastructure together encouraging a more hopeful perspective on the great challenge of climate change by exploring both the problems of climate change and local solutions. | Planning for Climate Change A Reader in Green Infrastructure and Sustainable Design for Resilient Cities

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Introduction to Advertising Understanding and Managing the Advertising Process

Introduction to Advertising Understanding and Managing the Advertising Process

This book is an introductory roadmap to the advertising process. Advertising is explored as a creative communication message from a brand created by advertising agencies and distributed across different media to target the right consumers. The book provides an understanding of the benefits of advertising its role in the economy and even more so acknowledges that advertisements are not only about selling but also about effectively communicating a message. The creative and conceptual approach towards the communication process is discussed and insight is presented into the dynamics within the industry and the different stakeholders involved while recognising how different creative elements in advertisements are consciously selected to make them appealing. Finally it considers how to analyse and measure an advert’s effectiveness and looks ahead to future ideas and technologies arising in advertising. Effectively combining theory with practical insight each chapter begins with learning objectives and ends with key learnings. International case studies feature throughout including insights from British Gas WPP Audi and KFC as well as other examples from smaller organisations and the non-profit sector. Taking students step by step through the advertising process it is important reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students studying Advertising Brand Management Marketing Communications and Media Planning. | Introduction to Advertising Understanding and Managing the Advertising Process

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Choreographing Dirt Movement Performance and Ecology in the Anthropocene

Choreographing Dirt Movement Performance and Ecology in the Anthropocene

This book is an innovative study that places performance and dance studies in conversation with ecology by exploring the significance of dirt in performance. Focusing on a range of 20th- and 21st-century performances that include modern dance dance-theatre Butoh and everyday life this book demonstrates how the choreography of dirt makes biological geographical and cultural meaning what the author terms biogeocultography. Whether it’s the Foundling Father digging into the earth’s strata in Suzan-Lori Park’s The America Play (1994) peat hurling through the air in Pina Bausch’s The Rite of Spring (1975) dancers frantically shovelling out fistfuls of dirt in Eveoke Dance Theatre’s Las Mariposas (2010) or Butoh performers dancing with fungi in Iván-Daniel Espinosa’s Messengers Divinos (2018) each example shows how the incorporation of dirt can reveal micro-level interactions between species – like the interplay between microscopic skin bacteria and soil protozoa – and macro-level interactions – like the transformation of peat to a greenhouse gas. By demonstrating the stakes of moving dirt this book posits that performance can operate as a space to grapple with the multifaceted ecological dilemmas of the Anthropocene. This book will be of broad interest to both practitioners and researchers in theatre performance studies dance ecocriticism and the environmental humanities. | Choreographing Dirt Movement Performance and Ecology in the Anthropocene

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China’s Climate-Energy Policy Domestic and International Impacts

China’s Climate-Energy Policy Domestic and International Impacts

China’s recent climate-energy policy an outcome of contemporary challenges has generated conflict of interest amongst major stakeholders. Coupled with a boost in demand for oil gas and coal as well as a rapid growth in wind and solar power it has not only affected domestic fossil fuel and renewable energy providers but has also provoked a resource boom affecting development pathways internationally. This book therefore seeks to examine the economic social and ecological effects associated with China’s climate-energy policy. Assessing how the policy has been and will be formulated and implemented it analyses the changing use of energy CO2 emissions and GDP as well as social and environmental impacts both domestically and internationally. It presents in-depth case studies on specific policies in China and on its resource exporting countries such as Indonesia Australia Myanmar and Mongolia. At the same time using quantitative data it provides detailed input-output and applied computable general equilibrium analyses. Arguing that China has actively advanced its climate-energy policy to become a leader of global climate governance it demonstrates that China ultimately relocates the cost of its climate-energy policy to resource exporting countries. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of energy the environment and sustainability as well as Chinese Studies and economics. | China’s Climate-Energy Policy Domestic and International Impacts

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Environmental Economics and Natural Resource Management

Environmental Economics and Natural Resource Management

The tools of environmental economics guide policymakers as they weigh development against nature present against future and certain benefits against uncertain consequences. The policies and research findings explained in this textbook are relevant to decisions made daily by individuals firms and governments. This textbook offers instructors and students a user-friendly relevant and up-to-date introduction to these topics while covering recent advancements in the field and significant political and economic changes. The fifth edition has been thoroughly updated while retaining the story-based narratives and visual emphasis of previous editions capturing students’ attention with full-color photos graphs and illustrations. It addresses the impact of changes in world leaders national priorities and international agreements along with key developments in the energy sector. These include the way hydraulic fracturing and the surging popularity of natural gas have revolutionized the fossil fuel industries; how new green-energy technologies are bringing prices down and efficiency levels up; and the arrival of innovative energy sources such as ocean-thermal energy conversion. Environmental Economics and Natural Resource Management promotes environmental and economic literacy with policy-oriented application-based content all delivered in concise accessible discussions. Through its engaging approach the text brings the economic way of thinking into discussions of personal community corporate and government activities that affect environmental assets and the quality of life.

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Rebuilding America's Cities

Rebuilding America's Cities

A growing cooperation between the public and private sectors indicates that the tasks of redevelopment are too large and complex for either sector to accomplish alone. Some people maintain that government can do few things right; others are equally distrustful of the private sector. As used here the private sector is considered to be all that is not government. Each of the success stories illustrated is in part a road to recovery although none appear to have been influenced by a purpose that broad. Paul R. Porter and David C. Sweet present stories of progress in self-reliance that concern neighborhood and downtown recoveries school improvement job generation a regained fiscal solvency novel financing techniques helping tenants to become homeowners and a successful venture in self-help and tenant management in crime-infested neighborhoods. The successes stem from the diverse community roles of Yale University a medical center the world's largest research organization the Clorox Company a gas company an insurance company a newspaper neighborhood and downtown organizations city governments and two religious organizations - the Mormon Church and the tiny Church of the Savior. These stories are located throughout the United States including Akron Baltimore Brooklyn Cincinnati Cleveland Columbus Fort Wayne Indianapolis Milwaukee New Haven Oakland Pittsburgh St. Louis St. Paul Salt Lake City Springfield Mass. Tampa and Washington D. C. The editors have gathered the work of professionals known in the field of urban studies: James W. Rouse Donald E. Lasater Rolf Goetze Dale F. Bertsch Joel Lieske Eugene H. Methvin James E. Kunde T. Michael Smith Robert Mier Carol Davidow Jay Chatterjee June Manning Thomas Norman Krumholz Larry C. Ledebur and Robert C. Holland. | Rebuilding America's Cities

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Collision of Empires Italy's Invasion of Ethiopia and its International Impact

Collision of Empires Italy's Invasion of Ethiopia and its International Impact

Italy's invasion of Ethiopia in 1935 marked a turning point in interwar Europe. The last great European colonial conquest in Africa the conflict represented an enormous gamble for the Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini. He faced a challenge not only from a stout Ethiopian defence but also from difficult logistics made worse by the League of Nations' half-hearted sanctions. Mussolini faced down this opposition and Italian troops aided by air superiority and liberal use of yprite gas conquered Addis Ababa within eight months a victory that shocked many military observers of the time with its speed and suddenness. The invasion had enormous repercussions on European international relations. In the midst of a national election campaign the British National Government had felt constrained to support the League despite fears that sanctions through the League could lead to war with Italy. The concentration of the Royal Navy in the Mediterranean Sea alienated Mussolini and placed the French government on the horns of dilemma; should France support its military partner Italy or its more important potential ally Great Britain? French attempts to mark out a middle ground did little to placate the Duce and the crisis seemed to develop a deep rift between Fascist Italy and the Anglo-French democracies while at the same time creating a crisis in Anglo-French relations. Mussolini turned towards Nazi Germany in an attempt to end his diplomatic isolation during the sanctions episode although Hitler considered the Duce's friendship a mixed blessing. The question of American adherence to sanctions increased ill will between British politicians and the Roosevelt administration in Washington as each tended to blame the other for the failure of oil sanctions and the collapse of collective security. The international crisis posed similarly thorny problems for the smaller powers of Europe and for Japan and the Soviet Union. The crisis impeded common defence against Fascist expansionism while giving impetus to claims of the revisionist powers. Despite the tremendous importance of the international crisis however little new work on the subject has appeared in recent decades. In this volume an international cast of contributors take a fresh look at the crisis through the lens of new evidence and new approaches to international relations history to provide the most comprehensive coverage of the crisis currently possible and their work provides new frames of reference for exploring imperialism collective security and genocide. | Collision of Empires Italy's Invasion of Ethiopia and its International Impact

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