(1) Fuels and their Combustion (2) Industrial Stoichiometry: Chemical Calculations of Manufacturing Processes

Abstract

(1) THE question of the economical use of fuel is becoming steadily more insistent, but the problems involved are far from simple. Most textbooks, on the subject deal only with some aspects, and there is a distinct need for a text-book giving a general view of the whole subject, descriptions of the various natural fuels, the principles underlying their use for different purposes, together with examples of how these principles are applied in practice. The book by Profs. Haslam and Russell is intended to fill this gap, and does so with success. It deals with many points on which information is not readily available, and the fact that it is written for use in America, though it detracts to some extent from its usefulness in Great Britain, enhances its interest in other respects. It makes very clear the complexity of the problems involved in the economic use of fuel and the necessity both for further research and the better dissemination of the knowledge already existing.

(1) Fuels and their Combustion.

By Prof. Robert T. Haslam Prof. Robert P. Russell. Pp. xiv + 809. (New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc.; London: McGraw-Hill Publishing Co., Ltd., 1926.) 37s. 6d. net.

(2) Industrial Stoichiometry: Chemical Calculations of Manufacturing Processes.

By Warren K. Lewis Prof. Arthur H. Radasch. (Chemical Engineering Series.) Pp. xi + 174. (New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc.; London: McGraw-Hill Publishing Co., Ltd., 1926.) 12s. 6d. net.