Book Reviews
to the work carried out to increase our knowledge of luminous flames for example by the International Flame Research Foundation.
It is rather odd, after a long and interesting discourse on nucleate and other boiling regimes, related to burn-out in Section 2, 4, 1, to find the subject avoided at the end of Section 2,14. The absence of an Index makes cross referencing and the location of specific subjects difficult, whilst a more complete and wider list of references would have enabled the reader to seek the evidence for the often rather categorical statements which, of necessity, summarise extensive, still active and occasionally controversial research and development work.
However, these criticisms are trivial compared to the value of the book as a whole, both as a readable text book giving a comprehensive picture of the 'state of the art' of boiler design and as a volume which I know I shall find useful to have on the shelf to refresh my memory as the need arises on a whole range of subjects, from the selection of fans to the case for the thermal drying of coal, from the design of milling equipment to the stressing of boiler tubes, and so on, G. G. Thurlow