Fireground Strategies

Fireground Strategies
Author: Anthony Avillo
Publisher: Fire Engineering Books
Total Pages: 736
Release: 2008
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1593701594

This book has been revised and expanded to include new material on decentralization, further incident reporting, and post-control activities, estate homes, New Millennium multiple dwellings, storage occupancies, strategic considerations of renovation and more."--Jacket.

Flashover

Flashover
Author: Suzanne Chazin
Publisher: Jove
Total Pages: 390
Release: 2003
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780515135084

In this follow-up to Chazin's debut novel, The Fourth Angel, Fire Marshal Georgia Skeehan investigates the deaths of two doctors, both victims of fires. Georgia finds frightening evidence that greed and deception are the cause of these recent deaths and perhaps one more to come--her own.

The Electrical Engineering Handbook

The Electrical Engineering Handbook
Author: Wai Kai Chen
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 1227
Release: 2004-11-16
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0080477488

The Electrical Engineer's Handbook is an invaluable reference source for all practicing electrical engineers and students. Encompassing 79 chapters, this book is intended to enlighten and refresh knowledge of the practicing engineer or to help educate engineering students. This text will most likely be the engineer's first choice in looking for a solution; extensive, complete references to other sources are provided throughout. No other book has the breadth and depth of coverage available here. This is a must-have for all practitioners and students! The Electrical Engineer's Handbook provides the most up-to-date information in: Circuits and Networks, Electric Power Systems, Electronics, Computer-Aided Design and Optimization, VLSI Systems, Signal Processing, Digital Systems and Computer Engineering, Digital Communication and Communication Networks, Electromagnetics and Control and Systems.About the Editor-in-Chief...Wai-Kai Chen is Professor and Head Emeritus of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He has extensive experience in education and industry and is very active professionally in the fields of circuits and systems. He was Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, Series I and II, President of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society and is the Founding Editor and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Circuits, Systems and Computers. He is the recipient of the Golden Jubilee Medal, the Education Award, and the Meritorious Service Award from the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, and the Third Millennium Medal from the IEEE. Professor Chen is a fellow of the IEEE and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.* 77 chapters encompass the entire field of electrical engineering.* THOUSANDS of valuable figures, tables, formulas, and definitions.* Extensive bibliographic references.

Epoxy-based Spacers for Gas Insulated Power Apparatus

Epoxy-based Spacers for Gas Insulated Power Apparatus
Author: Boxue Du
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 494
Release: 2022-11-13
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9811971110

This book offers an insight into the insulation failures in GIS/GIL and provides practical guidance for improving the insulation reliability of epoxy-based spacers. High voltage gas-insulated apparatuses, including gas-insulated switchgears (GIS) and transmission lines (GIL), playing an important role in the global power transmission system. Epoxy-based spacers are key components in GIS/GIL, playing the role of electrical insulation and mechanical support. However, insulation failures frequently occur around the epoxy-based spacers, threatening the safe operation of the electric power system. Three topics make up this book, with seven to nine chapters in each topic. In the first topic, the surface charging and discharging behaviors of epoxy-based spacers are discussed to deepen the readers’ understanding on the insulation problems in GIS/GIL. And the insulation breakdown of epoxy-based spacers is found to be closely related to the electric field distortion under complex operating conditions. In the second topic, original researches on the surface functionally graded materials (SFGM) are presented for relaxing the electric field distortion around the epoxy-based spacers in both AC and DC GIS/GIL, and a series of optimization methods and fabrication techniques for the SFGM spacers are introduced and discussed. In the last topic, the nonlinear conductivity materials (NCM), also known as self-adaptive materials or intelligent materials, are applied as coatings to adaptively regulate the electric field distributions along the surfaces of the epoxy-based spacers. Besides, the concept of the multi-dimensional functionally graded materials (MFGM) is proposed to uniform the electric field distributions in DC GIS/GIL under stationary and transient voltages, exhibiting great potential in the future application.

Polyimide for Electronic and Electrical Engineering Applications

Polyimide for Electronic and Electrical Engineering Applications
Author: Sombel Diaham
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2021-05-05
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1838800972

Polyimide is one of the most efficient polymers in many industries for its excellent thermal, electrical, mechanical, and chemical properties as well as its easy processability. In the electronic and electrical engineering industries, polyimide has widely been used for decades thanks to its very good dielectric and insulating properties at the high electric field and at high temperatures of around 200°C in long term-service. Moreover, polyimide appears essential for the development of new electronic devices where further considerations such as high power density, integration, higher temperature, thermal conduction management, energy storage, reliability, or flexibility are required in order to sustain the growing global electrical energy consumption. This book gathers interdisciplinary chapters on polyimide in various topics through state-of-the-art and original ongoing research.

Advances in Power and Energy Engineering

Advances in Power and Energy Engineering
Author: Yuanzhang Sun
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 723
Release: 2016-04-05
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 131567680X

Energy and power are playing pivotal roles in social and economic developments of the modern world. Energy and power engineers and technologists have made our lives much more comfortable and affordable. However, due to the demands of the global population on resources and the environment, innovations of more reliable and sustainable energy res

User's Manual for NFPA 921

User's Manual for NFPA 921
Author: National Fire Protection Association
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning
Total Pages: 456
Release: 2006-03
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9780763744021

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Fireground Strategies, 3rd Edition

Fireground Strategies, 3rd Edition
Author: Anthony Avillo
Publisher: Fire Engineering Books
Total Pages: 655
Release: 2015-10-28
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1593703538

The third edition of Chief Anthony Avillo’s bestselling Fireground Strategies is an invaluable resource for the education and development of outstanding fire officers. Through case studies and illustrative examples, Avillo covers how to identify a strategy, develop an action plan, and implement tactics to meet the objectives of the course of action on a fireground. Fireground Strategies is a required text in senior-level undergraduate firefighting strategies courses and is recommended reading for promotional exams across the United States. New to the third edition: Expanded incident command chapters covering all aspects of fireground controlStreet-level strategies focusing on the modern fire environmentImproved section on resource management and additional alarm guidelinesRetailored strategic and tactical activities to integrate the latest attack and ventilation researchRevamped operational safety chapter including department-level safety programs and mechanisms designed to support and foster a culture of safetyNew case studies designed to drive home main points including lessons learnedStrategic considerations of solar panelsComprehensive guidelines on “Buildings that Change the Rules of the Game”Updated vent-enter-isolate-search (VEIS) informationExpanded section on risk management and “who, what, where” vs. LUNARImproved operational suggestions for high-rise operations

Gaseous Dielectrics IX

Gaseous Dielectrics IX
Author: Loucas G. Christophorou
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 642
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1461505836

Gaseous Dielectrics IX covers recent advances and developments in a wide range of basic, applied, and industrial areas of gaseous dielectrics.