Compressor application engineering / Pierre Pichot - Houston : Gulf Publishing, c 1986 - 2 v. : il.;, 24 cm.
v. 1:Compression equipment: Thermodynamic laws and formulas; compressor efficiency; positive displacement compressors; blowers with rotating lobes, sliding-vane compressors; screw-type rotary compressors; reciprocating compressors; characteristics and operating principles of turbocompressors, components of turbocompressors; centrifugal compressors; axial compressors v. 2:Drivers for rotating equipment: Electric motors; general characteristics of heat engines; gas engines; gas turbines; Free-piston gas generators; steam turbines; the Rankine cycle; Couplings.
Part I examines the thermodynamics laws and the definition of efficciency applied to compressors; part II examines the different types of compressors in each of two families. Volume 2 reviews the various drive machines used for compressors and their auxiliaries.