(1) An Introduction to the Study of Fuel (2) Diesel Engines for Land and Marine Work (3) Transactions of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (4) Reinforced Concrete Compression Member Diagram (5) Railway Signal Engineering (Mechanical)

Abstract

(1) THERE is scarcely any subject that repays scientific study better than that of the use (and abuse) of fuel, not only to the engineer and chemist, but to those who direct industries that consume fuel in one form or another. The profligate waste of our natural resources of fuel shows direct and melancholy evidence that the truths governing its utilisation are the property of a limited few, and that those who direct industries are only tardily learning that the trained chemist can teach many lessons of practical value. Such a volume as the one before us is to be welcomed, for though Dr. Brislee assumes technical knowledge on the part of the reader, it is no more than the elements of chemistry which those who control industries should possess or can command. Beginning with elementary chemical reactions, he shows how the equations of the chemist are not mere text-book conundrums, but the representation of actual changes taking place in every furnace, retort, and heat engine. He goes on to ascertain the weight of air necessary for the complete combustion of fuels of definite chemical composition, and chapter ii. makes this clear without unduly straining the reader's knowledge of elementary chemistry. The well-known methods of analysis are treated admirably, including the Orsat apparatus for determining the CO, CO₂ and O₂ in fuel and waste gases, also the delicate and somewhat troublesome explosion method for getting the H2 and marsh gas content in fuel gases.

(1) An Introduction to the Study of Fuel.

A textbook for those entering the Engineering, Chemical, and Technical Industries. By Dr. F. J. Brislee. (Outlines of Industrial Chemistry Series.) Pp. xxii + 269. (London: Constable and Co., Ltd., 1912.) Price 8s. 6d. net.

(2) Diesel Engines for Land and Marine Work.

By A. P. Chalkley. With an introductory chapter by Dr. Rudolf Diesel. Pp. xi + 226. (London: Constable and Co., Ltd., 1912.) Price 8s. 6d. net.

(3) Transactions of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.

Volume iii, 1910. Pp. iv + 407. (New York: D. Van Nostrand Company, and Spon and Chamberlain; London: E. and F. N. Spon, Ltd., 1911.) Price 25s. net.

(4) Reinforced Concrete Compression Member Diagram.

By Charles F. Marsh. (Diagram in case.) (London: Constable and Co., Ltd., n.d.) Price 3s. 6d. net.

(5) Railway Signal Engineering (Mechanical).

By L. P. Lewis. (The Glasgow Text-books.) Pp. xviii + 358. (London: Constable and Co., Ltd., 1912.) Price 8s. net.