Power House Design

Abstract

THE second edition of this important work will be welcomed by all engineers who are interested in power-station design. The author is the chairman of the Electricity Commissioners; he has been both a distributing and a consulting engineer, and has therefore studied the problem from all points of view. The book is a storehouse of facts which will be of great value to the designer. The general principles which should be followed are laid down and illustrated by clear descriptions of many modern power stations. It is interesting to note that these stations are of very; varied design. This is doubtless due partly to the individual experience of the designers, but it also bears out the author's contention that every case must be considered on its own merits, and so the solution applicable in one case may be unsuitable in another. The apparatus inside a power station should be standardised as much as possible, but at the present time it would be inadvisable to attempt to standardise the station itself. Power House Design. By Sir J. F. C. Snell. (Longmans' Electrical Engineering Series.) Second edition. Pp. xi + 535. (London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1921.) 42s. net.