The Gas Engineer's Dictionary

摘要

The Gas Engineer 's Dictionary - Supply In-frastructure from A to Z, Auihors: Klaus Homann, Rainer Reimert, Bernhard Klocke. Publisher: DIV Deutscher Industrieverlag, 2013, 452 p., Interactive ebook (online read access), ISBN 13: 9783835632141, ISBN 10: 3835632140 Technological developments change the en-ergy world - especially the gas business -daily and with increasing pace. Understand-ing the fundamentals of gas industry and technology is therefore mandatory for all in-volved players. This book aims at a quick and efficient knowledge acquisition for peo-ple with diverse technical or non-technical backgrounds, which is a very ambitious goal. Newcomers as well as experts should find the relevant information in concise form in order to become or to stay informed. The authors chose the very appealing con-cept of thirty key words which could be seen as headlines or chapters of their dictionary. Choosing one of these key words the reader could Start to "dig" into the matter very fast. The chapters linked to these key words com-prise from two to thirty pages which seems to be unbalanced at a first glance. However, the intelligent choice of these thirty fundamental items or subjects by the authors re-veals their expertise obtained from decades of involvement in education and gas business and offers many benefits to the reader. Most basic questions can be answered by just reading one of these paragraphs without the need to jump from chapter to chapter or to read lengthy introductions. Where ever necessary references to other scientific and technical publications are included. Further-more, the dictionary includes an interactive ebook with online read access which offers a first step towards e-leaning.