Civil Engineering Reference
In-Depth Information
is generally organized in tables to facilitate elaboration by a standard spreadsheet.
Economic evaluations of each example are shown in Table
19.3
.
Basic formulas, data, and KPIs that everybody involved in energy conversion
should know are reported in Chap.
20
.
The SI system has been used; for ease of understanding, other units commonly
used have been added.
Efforts have been made to attribute a single-letter symbol to each physical
quantity. Because of the number of topics introduced, some symbols have different
meanings according to the context and to the common practice; in these cases, the
list of symbols indicates the chapters to which these symbols apply.
References are at the end of the topic in chronological order.
