This comprehensive Handbook has been fully updated and expanded for the second edition. Itcovers all major aspects of power plant design, operation, and maintenance. The second editionincludes not only an updating of the technology, which has taken great leaps forward in the lastdecade, but also introduces new subjects. It assimilates subject matter of various papers, andsometimes diverse views, into a comprehensive, unified treatment of combined cycle powerplants. Illustrations, with curves