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Acknowledgments<br />

I wish to thank the following people for their assistance in proofreading<br />

this book and for their suggestions and ideas: Robin Kellogg,<br />

Editor of Western Energy Magazine; Carl Gipson, Jr., MSME, my<br />

sister Loretta Giampaolo, BAN, RN; and my son Vince Giampaolo,<br />

MSM&PO, MANS&SS, Lt. Comdr., USN. I must also thank Paul<br />

Crossman for his support in arranging the first Gas Turbine Seminar,<br />

upon which this book is based.<br />

I am also grateful for the support I have received from my family:<br />

my wife, my children and their spouses.<br />

I would like to acknowledge the contribution of Mr. Eldon F. Ray,<br />

Jr., P.E., for providing the chapter on acoustics (Chapter 10).<br />

Finally I would like to thank the following companies for their<br />

confidence and support by providing many of the photographs and<br />

charts that are in this book:<br />

ABB STAL AB<br />

American Air Filter International<br />

ASEA Brown Boveri AG<br />

Baltimore Aircoil Company<br />

Capstone Turbine Corp.<br />

Catalytica Combustion Systems<br />

Cooper Cameron Corporation<br />

DEMAG DELAVAL Turbomachinery Corp.<br />

Diesel & Gas Turbine Worldwide Catalog<br />

Elliott Energy System, Inc.<br />

Farr Filter Company<br />

General Electric Company<br />

Harbor Cogeneration Company<br />

Ingersoll-Rand Energy Systems<br />

Olympus America Inc.<br />

Rolls Royce Industrial & Marine Gas Turbines Limited<br />

Solar Turbines Incorporated<br />

SRI International<br />

United Technologies Corporation Hamilton Standard Division<br />

United Technologies Corporation Pratt & Whitney Aircraft<br />

United Technologies Corporation Pratt & Whitney Canada<br />

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