V. Ganapathy is a Heat Transfer Specialist at ABCO Industries, Abilene, Texas, where he is engaged in the engineering of steam generators and HRSGs. The author or coauthor of five books, including the Steam Plant Calculations Manual , Second Edition, Revised and Expanded, more than 250 professional publications and various contributions to the Encyclopedia of Chemical Processing and Technology (both titles, Marcel Dekker, Inc.), he received the B. Tech. degree (1969) from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras and the M. Sc. degree (1972) from Madras University, India.