Steam-boiler Practice: In Its Relation to Fuels and Their Combustion and the Economic Results Obtained with Various Methods and Devices

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J. Wiley & sons, 1899 - Steam-boilers - 297 pages
 

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Page 12 - Law. — The temperature remaining the same, the volume of a given quantity of gas varies inversely as the pressure.
Page 280 - In all trials made to ascertain maximum economy or capacity, the conditions should be maintained uniformly constant. Arrangements should be made to dispose of the steam so that the rate of evaporation may be kept the same from beginning to end. This may be accomplished in a single boiler by carrying the steam through a waste steam pipe, the discharge from which can be regulated as desired.
Page 278 - The conditions of the boiler and furnace in all respects should be, as nearly as possible, the same at the end as at the beginning of the test. The steam pressure should be the same; the...
Page 277 - Clearfield (Pa.), Cumberland (Md.), and Pocahontas (Va.) coals are thus regarded. West of the Allegheny Mountains, Pocahontas (Va.) and New River (W. Va.) semi-bituminous, and Youghiogheny or Pittsburg bituminous coals are recognized as standards.* There is no special grade of coal mined in the Western States which is widely recognized as of superior quality or considered as a standard coal for boiler testing. Big Muddy lump, an Illinois coal...

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