Tuesday, June 11, 2019

The Heat Efficiency of Steam Boilers: Land, Marine, and Locomotive


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In his professional career the Author has had frequent opportunities, during the last twenty-five years, of making Tests on Steam Boilers.

Some time ago he began to tabulate many experiments, and, as the list continually increased, he considered that it might prove useful as a collection of facts, if thrown into the shape of a book. With this object he has added the results of various trials made by others, as well as chapters on combustion and kindred subjects. He has endeavoured to make the book as practical as possible, and useful as a reference for Engineers, and those interested in the economical production of steam. The history of Steam Boilers, which dates back 100 to 150 years, is not touched upon, as it would be foreign to his purpose. Boiler tests, in his opinion, are useless and even misleading, unless the heating value of the fuel, analysis of gases, evaporation of water, and boiler efficiency are given. Many engineers are satisfied with recording only the evaporative results in lbs. of water per lb. of fuel ; but, considering how largely fuels differ in their heating value and percentage of incombustible matter, such tests cannot be regarded as satisfactory or exhaustive. So much heat is given to a boiler in the shape of fuel, the greater part of which is usefully employed in evaporating water, while a certain percentage, large or small, is wasted. Many manufacturers, even in England, will now guarantee a certain boiler efficiency with a given fuel. In other words, with coal of known quality and heating value (without economiser) they will guarantee that, say, 70% of the heat shall be converted into steam of a certain pressure from a certain temperature of feed water, and so many lbs. of water evaporated per square foot . of heating surface per hour.

Content:-
CHAPTER I: CLASSIFICATION OF DIFFERENT TYPES OF BOILERS
CHAPTER II: EXPLANATION OF THE HEADINGS OF THE TABLES.
CHAPTER III: TABLES OF EXPERIMENTS ON BOILERS
CHAPTER IV: FIRE GRATES OF VARIOUS TYPES
CHAPTER V: MECHANICAL STOKERS
CHAPTER VI: COMBUSTION OF FUEL IN BOILERS
CHAPTER VII: TRANSMISSION OF HEAT THROUGH BOILER PLATES, AND THEIR TEMPERATURE
CHAPTER VIII: FEED WATER HEATERS, SUPERHEATERS, FEED PUMPS, ETC
CHAPTER IX: SMOKE AND ITS PREVENTION
CHAPTER X: INSTRUMENTS USED IN TESTING BOILERS
CHAPTER XI: MARINE AND LOCOMOTIVE BOILERS
CHAPTER XII: FUEL TESTING STATIONS
CHAPTER XIII: DISCUSSION OF THE TRIALS AND CONCLUSIONS
CHAPTER XIV: ON THE CHOICE OF A BOILER OF A BOILER, AND TESTING OF LAND, MARINE, AND LOCOMOTIVE BOILERS
APPENDICES
INDEX

Author Details
"BRYAN DONKIN"




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