Steam power plants, their design and construction (1905) (14799618863)

Identifier: steampowerplan01meye (find matches)
Title: Steam power plants, their design and construction
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Meyer, Henry Coddington, 1870-
Subjects: Steam power-plants
Publisher: New York, McGraw
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress



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-Ninety-Sixth Street Powkk Station, Metropolitan Street Railway Company, New York.il. c. starrbtt, chief bxgi.nesr: f. s. pisrson. consulting engineer. STEAM POWER PLANTS. 17 being considered, and construct the boilers so that it can be used.Many plants have been somewhat handicapped by the failure oftheir designer to consider this subject. Some coals, besides hav-ing less heating power per pound than others, cannot be burnedat as high a rate of combustion on account of peculiar propertiesthey possess. For instance, with the finer sizes of anthracite coal,it is impossible, unless mechanical draft is used, to burn morethan a limited amount on a grate, as the particles pack togetherso closely that the air cannot get through the bed of fuel in suffi-cient quantity to permit a rapid combustion. Again a coal highin ash and sulphur is limited in the rate at which it can be burned.Of course, if only a limited amount of fuel can be burned on agrate, the grate has to be made large in proportio