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Identifier: americanengineer69newy (find matches)
Title: American engineer and railroad journal
Year: 1893 (1890s)
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Subjects: Railroad engineering Engineering Railroads Railroad cars
Publisher: New York : M.N. Forney
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
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gave no great troublewith overheating of the mass. The quantity of ash andclinker were not sufficient to require cleaning out duringperiod of eacli 12 hours test with this fuel. Steam pressurewas not always up to standard, but the proportion of time theboiler required aiding was small compared with the previousfuels tested, as will be seen. It would seem to have been shown by the tists that the pro-ducer as constructed (blue print of arrangement of which ac-companies report) was not large enough to supply this sizeboiler. On completion of tests with gas producer, it was disconnect-ed and the regular grates placed in tire-box of boilers. Aseries of tests was then made with same fuels burned in usualmanner. The figures shown in attached tabulated statementare totals and averages of three tests with eacli fuel and methodof combustion, a total of 36 tests having been made. (Signed) Howard Stillman, Engineer of Tests. 304 THE AMERICAN ENGINEER (July, 1895. GRATT1JJ a»S PRODUCER h *zt 30;
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■ri(>., .,,-.%,r.<<tftU i <- Ii vn am. SEN OP U I 0MOTXVB IU ILWI ■ PM> i\ FtJBL G*B, EXPERIMENTS ON THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC HAILROAD. Vol. IAIX, \„. 7.) AND RAILROAD JOURNAL. 305 A description Of the apparatus is here necessary to under-stand the tabulated report of Mr. Stillman.The gas producer .1 was of the ordinary pattern, fitted with a shaking grate-bar such as is used in locomotives. Twosteam-jet pipes (not shown) were arranged to the right and left It is not. uninteresting to note that the method of arrangingthe combining chamber behind the bridge wall is one applica-ble topmost any boiler, and that,as the grate bar Is not disturbed, either method of firing can be adopted according to the timethe boiler is to bo run. COMPARATIVE TEST WITH F1ELS IN GAS PRODUCER CONNECTED To STATIONARY BOILER AND BURNED ON GRATES OF a\MEBOILER IN CT80AL MANNER, BOILER SI IlLYING STEAM FOB ELECTRIC LIGHT ENGINE ONLY. SaiKAMCNTO Siu.es, FmroAHT, 1895. lone. Carbon H

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  • bookcentury:1800
  • booksubject:Railroad_engineering
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  • booksubject:Railroad_cars
  • bookpublisher:New_York___M_N__Forney
  • bookcontributor:Carnegie_Library_of_Pittsburgh
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