Elements of Fuel Oil and Steam Engineering

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Excerpt from Elements of Fuel Oil and Steam Engineering: A Practical Treatise Dealing With Fuel Oil, for the Central Station Man, the Power Plant Operator, the Mechanical Engineer and the StudentThe many illustrative problems that have been worked out in the chapters on steam engineering and boiler economy are based upon the data obtained from the latest edition of Marks Davis' Tables and Diagrams of the Thermal Properties of Saturated and Superheated Steam, published by Longmans, Green Company, Which may be purchased through any reputable book dealer for the sum of one dollar. For a careful study of these illustrative examples the reader should provide himself With a copy of these steam tables, although this is not necessary for most of the discussions on fuel oil and furnace design as treated in the text.The six beautiful views of the ec'onomy measuring apparatus installed at the Long Beach Plant of the Southern California Edison Company, featured in this book, are extended through the courtesy of R. J C. Wood, superintendent of generation for the Southern Division of that company.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.