Memorandum by Chief Engineer for the Year 1905 (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Excerpt from Memorandum by Chief Engineer for the Year 1905

It will be seen that the heat utilised in the production of steam, ex elusive of that required for the blowers, amounted to 36 per cent., which must be considered a high duty when the heat lost with the clinker drawn from the furnaces amounted to 20 per cent. With ordinary fuel, containing only a few per cent. Of mineral matter, this loss would be about 2 to 3 per cent. The heat carried up the chimney was 19-3 per cent. This does not appear excessive when one remembers that the waste gases carried with them a very heavy percentage of superheated steam.

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