Appletons' cyclopaedia of applied mechanics: a dictionary of mechanical engineering and the mechanical arts (1880)
D. Appleton and Company, Benjamin, Park, 1849-1922 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 842
descent carbon is changed to carbonic oxide. The gases passing to the furnace consist chiefly ofcarbonic oxide 25 per cent,, hydrocarbons 10 per cent., and nitrogen 60 per cent. The producer andgas-flue should contain a slight excess of pressure over the atmosphere to prevent the inflow of… … accomplishes this result. Another means of producing such a plenum is the sheet-iron cooling tube,in which the gas from the stack falls toward the furnace, and is thereby cooled from 300° or 400°down to 200° or 250°, thus gaining 15 to 20 per cent, in weight, which urges it forward to the…
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