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The thermodynamics of heat-engines (1903)

Reeve, Sidney A. (Sidney Armor), 1866-1941 · New York, London, The Macmillan Company · leaf 312

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pportunity for expansion presentduring the lighter loads. As these diagrams are typical representatives of the best THE OTTO GAS-ENGINE 29S practice of the day with large engines, it is proper to usethem as a text for a discussion of the possibilities for furtherprogress, as revealed by… … Rated Load.FIG. 51 standard. It is one of the marked distinctions betweensteam-engine and gas-engine practice that, whereas insteam-engines (except in the almost obsolete throttle-governed type) the maximum efficiency is found at orslightly below rated load, decreasing as the load eitherincreases…

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