Gas-engines and producer-gas plants; a practice treatise setting forth the principles of gas-engines and producer design, the selection and installation of an engine, conditions of perfect operation, producer-gas engines and their possibilities, the care of gas-engines and producer-gas plants, with a chapter on volatile hydrocarbon and oil engines (1905)
Mathot, Rodolphe Edgard, 1866- · New York N.W. Henley Pub. Co · leaf 181
hanical blowers have the advantage of 182 GAS-ENGINES AND PRODUCERS dispensing with the employment of steam under pres-sure and the consequent installation of a boiler (Fig.78). Driven by the engine itself or from some separatesource of power, these apparatus are easily placed inposition, require… … Fig. 81.—Root blower. of high efficiency, and of enabling comparatively highpressures—19 to 27 inches of water—to be attained,which, however, are used only for special fuels, suchas lignite, peat, and the like. The air supplied by theblower, before reaching the fire-box, is superheated,either…
Gas · Internal combustion engines
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