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 25
lve, exposed as it is to high tempera-tures, will suffer derangement and may cause leakage.The water-jacket should, therefore, surround the seatof the exhaust-valve, care being taken that the coolingwater be admitted as near to it as possible (Fig. 8).The motor should control the air-let valve or… … Fig. 8.—Watcr-iackotcd valve The mixture of gas and air should not be admittedinto the cylinder at too low a pressure; otherwise theweight of the mixture admitted would be lower than it REQUISITES OF VALVES 27 ought to be, inasmuch as under these C(jnditions thevalve will be opened too tardily and…
Gas · Internal combustion engines
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