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 29
heaper construction. The total consumption 30 GAS-ENGINES AND PRODUCERS is of less moment in a motor of small than of greatpower, and the loss due to the lack of an ignition-valvenot so marked. In a high-power engine, premature ex-plosion may be the cause of the breaking of a vitalpart, such as the… … Fig. II.—Ignition-tube with valve. comparatively stout. The gas consumption of a well-designed burner does not exceed from 3.5 to ^ cubicfeet per hour. Electric Ignition.^—Electric ignition consists in pro-ducing a spark in the explosion-chamber of the engine.The nicety wMth which it can be…
Gas · Internal combustion engines
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