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 46
m. The system of balancing the engine by means of twofly-wheels, mounted on opposite sides, is used chieflyfor the purpose of equalizing the inertia effects. Spe-cial engines, employed for driving dynamos, and evenindustrial engines of high power, are preferably fittedwith but a single fly-wheel,… … 48 GAS-ENGINES AND PRODUCERS sh(3uld be mounted between the engine and the outerbearing. The following advantages may be cited infavor of the single fly-wheel, particularly in the case ofdynamo-driving engines: 1. The single fly-wheel permits a more ready accessto the parts to be examined. 2. It…
Gas · Internal combustion engines
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