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 58
Fig. 37.—Section through an engine of the vertical or steam-hammer type. MERITS OF VERTICAL ENGINES 59 can be directly coupled up with the crank-shaft oi theengine, thus dispensing with a belt, which, at the least, … ^ ^ fa absorbs 4 to 6 per cent, of the total power. It should,nevertheless, be borne in mind that the direct coupling 6o GAS-ENGINES AND PRODUCERS of electric generators to engine-shafts implies the useof extremely large and, therefore, of extremely costlydynamos. Furthermore, by reason of this…
Gas · Internal combustion engines
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