Handbook of mechanical and electrical cost data, giving shipping weights, capacities, outputs, and net prices of machines and apparatus, and detailed costs of installation, maintenance, depreciation and operation, together with many principles and data relating to engineering economics (1918)
Gillette, Halbert Powers, 1869-, Dana, Richard Turner, 1876-1928, joint author · New York, McGraw-Hill · leaf 508
that the cost for a unit of power for a given iJeriod oftime would be within these limits. An engine salesman blandly informs the prospective purchaserthat he can furnish an engine which will generate 1 h.p., meaningindicated h.p., using only 16 lbs. of steam per hi., and that withreasonably… … 10 40 50 60 ro Percent of time-100% of ^irncirear of 6760 Hours Fig. 43. Effect of storage and auxiliary power. of coal, per hr. per h.p. The latter had considered the mechanicallosses in the engine, the losses in the auxiliarie.s, the generatorlosses, the wiring losses and the motor losses,…
