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 640
e. Producer gas is available wherever there is a supply of an-thracite or bituminous coal, and presents the proper factor for com-paring the operating costs of this type of equipment with thoseof tlfe steam engine. Thermal Efficiency is high in gas engines of all sizes, whereas itis not high in a… … 0 20Fig. 2. Heat economy of turbines and gas engines. 40 60 80 100 120Per Cent of Foil Load Cost of Installation. Edwin D. Dreyfus, from whose excellentpaper in Power for January 31, 1911, we have taken three illustra-tions under this caption, places the composite cost of the gas plantabout 30%…
