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The mechanical engineering of power plants (1897)

Hutton, Frederick Remsen, 1853- [from old catalog] · New York, J. Wiley & sons; [etc., etc.] · leaf 463

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ause. Thedome which appears on most shell boilers is an upright cylin-der of boiler-plate of some considerable diameter, up to twothirds that of the shell and so attached to it as to form partof the steam-space or an addition to it. In horizontal boilersit will have its axis at right angles to that… … Fig. 362. dome in the type form to the full diameter of the dome.The steam-outlet will be a pipe passing from the top of thedome or near it. It will be apparent that the dome accomplishes three pur-poses: (i) It removes the inlet to the steam-pipe farther fromthe disengagement-area than it could be…

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