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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 554

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eend of the heating-surface of the boiler, and therefore a dis-tance equal to the depth of the smoke-box will lie behind thefire-door and between it and the end of the bars. This sup- BOILER-SE TTING. 517 plies furthermore a space such as is required in a method offiring which is called the coking… … Fig. 443. upon this dead-plate and not upon the grate-surface proper.The heat from the burning fuel on the grates distils off thegas and all volatile matter which passes backwards over thefire; but since there was no openings in the dead-plate,oxygen does not come up through the fresh coal to set…

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