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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 584

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settings, and inmany cases of full front settings, the gases pass directlythrough an opening into a metallic flue which carries theproducts of combustion to the chimney and so to waste. Ifthere are several boilers side by side or in a battery, short BOILER-SE TTING. 547 lengths of flue from each… … When the chimney is at the back of the setting a cus-tomary arrangement has been to carry the gases to the rearin a flue formed by springing an arch over the top of theboiler from side wall to side wall. The tie-rods and buck-stays withstand the thrust of this arch, and from the space 54S…

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