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The mechanical engineering of power plants (1906)

Hutton, Frederick Remsen, 1853-1918 · New York, J. Wiley & sons; London, Chapman & Hall, limited · leaf 169

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ypes which havepreceded, the steam has entered the working cylinder frorr;.the boiler, and after doing its work, has been exhausted eitherinto the atmosphere or into a condenser. It has also beenshown that it is of advantage to use the steam in such a wayas to take advantage of the principle of… … Fig. 90. The lower limit of pressure upon the piston is imposed by the lowest temperature usual with condensing water (par. 45). If thus, with a fixed lower limit, the diagram of Fig. 90 116 SIMPLE AND COMPOUND ENGINES. IIJ oe constructed so as to have the initial volume of steamadmitted into the…

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