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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 491

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age, and therefore heat storage, with a given diameter ofshell for each cylinder, and without increasing ground-planarea. The smaller diameter of the cylinder makes it saferagainst rupture. Heating-surface is also increased. Theobjections to the type are the uncertainty of the circulationof… … TYPES OF BOILERS. 437 through the same necks down which must come the water toreplace the steam which has been made. Fig. 373, which isdrawn to show the circulation in a boiler with a steam-drumand two connections, will illustrate this point. A seconddifficulty is from the unequal expansion of the…

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