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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 662

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CES. 603 economy does not result from this cause. It derives itsadvantage from delivering warmed water without a preheatingappliance or feed-water heater. 320. The Economy of Preheating the Feed-water.—It has already been discussed in Chapter XXVI that thefunction of the coal is to heat the water… … Fig. 490. to be burned under the boiler. The calculation of the gainfrom preheating is not difficult (see notes). Two great typesof feed-water heaters are to be met. The first are those inwhich the feed-water extracts from the steam rejected fromthe cylinder some of the heat which would otherwise…

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