Stationary steam engines, simple and compound; especially as adapted to light and power plants (1899)
Thurston, Robert Henry, 1839-1903 · New York, J. Wiley & Sons; [etc., etc.] · leaf 174
to its load.It is seen that the compression, as well as the expansion,gradually changes in amount as the power varies, both act-ing to reduce the area of the diagram with diminishing ELECTRIC LIGHTING PLANTS. 153 power, or to increase it as the required power becomesgreater. A very interesting… … Indicator Diagram.^Ide Engine. and relative amount. In some cases, the economy obtain-ed, with considerable expansion, by the introduction oflarge compression, has amounted to above 10 per cent.Where superheating is adopted, this gain is less; but in theusual case, using saturated steam, the use of…
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