The steam engine and turbine; a text-book for engineering colleges (1911)
Heck, Robert Culbertson Hays, 1870- · New York, D. Van Nostrand company · leaf 124
of heat which the steam receives from thecylinder as the pressure is lowered, the expansion curve usually approxi-mates quite fairly to the curve pv = C — this fact being wholly a matterof experience, not deducible by a priori reasoning. Of course, the exactform of the curve varies considerably… … 1 Fig. 57. — The Steam-engine Cycle, in Comparison with the Rankdne Cycle.See § 15 (e) and Example 16. (/) The Ideal Steam Diagram. — In Fig. 57, the effective initialvolume AB is determined, from the full volume AM, by the percentageor fraction of initial condensation, for which ratio AM is the…
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