The steam engine and turbine; a text-book for engineering colleges (1911)
Heck, Robert Culbertson Hays, 1870- · New York, D. Van Nostrand company · leaf 164
der indefinitely, alternately ex-panding and contracting as the pressure changes. We can even imaginethe latter body of steam to be separated from the working steam by asort of light diaphragm, which will move back and forth in the cylinderlike a loose auxiliary piston. When compression begins, at… … Kinetic Losses of Work Effect. (i) Filling the Clearance Space. — The raising of the pressurefrom F to A, Fig. 73 or Fig. 74, takes place while the valve is open buta very little way. The live steam, flowing through this narrow open-ing into a space where the pressure is lower, undergoes a…
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