Thermodynamics of the steam-engine and other heat-engines (1907)
Peabody, Cecil H. (Cecil Hobart), 1855-1934 · New York, J. Wiley & sons; [etc., etc.] · leaf 406
e, and hascertain advantages for this purpose, especially on shipboard.The air from the storage-room comes to the compressor at orabout freezing-point, is compressed to two or three atmospheresand delivered to the cooler, which has the same form as a sur-face-condenser, with cooHng water entering… … Fig. 86- in which it is expanded nearly to the pressure of the air andcooled to a low temperature, and then delivered to the storage-room. The inlet-valves a, a and the delivery-valves b, b ofthe compressor are moved by the air itself; the ad mission-valvesCy c and the exhaust-valves d, d of the…
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