Twentieth century handbook for steam engineers and electricians, with questions and answers; a practical nontechnical treatise .. (1916)
Swingle, Calvin F. (Calvin Franklin), b. 1846 · Chicago, F.J. Drake & company · leaf 366
53 large number of brass or copper tubes of small diameter,through which cold water is forced by a pump, called acirculating pump. A vacuum is also maintained in thebody of the condenser by the air pump, and the steamexhausting into this is condensed by coming in contactwith the cool surface of the… … Fig. Ill CROSS COMPOUND DIRECT CONNECTED CORLISS ENGINE, ALLIS-CHALMERS COMPANY being maintained in the tubes. Owing to the fact that ina surface condenser the steam does not mix with the water,a larger quantity of condensing water is required than ina jet condenser, but on the other hand, an…
