Twentieth century handbook for steam engineers and electricians, with questions and answers; a practical nontechnical treatise on the care and management of steam engines, boilers and electric machinery (1922)
Swingle, Calvin Franklin, 1846- [from old catalog] · Chicago, F. J. Drake & company · leaf 772
raft holes through the fuelbed. Too much poking from the top will pack the fire,and necessitate an increased vacuum. Too fine a fuel willproduce the same troubles, and any coal that fuses easilywill not do for this type of producer. Anthracite runninghigh in slate mixture tends to run high in… … Fig. 319monahan suction producer —10 pounds of coal per square foot of internal area—andrated on li/4 pounds of coal per horse power hour. 756 Steam Engineering It is not good practice to use a suction gas-producerplant of over 150 horse power when the engine has todraw the gas from the producer by…
