Van Nostrand's eclectic engineering magazine (1869)
[New York : D. Van Nostrand] · leaf 42
omplete when it is so great that the final that is, ^=1, then, since T2=212° F.-f- presssure of the steam is that of the con- 461°=C73° F. denser (or atmosphere); when this is not the case, the condition of maximum U-U. 772><6730O^-7^) efficiency, that the steam should reject heat at a constant… … wards rises to 10 per cent. If the feed- evils greater than the advantage gained. water be at a lower temperature than the Iu practice, a different ratio of expansion, tondensing steam, the effect is of course r, must be employed, and the loss so aris- greater still. ing may be thus estimated: —…
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