Condensation in steam cylinders

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• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1878
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 51 KB
• Volume: 105
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/0016-0032(78)90472-6

✦ Synopsis

Condensation in Steam C~jlinders. 69 Condensation in Steam Cylinders.--In the Ann. de8 Mines, Pt. 8, for 1877, M. Ch. Ledoux discusses the condensation of vapor in the cylinders of steam engines. He claims that his method gives a sufficient practical approximation for each of the following estimates:

1. The weight of the mixture of steam and water furnished by the boiler at each stroke of the piston, the proportion of water carried over by the steam being known.

2. The proportion of suspended water, when the total weight of feed-water is known.

3. The consumption, in calories, for a given amount of work, or the true industrial measure of the utilization of steam.

4. In a locomotive, the quantity of water vaporized by the boiler during a given time, and the resulting power of traction at a given velocity.

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