Fuel economy questions

✍ Scribed by Womersley, H.

• Publisher: Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
• Year: 1924
• Weight: 873 KB
• Volume: 43
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0368-4075
• DOI: 10.1002/jctb.5000432804

✦ Synopsis

By H. WOMERSLEY Owing to prcscnt cconoinic conditions, we arc nI1 thoroughly alivc to tlic ncccssity of fucl econoiny, and tlie aim of t.his short paper is to point out a fcm of t h qucstions tlint cmcrgc in regard to this problcm.

In tho first ~~l n c c , I would ciiiplinsisc tlie fnct t h t a stcani-boiler plaiit is a manufacturing dcpartaient. i n itself. Too oftcri docs o m fail to rcalisc thnt. it is conccrncd 1r.it.h raw inntcrial and finislicd product. Wc stnrt with conl or othcr fuel, and by its m c R n q we convcrt watcr into tlic product,, stcam. I n other worck WC buy hcnt, and nftcr conversion into a more usablc form, sell it ngnin to the otlicr depart.ineiits.

It stniids to rcnson, tlicrcforc, that to ninkc tlic plant n pyiiig coiiccrii, wc must hiow :--I. How much Iicnt IVC arc buying.

3. What our coiircrsioii losses nrc or, convcrscly, our cffcicncg of eonvcrsion. 3. Tlio amount of stcani Ialccn by dcpurtiiicnts. Now, the lieat wc piircllnsc is, of coursc, thc cnlorific valuo, wlictlier wc csprcss it ns l3.Th.U.s pcr lb., Cnlorics pcr lb., or Calorics pcr kg.