Garbage used as fuel in 1250 KW. electric plant : Power Plant Engineering, Vol. XLI, No. 2
✍ Scribed by R.H.O.
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1937
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 63 KB
- Volume
- 223
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0016-0032
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✦ Synopsis
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CURRENT Torlcs.
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needed but not necessarily together, for' hydrogen can be used with air or mixed with some liquid fuel. When, however the two gases in their pure form are used, an expanding medium, such as steam from the exhaust must be introduced into the cylinder, for hydrogen and oxygen in the proportion of two to one occupy more space than the water vapor that is the result of the explosion. Operating thusly, the engine exhibits a unique characteristic. It is entirely independent of the atmosphere around it and if the steam coming from the cylinders is condensed, does not exhaust into the air. Such qualities immediately suggest its use where air is precious.
It may be possible that the single engine submarine can be driven, while on the surface, by a Diesel engine which can be quickly converted, when submerging, into a hydrogen-oxygen engine.
Additional auxiliaries of course are necessary such as electric ignition etc. The gases are stored separately in cylinders which take up about half the space and less than half the weight of the displaced storage batteries. When the craft submerges, the gases are led to the engine at, or slightly above, atmospheric pressure, burned, and the products of combustion (water vapor) condensed and sent back to the electrolyzers. R. H. O.