Presentation of the perkin medal to Mr. John Wesley Hyatt

• Publisher: Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
• Year: 1914
• Weight: 149 KB
• Volume: 33
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0368-4075
• DOI: 10.1002/jctb.5000330606

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YR. JOHN WESLEY HYATT. [March 8 1 . ~~1 1 .

.to .sk the author tho avcrago c a t of t.hat power 88 com-.pared with thoeo ho had dealt with in tho papr.

us-fircd boilers, ho lied niado a teat on .a big sc30. a d hc thought tho chief troublo would bo tho .difficulty of producing a gns frcc from dust. That wns onc .of tho grcat drawbacks in gas engines, nnd would protinbly ,bo a groat drawback in connection with thc gas-fired :boiler.

Mr. E. ARDEBN considercd that conl contracts shou'd ;bo bnscd on actunl coniposition. Very fcw works Inboratorim had tho necessary instruments to dctcrniino thc .calorific vnho of coal, and he asked liow for the estimntcs .of tho thcrninl valuo na dctcrniincd froiii ccrtnin cquations b d on tho ash valuo and tlio rolntilcs, ctc., wcro in . a p m c n t . or liow far thcy varied, from estiniutcs dctcrniined by total combustion of tho conl.

Jlr. TenLEsKI rcplied that tho difficulty coirlcl ensily bu .ovorconic by following tlio cxnm lo of the wool niuiiufncturcrs in Brnclford. and cstn~lisliing n "Con1 onditioning lioiiso " wlicm t a t s could bo mndc. )lo noticed. too, that Boiler lnsurnnco Conipnnics w r o willing t o .carry out conl nnnlpscs for their clicnts. Jlr. J. BADDILBP suggcstcd it might bc profitnblc to