The cheapest point of cut-off

✍ Scribed by William Dennis Marks

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1883
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 511 KB
• Volume: 116
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/0016-0032(83)90219-3

✦ Synopsis

Let ([-P~ -----the desired horse-power of the engine. Let P ~ the mean effective pressure of steam in cylinder in pounds per square inch.

Let Pb ---~ the absolute initial pressure Of steam in pounds per square inch.

Let B ~ the absolute back pressure of steam in pounds per square inch~ exhaust open. Let e ~ the fraction of the volume at which steam is cut off. C ~ the constant charges on engine and boilers in dollars and Let cents. Let period Let closes which Let 9,nc~.