The efficient use of fuel : a text book on fuels and their efficient utilization for the use of students and technical men in industry.

  • Great Britain. Ministry of Power
Date:
1958
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    Propane in natural gas, 66 Specific gravity, App. A, 845 Proximate analysis of coal, 9, 15-18, 830 Psychrometric charts, 666, 690 Psychrometry, 366 Pulsating flow. Effect on metering, 244, 739 Pulverized fuel, Chap. 12, 273 Bin-and-feeder system, 274, 276 burners, 282 Cement industry, 292 Cenospheres, 183, 281 Central system, 274 Choice of systems, 276 combustion, 281] Heat release in, 288 Cyclone burner, 289 furnace, 293 Direct-fired system, 274 Dry-bottom furnaces, 289 Dust aspects, 289 furnaces, 471 Grindability of coal, 280 Grit aspects, 289 locomotives, 292 marine vessels, 292 . Metallurgical applications, 290-1 mills, 277-280 air-swept, 275, 277, 684 role of moisture, 274 pitch, (coal tar), 281 Plant used, 277 Radiation from flame, 183 re-heating furnaces, 526 Ring mains system, 276 Selection of fuel, 273 shell boilers, 290 Slag tap furnace, 289 storage, 274 Unit system, 274 Pumping hot feed water, 349 of liquids, (mechanics of flow), 194-6 Pumps: Boiler-feed, 345 Centrifugal, 347 Displacement, 346 PV=RT, (gas equation), 96, 666 Pyrometers, 731 Optical, 734 Suction, 710, 731 Thermo-electric, 729 Quartz, (silica), 601, see also Silica Queen Mary College, (London), 163 R/16 (Boiler Availability) Committee, 250, 341 Radiant heat, (in drying), 591, 663, 686 superheaters, 360 heating, 590 panels, (S.H.), 637 tube furnaces, 538 Radiation, Chap. 10, 172 Absorptivity, 172 Black body, 172, 467 in boilers. Importance, 324 from a coke fire, 176 Radiation—continued from CO, and water vapour, 177 Emissivity, (table), 175, seealsoEmissivity from furnace gases, 177 Heat losses due to, 123, 191-2, 694 Heat transfer by, 172 Inverse Square law, 174 Kirchoff’s law, 174 Lambert’s law, 174 losses from furnaces, 466 from luminous flame, 183 from re-entrant angles, 173 Stefan-Boltzmann law, 173 Effect of temperature, 175 Radiators, (S.H.), 635, 658 Railways, Coal for, (table), 43, 45 Ramsbottom (carbon residue) test, 838 Rank of coal, 23 practical aspects, 46, 285 Rankine Scale, (temperature), 704 Rayon, Drying of, 691 Re, see Reynolds’ Number Reciprocal thermal efficiency, (S.H.), 646 Re-circulation, in drying, 672 Partial, 673 Recuperators, 184, 460, 531 Metallic, 532 Reducing atmospheres, 138, 468 Reeves’ gas sampling apparatus, 822 Refractoriness-under-load, 605, (diagram), 606 in furnace structures, 483 Refractory materials, Chap. 23, 597; see also under individual names Composition, (table), 598 constitution, Theory of, 600 Expansion, 608 Allowance for, 630 Action of gases and vapours on, 619 Influence on fuel economy, 597 Action of iron compounds and slags on, 616-618 Manufacture of, 599 Mechanical properties, 615 Raw materials for, 599 Selection of, 627 Silica minerals, inter-transformation, 601 Texture, 607 Thermal properties, 608-615 Types of, 597 Refrigerants for heat pump, 645 Regenerators, 184, 461, 488, 492-3, 517, 532° Re-heating furnaces, coal-fired, 525 thermal efficiency of, 533 Mechanically-fired, 526 P.F.-fired, 526 Soaking pits, 535, 536 Reporting of analytical results, 15, 834 Resistor (electric) furnace, 580 Elements for, 581, 590 Heat balance, 594 Residual oils, 67 Resources, Fuel, 1, in Britain, 4 British and World Statistics. App. B, 848-9 Retort stoker, 256 (R.T.E),