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IN the management of the boiler-house of power Stations, great improvements have been made in recent years, with a consequent increase in the over-all efficiency of generation. All the coal used is now weighed with high accuracy. The temperature of the furnaces and of the flue gases is recorded and chemical analyses of the products of combustion are continually being made. The results are recorded, tabulated, and suitably analysed. The staff are always striving to improve their methods and are always ready to consider the possibilities of new inventions and of new fuels. Six years ago, the ratio of the heat equivalent of the kilowatts generated to the heat equivalent of the fuel consumed was commonly only about 10 per cent. To-day, thanks to scientific investigations, there are power stations in various places with a thermal efficiency of more than 18 per cent. Most of the improvement is due to increased efficiency in the boiler-house. The author asks the reader to look on this book as addressed to power station operating engineers, and states that it is not a highly technical treatise but a general talk on the salient factors influencing efficient operation. We can recommend the book to both students and engineers, as it gives a good introduction to many problems which engineers are successfully solving.
Power Station Efficiency Control: a Treatise for the Power Station Engineer on Boiler-Room Efficiency, Turbine-Room Efficiency, Heat Balance Control, Methods of Recording and Tabulating Operating Results and Keeping a Day to Day Check on Operating Efficiency.
John
Bruce
By. With an Appendix by R. H. Parsons. Pp. xiii + 244. (London: Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons, Ltd., 1924.) 12s. 6d. net.
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Power Station Efficiency Control: a Treatise for the Power Station Engineer on Boiler-Room Efficiency, Turbine-Room Efficiency, Heat Balance Control, Methods of Recording and Tabulating Operating Results and Keeping a Day to Day Check on Operating Efficiency. Nature 114, 571 (1924). https://doi.org/10.1038/114571a0
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