The efficient use of fuel : A text-book on fuels and their efficient utilisation for the use of students and technical men in industry / Prepared under the direction of the Education subcommittee of the Fuel efficiency committee of the Ministry of fuel and power.

  • Great Britain. Ministry of Fuel and Power. Fuel Efficiency Committee.
Date:
1944
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Credit: The efficient use of fuel : A text-book on fuels and their efficient utilisation for the use of students and technical men in industry / Prepared under the direction of the Education subcommittee of the Fuel efficiency committee of the Ministry of fuel and power. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Gourley and Crimp’s Formula, 225 Governors, gas, 673 Graphical heat balances : Construction, 710-717 Principles, 709; 710 Utilisation of heat, 717, 718 Gray-King Assay, 5 Grit emission, 240, 247 HAND-FIRING methods, 233-237, 620 Heat: definition of units, 60 Heat balances : Boilers, 341-349, 351, 712 Cement kilns, 714 Continuous vertical gas retorts, 713 Furnaces, 403, 416 Glass tank, 715 Graphical, 709-719 Open hearth steel furnace, 716 Heat drop, 108, 789 Heat exchangers, 151 Heat-flow gauges, 742 467, 480 Heat losses, 64, 85, 154, 417, 741 Heat transfer : Boilers, 160—163 Coke fire, radiation from, 143 Condensing vapours, 137 Conduction, 119, 122-127 126 Conduction through pipe walls, 127 Conductivities, table of, 123 Convection, 119, 128-139, 169 Convection in liquids, 136 Cornish and Lancashire boilers, 283 Economisers, 164 Emissivity, 139, 141 Emissivity of CO2, 145 Emissivity of water vapour, 146 Forced convection, 132-135 From superheated steam, 135 Furnaces, 383-389, 466, 467, 480-485 Gas radiation, 144-151 Heat flow in pipes, 128 Losses, 154-160 From surfaces, 155 Through furnace wall, 157 Luminous flames, radiation from, 150 Methods of heat transfer, 119 Modes of heat transfer in furnaces, 151 Natural convection, 130 Radiation, 120, 139-151 Radiation, laws of, 1389-142 Smoke-and water-tube boilers, 277 Through boiler plate, 120 Transmittance, 124 Vertical crosstube boilers, 276 Heat treatment furnaces, 471-480 Conveyor furnaces, 475-477 High temperature furnaces, 478 Lead pots, 477 Salt baths, 477 Temperature distrinaeons 473-475 Top hat furnaces, 477 Use and design, 472 Hot-face insulation, 397-401, 542-545 Hot water : . Heating by—see Space heating, Lagging pipes, etc., 547 Supply, 626 Hydrogen : Effect on C.V., 71, 72 Effect on flame, 74, 375 Effect on flame speed, 74 Flame temperature, 76 IGNITION limits, 73 Ignition temperature, 73 Induction furnaces—see Electric furnaces. Instruments, 230, 403, 420, 425, 426, 470, 472, 647, 719-746 Insulating materials, 540-548 Building methods for furnace insulation, 550, 551 Classification, 541 Effect of insulating firebricks, 543, 544,545 Effect of lagging, 547 Insulating firebricks, 542-545 Lagging, 545 Method of application of lagging, 545, 546, 547 Properties, 542, 543, 546 Selection, 540-548 Thermal conductivity, 542 Insulation Furnaces, 396-401 Hot face, 399, 400, 542-545 KILNS, 435-447 Belgian, 435, 440, 441, 442, 445 Dressler, 439 Firing, 442-445 Fuel efficiency, 446 Fuels used, 441 Hoffmann, 440, 441, 445 brite 439 Types, 436-441 Wilkinson, 438 Woodall-Duckham, 440 Kirchofé’s law, 140 LacEy’s Formula, 178 Lagging, 545 Lagging materials, 541, 546 Lambert’s law, 140 ‘ Lancashire boilers, 281, 282 Latent heat of flue gases, 63 Latent heat of steam : Definition, 106 Re-use in process work, 584-594 Utilisation in process work, 556 Lead pots, 477 Lehrs, glass, 449, 452, 453 Lessing test, 5 Lignite, 6 Lime-soda process for feed water treatment, 328 . Locomotive boilers, stationary, 279, 280, 282 MEASUREMENT, 202-228 Examples, 226-228 Gases, liquids, steam, 204-224 Solid fuels, 202 Water, 224