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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    Melting furnaces, 420-426, 447 Multiple effect evaporation, 587-594 Multitubular boilers, externally fired, 284 NUSSELT number, 129 O1L fuel : Burner operation, 706, 707 Burners, 702 Combustion, 703—707 Fuel oils, 699, 700 Preheating, 701 Properties and testing, 699, 707, 708 Storage, 700 Transmission of, 198, 199, 701 _ Use in dryers, 656, 657 Use in furnaces, 405 Use in glass industry, 454 Open cast (outcrop) coal : Composition, 47 Storage, 47 Open hearth furnaces : Description, 424 Fuel saving, 425, 426 Heat balance, 422, 423 Heat flow diagram, 716 Orifice plates for measurement of fluid flow, 179, 205-210 Orsat apparatus, 720—723 Overfeed firing : combustion, 92 PANEL heating, 609 “ Peak steam loads, 594-603 Peat, 5 Petroleum : Composition, 696 Cracking, 698 Refining and cracking, 697 Pilot tube, 181 Poiseuille’s Equation, 173, 174 Pole’s formula, 178 Preheaters, air, 312 Pressurestats, 693 Producer gas : Analysis of, 370 Composition, 29, 30, 361, 362 Furnace heating, 374 Impurities, 359, 371 Limitations, 30, 356, 358 Manufacture, 29, 355-370 Purification, 371 Selection for industrial purposes, 786 Transmission of, 178, 198, 373 Use in glass industry, 454 Utilisation, 372-375 Producers—see Gas producers, Pulverised fuel, 251-272 Applications, 259 Bim and feeder system, 251-255 Burners, 257 Cement industry, 260, 717 Fineness, 254 Furnace design, 262 Metallurgical applications, 260 Practice, 257 Pulverisation, 252-255 Ring main system, 256 Pulverised fuel—continued. Storage, 263 Unit system, 255 Use in boilers, 259, 263-272 Use in furnaces, 404, 462 Pulverisers, 252, 254 Pumps : Boiler feed, 315 Design, 315 Centrifugal, 316 Hot feed, 317-320 Maintenance, 520 Pyrometers, 732-736 RADIATION, 120, 189-151, 401, 419. See also Heat transfer. . Radiators for central heating, 607-609, 611, 613, 614, 615 Rake, 235 Records, need for keeping, 403 Recuperators, 151, 152, 392-396, 467 Refractory materials : Chrome, 517, 521, 524 Composition, 515, 516, 517-521 Cristobalite, 519, 520 Dolomite, 517, 521 Expansion, 526-529 Firebrick, 517, 523 Furnace construction, 548, 549, 551 Influence on fuel economy, 515 Insulating refractories, 538, 542-545 Inversions of silica, 519, 520 Jointing cements; 537-538 Magnesite, 517, 521, 524 Manufacture, 516, 518 Mechanical properties, 532, 533 Quartz, 519, 520 Refractoriness, 521-524 Selection, 539-540 Silica brick, 517, 523 Sillimanite, 517, 521, 524 Slagging, 534,°637 Spalling, 533, 534 Specific gravity, 525 Testing, 539-540 _ Texture, 524 Thermal properties, 528, 530-532, 533 Tridymite, 519, 520 Regenerators : Air infiltration, 492 Description, 153 Distribution of gases, 455 Purpose of, 392, 468, 486, 497 Temperature control, 457 Reheating furnaces, 459-471 Batch, 463, 464 Coal fired, 460-463 Continuous, 465, 406 Efficiency, 468-470 Gas fired, 463 Heat recovery, 467, 468 Oil fired, 463 Pulverised fuel, 462 Resistance furnaces—see naces. Reynolds’ number, 173, 175, 181, 184 Riddlings, 248 Electric fur-