Notes On Boiler Testing

Author : Frederick Grover
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781332239160
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Notes on Boiler Testing (Classic Reprint) written by Frederick Grover and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Notes on Boiler Testing The following notes on the testing of steam boilers are intended to refer only to such tests as are necessary to examine the economic performances of the boiler, and not to the testing which must be done to ascertain its structural defects. Such tests are no doubt of equal importance as affecting the safety of the community at large, and are generally dealt with by the boiler insurance companies. As far as the purchaser of a boiler is concerned, the question of paramount importance is that it shall raise steam economically. He may be assured by the insurance company that his boiler is safe. Here, however, the responsibility of the company will cease, unless private arrangements are made at additional cost for systematic tests of the boiler under steam with a view to ascertaining its steam-raising qualities. It is to this equally important side of the question that the author desires to draw the attention of large steam users, feeling, as he does, that the subject is not recognised by them as deeply affecting the profits of their industrial concerns. One has only to seek information amongst those who have set themselves to reduce their expenditure in fuel, to learn how much may be done in this direction. Sometimes improvements may be carried out at very small cost. In some instances the writer has been able to effect an economy of 10 per cent of the heat by the mere regulation of the air passing through the flues. Such a process is not costly. To leave the state of the fires to the care of the fireman is likely to lead to serious losses, his only object being to maintain a constant steam pressure and water level. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.