Power Requirements And Costs For High Capacity Cotton Gins

Author : Charles Archibald Wilmot
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780331404227
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Power Requirements and Costs for High-Capacity Cotton Gins (Classic Reprint) written by Charles Archibald Wilmot and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-19 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Power Requirements and Costs for High-Capacity Cotton Gins In 19a5, the average connected horsepower was 185 for California gins and 159 for west Texas gins During succeeding years, more complex unloading systems, additional drying and seed-cotton cleaning equipment, larger feeders an gin stands, and from one to three stages of lint cleaning were gradually incorpo rated in the normal ginning complement. Line and jack-shaft drives, powered by one or two internal combustion engines or electric motors were gradually re placed by individual electric drives to each piece of equipment. By 1962, total connected loads ranged as high as 857 horsepower in California and 699 in west Texas, and averaged 677 horsepower and horsepower, respectively, for the two areas Since 1962, the horsepower buildup in cotton ginning has continued, with connected loads ranging as high as horsepower in single-battery gin plants now being erected. Although continual increases in total connected horsepower require larger outlays of capital for purchasing electric motors, another major concern of gin ners has been the corresponding rise in costs for electrical energy. At given levels of energy consumption, rate structures in most utility schedules favor plants with smaller connected loads and lower kilowatts of demand. Consequently substantial increases in connected horsepower and in kilowatt-demand loads ac companied by less than proportionate increases in ginning rates have resulted in higher power costs per bale. Unless this imbalance can be corrected, power cost per bale are likely to continue to rise as gins become larger. 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.