 ... further consideration of this plan was abandoned. 8 The gas engine, while offering the highest thermo-dynamic efficiency at the same time required an investment of at least 35 per cent more than an ordinary steam-turbine plant with a probable maintenance...  Heat and Thermodynamics - Page 325by Francis M. Hartmann - 1911 - 346 pagesFull view - About this book
 | American Institute of Electrical Engineers - 1910 - 964 pages
...with a probable maintenance and operation account of from four to ten times that of the steam turbine. The reciprocating-engine unit of the same type as...small range of economical operation. Reference to Fig. 1, Series A will show that the economic limits of operation are between 3300 kw. and 6300 kw. ; beyond... | |
 | Francis M. Hartmann - 1911 - 366 pages
...a double transmission line from the nearest available water power, and the impossibility of gett ng reliable service (that is, service having a maximum...operation are between 3300 kw. and 6300 kw.; beyond these .imits the water rate rises so rapidly as to make operation undesirable under this condition, except... | |
 | American Society of Mechanical Engineers - 1911 - 2438 pages
...ordinary steam-turbine plant, with a probable maintenance and operation account of from four -to ten tunes that of the steam turbine. 9 The reciprocating-engine...small range of economical operation. Reference to Fig. 5, Series A, will show that the economic limits of operation are between 3300 kw. and 6300 kw. ; beyond... | |
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