The Marine Steam Engine: A Treatise for the Use of Engineering Students and Officers of the Royal Navy |
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Page 23
... ships now building for the Royal Navy are being fitted with triple expansion engines . Figs . 8 , 9 , and 10 show the ... ship has to be performed at comparatively low powers . It is therefore desirable in EARLY HISTORY AND PROGRESS . 23.
... ships now building for the Royal Navy are being fitted with triple expansion engines . Figs . 8 , 9 , and 10 show the ... ship has to be performed at comparatively low powers . It is therefore desirable in EARLY HISTORY AND PROGRESS . 23.
Page 28
... ship ahead , expends some of the energy transmitted to it in agitating and churning the water in which it acts , and the work thus performed is wasted ; the only useful work being that employed in overcoming the resistance of the ship ...
... ship ahead , expends some of the energy transmitted to it in agitating and churning the water in which it acts , and the work thus performed is wasted ; the only useful work being that employed in overcoming the resistance of the ship ...
Page 57
... ship of war , must be very perfect and reliable ; for the engines of these ships have to work at such wide ranges of power , that the apparatus must necessarily be one in which the supply of fuel could be readily increased or decreased ...
... ship of war , must be very perfect and reliable ; for the engines of these ships have to work at such wide ranges of power , that the apparatus must necessarily be one in which the supply of fuel could be readily increased or decreased ...
Page 63
... ship do not appear to have been altogether satisfactory , as the more recent French ships have not been fitted on this system . The fourth plan , by which the stokeholds are made into airtight chambers and kept filled with compressed ...
... ship do not appear to have been altogether satisfactory , as the more recent French ships have not been fitted on this system . The fourth plan , by which the stokeholds are made into airtight chambers and kept filled with compressed ...
Page 66
... ship . To facilitate exit from the stokeholds in case of emer- gency , hinged doors which can be opened from the under side are fitted in the debris deck , and vertical ladders or rungs fitted to the bulkhead are carried from these ...
... ship . To facilitate exit from the stokeholds in case of emer- gency , hinged doors which can be opened from the under side are fitted in the debris deck , and vertical ladders or rungs fitted to the bulkhead are carried from these ...
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absolute pressure action air-pump angle arrangement atmosphere back pressure bilge blades brass cause centre coal cocks combustion compound engine connected crank crank-shaft curve diameter draught eccentric efficiency evaporation exhaust expansion valve Fahr feed feed-water feet fitted friction funnel furnaces gases gear gun-metal heating surface high-pressure cylinder hot-well hydrometer increased indicated horse-power indicator diagrams iron jacket Kingston valves latent heat length low-pressure cylinders machinery marine boilers marine engines metal motion necessary ordinary orifice paddle-wheel pass pipes piston plates port pounds per square pressure of steam prevent propeller pumps quantity rates of expansion reduced revolutions per minute Royal Navy safety-valves screw screw-propeller sea-water sensible heat shaft ship shown in Fig side slide slide-valve speed square inch steam pressure steam-pipes steel stokeholds stroke suction suitable superheated superheater surface condensers temperature thermal units total heat triple expansion engines tubes vertical weight
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Page 32 - ... the quantity of heat necessary to raise the temperature of one pound of water at its maximum density, one degree Fahr., can be made to perform work equal to the raising of 772 Ibs.