Steam Raising From Waste Material
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- Title
- Steam Raising From Waste Material
- Publication year listed
- 1919
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- Public domain eBook
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Steam Raising From Waste Material
Author: Douglas Wilson A.M.I.Mech.E.
Year: 1919
If information relating to the design and construction of plant for utilizing the heat obtained by the burning of towns’ and other refuse is wanted by the Engineer or Architect, very little, if any, will be found in the various text books to assist him. Several books have been written on refuse destruction, but the all important points referring to detail of construction, mode of calculating size of plant, etc., are scanty, and often missing altogether. ' The design of an efficient Steam-Raising Destructor Installation calls for technical and practical experience, as well as a wide knowledge of present methods of working, and of the relative efficiencies of the different types of these plants. Combustion engineering is a speciality, and it is astonishing from my experience how few engineers really are interested in refuse. Perhaps to some of them the destructor is a sort of firebrick stove connected to a chimney! Any old thing will do for rubbish. Some users build them to their own design, the results too often being dismal failures. Then it is that they fly to the Destructor Engineer. However, I am glad to say these instances are in the minority. Modern utilization of the heat fro