Boilers Of Steam Engines Research Articles

TO THE QUESTION OF THE REASONS OF THE FUEL CRISIS IN THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE AT THE BEGINNING OF THE 20th CENTURY

The study of problems related to the modernization of the oil industry at the end of the 19th - beginning of the 20th centuries allows asserting that the rapid technical re-equipment of oil refineries was due to the targeted state scientific and technical policy that was being implemented at that time, as well as to the highly effective system of privileges (patents) and mass promotion of technical knowledge and achievements. Besides, the role of entrepreneurs that supported individual inventors and research companies providing "brain gain" and investment in Russia was also significant. This contributed to the rapid introduction of technical innovations in production. Thus, the transition to extensive use of oil as industrial fuel contributed to a more intensive development of the factory industry. Modernization of the oil industry became a powerful incentive and, at the same time, a part of Russian industrialization. One of the most successful and quickly implemented innovations that were at the same time crucial for the changing nature of the Russian energy sector and the economy in general was the invention of "Nobel burner". It seemed that this solved the problem of oil residues. However, it proved to be extremely uneconomical to burn large amounts of oil fuel under the boilers of steam engines. Thus, "oil" energetics formed. The "oil imbalance" resulted in the suppression of the coal industry of the country. At the same time identifying the causes of the fuel crisis as one of the most important factors that led to the collapse of the Russian Empire allowed us to formulate a conclusion that the decline in oil production and increased demand for fuel oil in the First World War by the military and metallurgical industries, railways, the shortage of fuel and rising prices led to the disorganization of the whole economy, disruptions in the supply of food, raw materials and weapons.

Electrostatic charging by condensation

The phenomenon noticed by Mr P.J. Soilleux (Physics Bulletin May 1969 p. 201) has indeed been observed before; as early as 1840 in fact when W.G. Armstrong (later Lord Armstrong of engineering fame, but at that time a practising Newcastle solicitor) reported in Philosophical Magazine that electricity was generated when steam leaked from safety valve of a steam engine boiler. Faraday (1843b) subsequently investigated phenomenon in characteristic detail and correctly explained that the electricity is due entirely to friction of particles of water which steam carried forward against surrounding solid matter; further experiments in which a jet of moist air was blown across a block of ice also demonstrated generation of electricity, again with water droplets as charge carriers.

Water Softening and Treatment

THE primary object of this book is the softening of hard raer for use in steam boilers and for manufacturing purposes, but, in fact, it deals largely with other matters relating to the supply of water to the boilers of steam engines. Thus it is divided into five sections, the first only of which relates to the treatment of water by softening, together with the separation of oil and filtration, and occupies about half the book; whereas the four other sections, constituting the second half of the book, consist of “Section II., Air Pumps, Condensers, and Circulating Pumps”; “Section III., Feed Heating and Stage Heating ”; “Section IV., Water Cooling ”; and “Section V., Feed Pumps and Injectors.” Accordingly, the volume ranges, over the whole subject of the treatment of water supplied to steam boilers, though dealing more expressly with the all-important point of securing, so far as practicable, the purity of the water employed for raising steam.

On an Improved Safety Valve for Steam Engine Boilers

On an Improved Safety Valve for Steam Engine Boilers

Description of an Improved Steam-Engine Boiler

Description of an Improved Steam-Engine Boiler

On the incrustation which forms in the boilers of steam engines, in a letter addressed to Dr. G. Wilson, F.R.S.E.

On the incrustation which forms in the boilers of steam engines, in a letter addressed to Dr. G. Wilson, F.R.S.E.

On the application of anthracite coal to the blast furnace, steam engine boiler, and Smith's fire, at the Gwendraeth ironworks near Carmarthen

On the application of anthracite coal to the blast furnace, steam engine boiler, and Smith's fire, at the Gwendraeth ironworks near Carmarthen

On the Boilers of Steam Engines, and the Construction of Engine Chimneys

Mr. Hartop next made a communication “On the boilers of steam engines and the construction of engine chimneys.” He said: On presenting myself before a meeting at Leeds, (where the steam-engine is so well understood,) to make observations on steam engine boilers, I feel some apology to be due from me, bat I trust that, however trifling the advantage pointed out may be, its application in so wide a field as is here presented will amply repay any attention given to it. I need not go further back than the introduction of the waggon boiler by the late Mr. Watt, which, from its excellent arrangement, was the standard boiler for so many years, during which time a very general opinion prevailed amongst practical men that, whenever the length of the boiler exceeded four times that of its grate (say 25 feet), such additional length was useless, as to the quantity of steam produced, although a considerable degree of heat always passed away up the chimney. The cause of this I conceive to be that the heated air in these flues passes last, and therefore when at its coolest, through the side flues, by which it is brought in contact with the water near the surface in the boiler, and therefore at that point where it was the hottest; in consequence of which the boiler, if made very long, might re-impart a portion of its heat to the air in the flues before it passed to the chimney. This point will, ...

Further observations for the consideration of the members composing the Committee on the explosion of steam engine boilers, of the Franklin Institute

Further observations for the consideration of the members composing the Committee on the explosion of steam engine boilers, of the Franklin Institute

On the structure and management of steam engine boilers

On the structure and management of steam engine boilers

Remarks on the frequent explosions of steam engine boilers in the United States, and on the construction and operation of two boilers now in use

Remarks on the frequent explosions of steam engine boilers in the United States, and on the construction and operation of two boilers now in use

On the explosions of boilers of steam engines

On the explosions of boilers of steam engines

Description of a steam-engine boiler, adapted to the use of anthracite, or bituminous coul, and particularly applicable to the locomotive-engine

Description of a steam-engine boiler, adapted to the use of anthracite, or bituminous coul, and particularly applicable to the locomotive-engine

Facts, and observations, on the bursting of the boilers of steam engines

Facts, and observations, on the bursting of the boilers of steam engines

LXII. Abstract of an essay by M. Girard “On the resistance of cast-iron in relation to its use for conduit pipes and the boilers of steam-engines.” Communicated by Mr. Thomas Tredgold

LXII. <i>Abstract of an essay by</i> M. G<scp>irard</scp> “<i>On the resistance of cast-iron in relation to its use for conduit pipes and the boilers of steam-engines</i>.” <i>Communicated by Mr.</i> T<scp>homas</scp> T<scp>redgold</scp>

XXV. Description of a new safety-piston for Papin's digester, with the application of it to the boilers of steam-engines, and also of an apparatus for regulating the heat of furnaces

XXV. <i>Description of a new safety-piston for Papin's digester, with the application of it to the boilers of steam-engines, and also of an apparatus for regulating the heat of furnaces</i>