Modern Steam Engineering in Theory and Practice: A New, Complete, and Practical Work for Steam-users, Electricians, Firemen, and Engineers ... Over Two Hundred Questions, with Their Answers, Likely to be Asked by the Examining Boards are Given, as Well as Forty Tables of the Properties of Steam for Power and Other Uses

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N.W. Henley Publishing Company, 1907 - 487 páginas
 

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Página 207 - The horse power of a steam engine is given by the equation , plan = ~ where p = mean effective pressure in pounds per square inch, l = length of stroke in feet, a = area of piston in square inches, n = number of strokes per minute, or twice the number of revolutions per minute.
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Página 198 - Fig. 15, the piston is at the end of its return stroke, and the clearance is the volume of the space between the piston and the left cylinder head plus the volume of the left steam port. In other words, the clearance may be...

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