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FILE NAME: Power Generation (POW) DATE: 1932 DOC#: PO W O ll DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Excerpt - Trade Journal NEWS Babcock & Wilcox and Fuller Lehigh Consolidate The Babcock & Wilcox Company, 85 Liberty Street, New York, has an nounced a further consolidation of the resources and facilities of the Babcock & Wilcox and the Fuller Lehigh or ganizations, effective January 1. The sales offices of the two companies have been combined and all business here tofore carried on separately or jointly by these companies will be done in the name of The Babcock & Wilcox Com pany through its district sales offices. As part of a program whereby The Babcock & Wilcox Company is able to furnish complete fuel burning and steam generating equipment, the com pany purchased in 1926 The Fuller Lehigh Company, manufacturer of pulverized fuel equipment and to its line was added Bailey Furnace Walls, formerly manufactured and sold by the Bailey Meter Company. The use of pulverized fuel increased rapidly, and concurrently, the trend toward higher steam pressures and larger boiler units gave the watercooled furnaces added importance and led to a further consolidation of the engineering, manufacturing, erection and service facilities of the two com panies early in 1931. At that time the manufacturing operations of Fuller Lehigh were transferred to the Bab cock & Wilcox works at Barberton, Ohio, and the executive offices were moved to New York City. The latest consolidation will, the company states, result in a more ef ficient sales service to the customers of both organizations. It also places The Babcock & Wilcox Company in a vastly better position to give com pletely coordinated sales, engineering and manufacturing service. Steam Power Revived to Drive Airplanes Revival of steam power for air planes will be definitely started in Cleveland within the next thirty days, according to an Associated Press re port dated January 11. Small model working units, designed to use in modernized form the same power that took Professor S. P. Langley on his famous tryouts in the '90's, will be carried into the air to check calcula tions with the actual performance. Captain H. C. Richardson, technical director of the Great Lakes Aircraft Corporation, where steam power for airplanes is being developed, said pre liminary designs have been finished and detailed designs of the new plant started. The units to be tested are approximately one-fourth the size of those intended for installation in huge flying boats. They will be taken up 56 individually at first on a standard air plane and tested in complete assembly later. Captain Richardson said the effici ency of each component as well as the fuel consumption of the entire plant has been determined and found satis factory. The plant is unique in many ways, although it operates similarly to those on the Navy's destroyers. The prime mover is a turbine like those on some European locomotives, Captain Rich ardson said. Steam is generated in a boiler surrounded by a water wall. Once used, the steam is condensed on the plane's wings and returned for continuous reconsumption with only slight loss. Captain Richardson said the steam plant has several advantages over gasoline motors. It cuts down fuel costs, fire hazards, the expense of lubricating oil, and eliminates exhaust noise and vibration. Supercharging for high altitudes is unnecessary. Coming Meetings Engineering; Institute o f Canada. A nnual m eeting a t the R oy al York H o tel, T oron to. Ont., F e b . 3-5. S e c r e ta r y R . J . D urley, 2050 M an s field St., M on treal, Que. Industrial Process H eating Confer e n c e -C a s e School of A pplied Scien ce, C levelan d, Ohio, F eb . 1012. D r. W . R . V eazey, C hairm an . I A m erican B oiler M anufacturers A s\ sociation-- M id-AVinter m eetin g a t j the C levelan d H otel. C leveland, j O hio. F e b . 11. S e c r e ta r y A. C. j B a k e r . SOI R o c k e fe lle r B u ild in g , / C le v e la n d , Ohio. Am erican W a ter W orks Association -- A nnual convention a t the H otel P eab o d y , M em phis, Tenn., M ay 2-6, 1932. S e c r e ta r y , B eelcm an C. Brit tle, 29 W est 39th St., N ew Y o rk C ity. N ational E lectric L igh t A ssocia tion-- A n n u al convention in the A t lan tic C ity A uditorium and C onven tion H all. A tlan tic City, N. J., Ju n e 6-10. S ecretary , A. Ja c k so n M ar sh a ll, 420 Jje x in g to n Ave., New Y ork City. Am erican Society for T estin g Ma terials. A nnual m eeting a t Chalfon te-H addon H all, A tlan tic C ity, N. J ,, Ju n e 20-24. S e cretary, C. L. AAfarwick, 1315 Sp ru ce St., P h ila d e l p h ia, 'Pa. Am erican Society of M echanical E n gineers-- Sprin g m eeting a t B igw in Inn, L a k e of B ay s, Ont., C an a d a , J u n e 2 7 - Ju ly 1. S e c r e ta r y , C a lv in AV. R ic e , 33 W e s t 39th St., N ew Y ork City. William S. Lee Heads Engineering Council William S. Lee, of Charlotte, N. was elected president of the American' Engineering Council, January 15. Mr. Lee is president of the W. S. Lee Engineering Corporation; vicechairman of the Duke Endowment, arc an officer and consultant, with head quarters in New York, of many lar.u public utility and industrial entri prises. He succeeds Carl E. Grunskv of San Francisco. E. W. Sessions has formed the E. (). Sessions Co., Ltd., consulting engi neers, Avith offices at 5022 Sheridan Road, Chicago, 111. Thomas F. Maher, formerly vie, president and general manager of th Chapman Valve Manufacturing C, Indian Orchard, Mass., was recent I, elected president of the company. S. B. Flagg, fuel engineer of tin Electric Bond & Share Co., and repre sentative of the National Electric Light Association on the Sectional Committee on Classification of Coals of the American Standards Associn tion, has been elected vice-chairman of that committee. Northern Equipment Compam. Erie, Pa., announces the appointment of the Hopton Company, 404 DenisoV Building, Syracuse, N. Y,, as. represen tative for Copes Feed Water Regu lators and allied equipment. -Combustion Engineering Corpora tion, New York announces that J . I). Harrison, district manager of the Chi cago office from 1922 to 1929, has bee reappointed to that position effecti' January 1, with offices in the Bankt Building, Adams and Clark Street Chicago. Mr. Harrison will succeed Hugh K. Carr, who has been transferred to th< Sales Department at New York a~ Manager of Stoker Sales. Bailey Meter Company, 1050 Ivan hoe Road, Cleveland, Ohio, announces the appointment of W. J. Reeder as Manager of its St. Louis Branch office. 127 Waterman Building, 457 Nor! Kingshighway. This appointment fii the vacancy made by the untime death of C. J . Prendergast, which r> suited from injuries received in a building collapse at Paoli,. Indiana a short time ago. For the past seven years, Mr. Reeder has been connected with the Chicago Branch Office of the Bailey Meter Company. Mr. Reeder will be assisted by J. R. Buss, who has. been located in the St. Louis district for the past four years. February 1932-- STEAM-PLANT ENGINEERING v i r . C1B 143 539 ( VOLUME STEAM-PLANT ENGINEERING ONE NUMBER T WO m -:w - CONTENTS FOR FEBRUARY f r o n t i sp i e c e San Antonio Public Service Com pany's 1530 lb. Boiler 1932 12 r`| i i . ARTICLES M odernizing the Old Boiler Plant The Rational Valuation of Furnace Perform ance Continuous Blowoff Control with Heat Recovery by Joseph Breslove . . . . 13 by F. H. Rosencrants . . 20 by T. P. 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