Document 920DXb2rE5yj8d65NpEOrxRp

Little stories of big savings In LAGONDA fuie cleaning per hr, for ibe about 20% of Ingle retort a The case of the represent only 10% 0j ,/ cpscil, hM, thty the setecD&Rs made. . For the author's coo,ft Insistent Engineer year*, 1949-5!, Ineluil*^ ^ retort *le were tORtt^-S meat units Installed in 0y. refractory furnaces. Of fa for Installation in ac* ^ Happened at an important mid* die western utility. One of the engineers kept insisting that the water treatment they were using should be supplemented by occa* sional mechanical tube cleaning, were installed In MandwtUa ers with integral water*,t refractory furnace* sod "custom designed" fumsca walla. Very obviously & lion of boiler equipment 11low first cost, bet water c furnaces was given pritrtc t Low price Is contingent o* deviation from the maoefictt which had not been used for four years. Nobody . believed him, but his persistence finally won out to the effect that they consented to clean one boiler with ard design proporttoos; tie, if any, latitude lor laci nace height, applicatics shape* of walls, etc, to ier type of combustSen pjjp Lagonda tube cleaners, just to see. Result, startling increased efficiency of the unit, an unexpectedly large Study of the entire < standardised boiler sppU regard to minimum f"aPmePM grate to convection sort that only 20% of the tots enable application o5 fIflfqlJ Q stokers satisfactoryto the a 'pony. The remaining 80% quite flame travel ter stokers. Yet these uniu lory service. But to provide for m around performance with at venllonat designs of beih observations are offered, d. experience: , <friS (l) Widest latitude In iW, of coal comes from installing lug grate type of stoker In * down to the minimum In hkh. is available, and by providing' cooled furnace, at least In th (2) Operation with tha mt tradhfonal thick fuel bedi*. waa, a wrong approach to ance. Performance will b* ^ tenance least, fuel (legibility,4 when operation i* malatttowJ thinnest firebed which iriHwPf hustion with excess lr ^ 30 to 40%. With present dsy *\ operating personnel, such epejji most readily obtainable by ihjU tion of careful adjustment *":g nance of iho ateamflew*"*j automatic combustion control. <J) CUtr tni 8, *!> <*' relifivcly tow wilt ' Geared to a new and important tr big Industry's capital investment. Holding fivesignificant departments' include Power's famed "MOD PLANT SURVEY" with tabulated da more than 500 new steam and h plants -- and POWER'S DIRECTORY OF MANUFACTURERS The only directory of power-field eqt ment and who makes it. THE RENOVATION ROUND TABLE A forum of top opinion on power systs modernization. CROSS FILE OF OBSOLESCENCE A check list of former manufacturers c power-field equipment matchedwith nam> of successor company. THE SHOW CASE New products needed in modernization. Names of manufacturers. Double order card for further information. / THE MODERN PLANT HANDBOOK ISSUE it's edited to help you solve plant modernization problems, and to provide highly useful reference data available nowhere else. ---V cise.