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OCTOBER, 1952 Volume 56, No. 10 Circulation of this issue 25,750 i How G.E. Tests Gas Turbines........ 62 Modernization at Container Corp. 68 ; 1 1 Power Plant Paint........ 70 i New Generator Excitation System 92 More Slants on Smoke............... 102 Complete Contents on page 5 TECHNICAL PUBLISHING COMPANY CHICAGO, IL lk- OfS f--ftMNTIff'S i EXHIBIT IW-il 1 i  ' ENGINEERS' PREVIEW E. Parish (Pat) Lovejoy. director of Detroit Edison Company's Public Informatior. Division, will bemisseC around Detroit Edison for the next year. He has been eranred a year's leave o: absence recuesred for reasons of health. Appointed to take up his duties is George H. Tuttle, an Edison man since 19.7, who recently returned to che company after a six month loan assignment as a Defense Electric Power Administration consultant in Washington, D. C. William Rogers Herod has been elected a vice president of the General Electric Company and will continue as president of the International General Electric Company which he has headed since 1945. ' At the same time, it was announced that the International General Electric Company, Incorporated, which has been a wholly-owned affiliate of General Elec tric since 1919, will, on July 31, be merged with and become a division of the Gen eral Electric Company. As a division of the parent company, the International General Electric Company will retain that name and continue to have the same responsibilitv for the conduct of the for eign business of rhe company. Herod and the other officers of the former affiliate will retain their titles and continue in rhe same capacities. * * * Donald R. Jenkins will be manager of the newlv-formed gas turbine application engineering section of the Steam Division of the Westinghouse Electric Corporation at South Philadelphia, Pa. The section was formed recently to handle all Com pany negotiations involving gas turbines for land and marine service. Mr. Jenkins has been with Westinghouse since I94C, when he joined the Company's graduate student training .comic follpvang'his graduation from the University of Utah at Salt Lake City. He has held numerous engineering posts with the Company in Pittsburgh, Phila delphia, and Los Angeles. Since February, 2951, he has been an application engineer in the electric utility department of the Company's district office in Salt Lake City. The 200,000-kw generator being built by the Westinghouse Electric Corpora tion for the Philadelphia Electric Com pany will utilize inner-cooling in both its rotor and stator, it was disclosed recently. Scheduled for shipment to the Cromby station in 1954, che generator will bring the station's capacity to 350,000 kw. Inner cooling makes use of hollow generator conductors through w'hich the hydrogen gas is passed. Bringing the hydrogen in direct contact with che cop per conductors increases the cooling effect of the gas to such an extent that consider ably less copper and steel is needed per kilowatt of generator output. The 200,000-kw turbine-generator will be the largest single-shaft unit ever built. *** A Fellowship for conducting syste matic studies of standardization aod its applications in science, engineering, pro duction and marketing will be established at Mellon Institute, Pittsburgh, Pa. This Fellowship will be sustained at the Insti tute bv a grant from the Sarah Mellon Seai/e Foundation of Pittsburgh, and its projects will be organized and supervised by Dr. Dickson Reck, Advisory Fellow. Dr. Reck will work in cooperation with research specialists of the Institute and with national authorities and societies. *** Iron ore is mined beneath the sea more than two miles from shore near Bell Island, Newfoundland, according to American Iron and Steel Institute. A svstem of belt conveyors is being installed to help bring the ore from beneath Con ception Bay to the surface on the island. The svstem will be able to lift 1000 tons of ore an hour from a depth of 1730 ft. According to a published report this Wabana Mine is expected to supply 2, 800.000 tons of ore in 1952. *** The Philadelphia Electric Compant recently initiated rhe use of a new aerial photo method to inventory ''fuel on hand" in their enormous coal stockpiles. This new air survey system, used to check more than 500,000 cons of coal stored in ten different locations, obtained the in ventory figures in days instead of weeks, and cut inventory costs by 25 per cent. The survey plane flew over the stock piles at a set altitude. Using a precise timing device on their camera, they took two pictures'of each seventy-five acre sec tion, at slightly different angles. In this way, three-dimensional views of the ter rain were obtained photographically, and the contours of each coal pile were shown exactly. Special plotting equip ment quickly established the cubic vol ume of coal in each pile. When rechecked, this modern scientific method of aerial coal inventory, in addi tion to being much faster.aad less ex pensive, proved to be accurate to within 3-5 per cent. * * * . A new method of highly accurate analysis of various materials by means of atomic energy i$ now available at Oak Ridge as a service to industrial, scientific and medical groups. Developed by scientists at Oak Ridge Nacional Laboratory, the technique per mits detection and measurement of im purities in foods, pharmaceuticals, metals and other materials, and may help manu facturers improve the runty of their final prod ucts. The service is offered by Carbide and Carbon Chemicals Co., a division of Union Carbide and Carbon Corp., which operates ORNL for the Atomic Enercv Commission. Battelle Institute, Columbus, Ohio, will have soon a new million-doilar "spe cial purpose" laboratory building. Con struction was authorized by the NPA because of the important defense research being conducted at Battelle. Some 300 industrial firms, in addition to the Air Force, Army, Navy, and Atomic Energy Commission, are sponsor ing important research studies at Battelle. Director Clyde Williams estimates that in the space provided by che new building, Battelle will be in a position to conduct an additional Sl,OOQ.OOO worth of re search for defense agencies and defense industry. The new building will be of a specially reinforced-concrete construction designed to minimize vibration because the build ing will be occupied by research personnel working in electronics and other fields of research where delicate measurements are essential. *** The Council for Technological Ad vancement will assist the Machinery and Allied Products Institute in the execution of its specialized and concentrated pro gram in rhe interesrs of capital goods and industrial equipment producers and the public welfare. Its purpose will be to program, to pioneer, and to promote ideas for a more dynamic economy. The Council will undertake activities in the long-range interesc of technological advancement which MAPI alone cannot initiate for an indefinite period without disservice to other pressing needs. Also, it will accelerate MAPI's program by providing new centers for study and ac tion which will place at work an addi tional number of alert minds through its Board of Trustees and committees. *** One of the biggest birthday parties to be held anywhere this year -- 12,000 guests in five hotels -- will be the 40th annual National Safety Congress in Chi cago, Oct. 20-24. The Congress is the annual convention of members of the National Safety Coun cil. Through the Congress emphasis will be placed on the progress that has been made in accideot prevention in the four decades that have followed the first October, 1952--POWER ENGINEERING --Chicogo, Illinois 7