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POWERFAX * i po-rr plaau. or , ch.rgC of *,. ** c |u/e ,han 37.OOO copies are d- prmTv ' |he compliments of Elliott 1--* ...... . rrJ Irimdr -*<* carer- " ,. ,v K.|hfiK. Kiiiior. F-lliot* Company. POWERFAX VOLUME THIRTY-TWO NUMBER 3 boat Co-on Kc hoi* /W" readers have been able nuke some sense out of the front covers ha.r been using this year. In these covers, luvc attempted to show in modcrmst.c __ ||iott products applying to certain industries. The spring cover was a power -ant; the summer issue, a chemical plant; ^d the current autumn issue refers to steel, er more particularly a blast furnace. The background in all eases was a line drawing r die particular plant in mind. On the .not cover of this issue, we hope you can ,__v . out a multiunit motor-generator, a BilMypr motor, a multistage turbinednvm centrifugal compressor, such as would be used in blast furnace service, and * leaning strainer. Hr Publications '- Bulletin PB-60Q0-5--Elliott C-W Loom . A standard four-page publication covering a line of totally-enclosed squirrel: motors designed specifically to meet the requirements of loom drive, in capacities y* to 2 hp. Bulletin Q-23--Elliott Equipment for ie feted Industry. A 32-page Wiro-bound featuring electrical installations in l and allied industries. Also illustrated, i products used in these industries. Y-38--Elliott Tube Expanders, .*fckt-page bulletin giving full descrip- *d pricing data on Elliott tube ex- for condensers and heat exchangers. Bulletin A-I9A--Type K Self-Cleaning Strainer. A four-page reprint of 1 A-19 with minor revisions. lowing Ridgway bulletins have tpbesttly been revised and brought up-to- Illustrations of enclosed forced-vcnti1 machines show latest streamlined en- l All bulletins illustrate and describe a details and mechanical modi- - - 300(M-354--D-C Generators, 200kw, high or low speed. For all drives. ^4800-1-654--Motor-generator sets. ->.5000 kw. 5600-1-054--Synchronous Motors for ^Wt, or gear drive. 100 to 50,000 hp. --D-C Motors, 250-6000 ^djksw speed, for direct, belt, or CONTENTS FOR AUTUMN 1954 Jackson iron and steel company modernizes.................................................. 4 MODERNIZATION OF SKELP MILL AT WHEELING STEEL'S BENWOOD WORKS. . .8 THE GEARED TURBINE AS A RECIPROCATING COMPRESSOR DRIVE.................... !2 PULPWOOD FLUME SYSTEM (Uaioo Bag Sc Paper Corporation)........................ ......... 14 MOTORS FOR FLOATING CRANES (Dravo Corporation)................................................... 16 WATER, PLUS AIR, GIVES .ADDED PUNCH TO JIFFY CUN........................................... 18 ELLIOTT GENERATOR USED ON VITAL MILL AND TOWNSITE WATER SUPPLY FOR NORTHERN B.C. PULP MILL (Alwka Pine and Cellulose Limited)......................... 19 ITALIAN STEEL MILL DRIVES........................................................................................... 21 SUNTIDE AT CORPUS CHRISTI..........................................................................................22 EJECTORS SERV E SUGAR PANS (Ceacral Manodita)......................................................... 24 IN AN ALLOY STEEL MILL................................................................................................. 25 FORD'S VERSATILE SINTERING PLANT...........................................................................26 MOTORS FOR PAPERBOARD MILL DRIVE (A. St P. Corrugated Paper Box Corporation) .28 EMERGENCY TURBINE GENERATOR UMTS................................................................ 30 POWERCRAX......................................................................................................................... 31 Steel Mill Paper The Spring Pouerjax noted the fact that Philip Scarola of our Pittsburgh Office and C. C. Brandt, superintendent electrical department, Bethlehem Pacific Coast Steel Corporation, Los Angeles, had presented a paper before the Western meeting of AISE in Los Angeles in February. Iron and Steel Engineer for July printed this paper as a seven-page article, complete with two tables and thirteen figures or illustrations. Reprints of the article arc available. District Offices The Kansas City district office on June 50 moved to 514 West 75th Street, Kansas City 14, Missouri, Phone DELmar 2688. This location is nine and a half miles south of the downtown section in a smalt com mercial area. Public transportation within one block. J. D. Gosdn, who spent two yean in the small turbine division in Jeannette, and four years as a field engineer in the St. Louis office, is now in the Los Angeles district office. . J. McQuade, who has been a field engineer in the Dallas office for some time, was transferred to Kansas City district of fice on July 24. Speakers On the program at the annual convention of the Association of Iron and Steel Engi neers in Cleveland, September 30, is E. I. Pollard, Elliott Company, chief electrical engineer, on the subject "Synchronous Con densers for Steel Mill Service." Young Engineers In this photograph are most of the engineering graduates who were absorbed into the Elliott organization last summer. The men and their assignments, left to right in the picture: Spitz, industry engineering, Pittsburgh; Read, Los Angeles; Shebek, Cleveland; Menard, Boston; Reifenberger, New York; De Witt, military service; Milstead, Dallas; Parrott, Washington; Jasmin, Detroit; Byrne, turbocharger application engineer. OpottComHi Unv i- POWERFAX. AUTUMN 19S4 PAGE