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George Edwards' Scrapbook Ipchemical cleaning saved 400 TONS OF COAL PER YEAR Fly ash, soot and carbonate deposits removed from condenser by Dowell; vacuum increased Nothing it cooler than fault finding; no talent, no selldenial, no brains, no character are required to set up in the grumbling business.--Roetftv Wut Now sonic energy is used for scrambling an egg inside the shell, setting cotton on fire with a whistle, floating cork in mid-air, making a water fountain without a pump, and, many other purposes. "So what?" was my first reaction. Then / re* membered Michael Faraday's answer when he was asked what good his newly invented gadget was that generated a slight current by cutting magnetic finer of force. 4'What good is a new-born babe?" tvar his only answer. Wish he could be around nout, /cut fong enough to see the t big 300,000 ku> generators that "babe" grew into.' We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, nut breaths; fn feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best. --I'tm.ir* James Bailey Said C E Deakins, Illinois Institute of Technology, "Each year the nation needs, for replacement alone, about 30,000 new engineers. Rut this June col leges expect to graduate but 24,000---only 19,000 in 1954 and 17,000 in 1955." I'm too old to shed even crocodile tears over this sad jiiuolion. We in the power field know that a product is only as good as the manufacturer's en gineering department. Yet an equipment salesman (who often has little engineering background) may earn so much more than the engineer who designs his superior product that there's little incentive for a youngster to burn the midnight oil. He can earn more money--and sooner, by following some other line. / may bewrong, but I'd like to hear from you readers. 1 aee where my friends at the Commonwealth Edison and Public Service of Northern Illinois have put their radar trouble-shooter to use. They have used it for spotting breaks in overhead electrical lines. But now they locate damaged buried cables. This uses same principle as military radar, only here the impuliej travel over a wire instead of through the air. When a fault develops in a line or cable, the fault locator is hooked up to one terminal. The radar impulse travels to 'the point of damage arid returns. The elapsed time, translated into distance, shows about where fault is. Looks like they should save plenty of man-hours locating breaks with this method. All truth is safe ond nothing else is safe; and he who keeps back the truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal, or both.--Max Muller Application Engineer Carl Ritter of Taylor In strument Co's flew bock from Saudi Arabia with some interesting stories. Said one headache power engineers have in the refineries Is sand. "Our boys have learned to control movement of shifting sand dunes, all right, by dumping oil on them. But fine rock material (less then l/256lh of a millimeter in dia) often remains suspended in atmosphere. When this fine sand collects on working parts of an instru ment, for exoniple--you know what happens. Also, the small pebbles (greater than 1 millimeter in dia), that blow about in sandstorms, raise hell. Combine these hazards with variations from 50 to 140 F temperatures in the shade, and you have problems." Think VU stick around the U.S. a little longer. Maybe 1 should see America first,'after all. Engineer POWEQ IUIY Fly ash and carbonate deposits on the water side of an 800-KW turbo surface condenser had reduced vacuum from a normal 28* to 24*. The temperature of tho ' water leaving the condenser had dropped from 95F. MoSS'F. ^T.These deposits were removed by Dowell Service with -specially prepared liquid solvents. Result: the con- ; 'denser was restored to its normal operating efficiency. : .`The steam requirement was redueed by 2.S pounds per (.kilowatt hour. On the basts of 8,000 hours of yearly `.-operation, the plant engineer calculated a saving of at least 400 tons of coal per year. . -"Dowell chemical cleaning methods can bo used on ^hundreds of different kinds of industrial equipment. Engineers especially trained for this kind of work do tho job for you. They apply solvents according to the technique demanded by the job: filling, spraying, jetting, cascading or voporizing. Dowell liquid'solvents can go wherever steam or woter will' flow, reaching places inaccessible to other cleaning methods. Scaf folding is unnecessary. Dismantling and downtime are kept to a minimum. A coll for Dowell Service will bring experienced per sonnel to your plant within a few hours with all neces sary chemicals, pump trucks and control equipment.For complete information and estimates on the clean ing of your equipment, contact the nearest Dowell office, or write directly to Tulsa, Dept. G 23. ;'Dowell Service Over 100 Offices to Serve Yoo with Oiem/cof Cfeorw'ng fori . - Boiler* Condenser* Heal Exchanger* Cooling Syttem* Pipe line* Piping Syitem* Gai Wodier* * Procot* Tower* Procen Equipment Evaporator*' * Filler Bed* * Tanks Chemical Sei Vices for Oil, Got and Wafer Wells ' "v DOWELL INCORPORATED TULSA.I, OKLAHOMA JULY 1933