Gas-Engines and Producer-Gas Plants A Practice Treatise Setting Forth the Principles of Gas-Engines and Producer Design, the Selection and Installation of an Engine, Conditions of Perfect Operation, Producer-Gas Engines and Their Possibilities, the Care of Gas-Engines and Producer-Gas Plants, with a Chapter on Volatile Hydrocarbon and Oil Engines

The conditions which must be fulfilled both by engines and gas-producers in order that they may industrially operate with regularity and economy have been dwelt upon at some len...

The high cost and the complicated nature of the pressure gas-generators which have just been discussed have led manufacturers to attempt in some other way the generation of prod...

=The Otto Cycle.=--The term "four-cycle" motor, or Otto engine, has its origin in the manner in which the engine operates. A complete cycle comprises four distinct periods which...

In this chapter will be discussed certain perturbations which affect the operations of gas-engines to a more marked degree than lack of care in their construction. In previous c...

=Dowson Gas-Producers.=--The first pressure-generators were introduced by Dowson of London and necessitated installations of quite a complicated nature. Later improvements made...

In the preceding chapter the various structural details of an engine have been summarized and those arrangements indicated which, from a general standpoint, seem most commendabl...

Although this book is devoted primarily to a discussion of street-gas and producer-gas engines employed in various industries, a few words on oil and volatile hydrocarbon engine...

Thus far only street-gas or illuminating-gas engines have been discussed. If the engine employed be small--10 to 15 horse-power, for instance--street-gas is a fuel, the richness...

The reader will remember from what has already been said that a gas-engine is a motor which, more than any other, is subjected to forces, suddenly and repeatedly exerted, produc...

It may here be not amiss to point out the differences between illuminating gas and those gases which are called in English "producer" gases, and in French "poor" gases, because...

Circulation of water in explosion-engines is one of the essentials of their perfect operation. Two special cases are encountered. In the one the jacket of the engine is supplied...

Lubrication is a subject that should be studied by every gas-engine user. So far as the piston is concerned it is a matter of the utmost importance. The piston does its work und...

=General Care.=--Gas-engines, as well as most machines in general, should be kept in perfect condition. Cleanliness, even in the case of parts of secondary importance, is indisp...

The first step which is taken in starting an engine driven by street-gas is, naturally, the opening of the meter-cock and the valves between the meter and the engine. When the g...

The ease with which a gas-engine can be installed, compared with a steam-engine is self-evident. In places where illuminating gas can be obtained and where less than 10 to 15 ho...

Advantages.--Qualities of Fuel.--General Arrangement.-- Generator.--Cylindrical Body.--Refractory Lining.--Grate and Support for the Lining.--Ash-pit.--Charging-Box.-- Slide-Val...

The Duty of a Consulting Engineer.--Specifications.--Testing the Plant.--Explosion-Recorder for Industrial Engines.--Analysis of the Gases.--Witz Calorimeter.--Maintenance of Pl...

The Otto Cycle.--The First Period.--The Second Period.--The Third Period.--The Fourth Period.--Valve Mechanism.--Ignition.-- Incandescent Tubes.--Electric Ignition.--Electric Ig...

Difficulties in Starting.--Faulty Compression.--Pressure of Water in the Cylinder.--Imperfect Ignition.--Electric Ignition by Battery or Magneto.--Premature Ignition.--Untimely...

Street-Gas.--Composition of Producer-Gases.--Symptoms of Asphyxiation.--Gradual, Rapid Asphyxiation.--Slow, Chronic Asphyxiation.--First Aid in Cases of Carbon Monoxide Poisonin...