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

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THE SELECTION OF AN ENGINE

The Duty of a Consulting Engineer.--Specifications.--Testing the Plant.--Explosion-Recorder for Industrial Engines.--Analysis of the Gases.--Witz Calorimeter.--Maintenance of Plants.--Test of Stockport Gas-Engine with Dowson Pressure Gas-Producer.--Test of a Winterthur Engine.--Test of a Winterthur Producer-Gas Engine.--Test of a Deutz Producer-Gas Engine and Suction Gas-Producer.--Test of a 200-H.P. Deutz Suction Gas-Producer and Engine 279