Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from An Introduction to the Study of Fuel: A Text Book for Those Entering the Engineering, Chemical and Technical Industries
The descriptions of coke-making plant and gas producers have been kept Within narrow limits, since these are excellently described in many treatises.
All calculations are made with the gram and litre or cubic metre, as units of weight and volume respectively, because of the simplicity thereby introduced into the calculation of reacting quantities from a chemical equation. The calorie is used as the unit of heat, and for the conversion of this and the units of weight. And volume into other units, a simple conversion table has been given in Appendix V.
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