. Electric railway journal . enger increase, butrather let it be treated as a good-will account of in-tangible but undoubtedly high value to the well-being ofthe concern as a whole. September 10, 1921 Electric Railway Journal 387 Novel Condenser Pump House American Railways Power Plant at Kenova, W. Va., Recently Enlarged in Capacity, Now DerivesCirculating Water from New Electrically Driven Centrifugal Pumps, Housed in aStructure Which Is Designed to Be Flood Proof THE Ohio Valley Electric Railway, the headquar-ters of which are at Huntington, W. Va., drawsits power supply from a plant locate
. Electric railway journal . enger increase, butrather let it be treated as a good-will account of in-tangible but undoubtedly high value to the well-being ofthe concern as a whole. September 10, 1921 Electric Railway Journal 387 Novel Condenser Pump House American Railways Power Plant at Kenova, W. Va., Recently Enlarged in Capacity, Now DerivesCirculating Water from New Electrically Driven Centrifugal Pumps, Housed in aStructure Which Is Designed to Be Flood Proof THE Ohio Valley Electric Railway, the headquar-ters of which are at Huntington, W. Va., drawsits power supply from a plant located at Kenova,operated by the Consolidated Light, Heat & PowerCompany. Both of these properties are controlled bythe American Railways Company, Philadelphia, to the rapidly increasing load on this power plant,which was originally designed by James Fagan, it hasbeen necessary to make successive improvements withinthe past few years, one of the most notable of whichhas been the installation of a pumping plant for con-. Pumping Plant from Land Side in Flood Season, ShowingTransformers in Position on Balcony denser circulating water on the bank of the Big SandyRiver near the plant. The increasing demand on the plant can be realizedfrom the fact that its output is now 70,000,000 annum, as compared with 15,000,000 eightyears ago. The overload on the plant, in overtaxingthe condensers due to their limited supply of cool con-densing water, resulted in a coal consumption of about34 lb. per kilowaft-hour. Due partly to the installation of the new condensing-water circulating equipment, the coal consumption hasbeen cut down to about 2 lb., and it is estimated thatthe cost of the improvement, $150,000, will have beencovered by the saving effected in about ten monthsof operation. A vacuum of from 28 to 29 in. referredto a 30-in. barometer can now be maintained. Power Plant Has an Assorted Equipment When this plant was taken over by the AmericanRailways in 1910 the ge
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