. American engineer and railroad journal . u PLAN OF POWER HOUSE. supply the receiving tank with water from this hot well tomake good leakage or waste from the system. Water flowsfrom the receiver tank into a Cochrane feed water heaterby gravity, and is drawn from this by two Laidlaw-DunnGordon boiler feed pumps, 16 and 8x10 ins. of the duplex,outside packed, plunger pattern. Between the feed pumpsection and the feed water heater is placed a reservoir tankin order lo furnish a supply on which the boiler feed pumps November, 1906. AMERICAN ENGINEER AND RAILROAD JOURNAL. 121. BOILER ROOM SHOWINC
. American engineer and railroad journal . u PLAN OF POWER HOUSE. supply the receiving tank with water from this hot well tomake good leakage or waste from the system. Water flowsfrom the receiver tank into a Cochrane feed water heaterby gravity, and is drawn from this by two Laidlaw-DunnGordon boiler feed pumps, 16 and 8x10 ins. of the duplex,outside packed, plunger pattern. Between the feed pumpsection and the feed water heater is placed a reservoir tankin order lo furnish a supply on which the boiler feed pumps November, 1906. AMERICAN ENGINEER AND RAILROAD JOURNAL. 121. BOILER ROOM SHOWINC ARRANGEMENT OF STOKERS may draw in case of au emergency. The feed water heateris of 2, capacity, and while it is large enough for ordi-nary conditions it is sometimes emptied under extraordinarydemands, and it is for this reason that the reservoir is placedbetween the heater and the pump. The reservoir tank is 4ft. in diameter and 10 ft. high. To regulate the action of thefeed water pumps and insure the maintaining of the waterline in the boilers at a constant level two Vigilant feed waterregulators, manufactured by the Chaplin-Fulton Manufactur-ing Company of Pittsburgh, have been installed. Piping.—The piping for the engines and compressors passesdirectly through the floor into the basement, and the engineroom with no overhead piping thus presents a rather uniqueappearance. At the reav ofthe boilers is the main•steam header (12 ins.),divided into two section:..Each main header is con-nected in parallel with a fi-in. auxiliary line, and tiietwo main he
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