. The Street railway journal . y for heating 135,000 lbs. of water per hour, from70 degs. F. to 212 degs. F. (f) Two Worthington boiler feed pumps. (g) Two Worthington make-up pumps. (h) Two Worthington step-bearing pumps. (0 Three Worthington step-bearing water return pumps. (j) One accumulator for the step bearings with a capacity of 100gals, of water at 800 lbs. pressure per square inch. Thisaccumulator was supplied by R. D. Wood & Company,of Philadelphia, area of the power house is 17,069 sq. ft., and the cubic contents amounts to 829,113 cu. ft., thus giving sq. ft. and
. The Street railway journal . y for heating 135,000 lbs. of water per hour, from70 degs. F. to 212 degs. F. (f) Two Worthington boiler feed pumps. (g) Two Worthington make-up pumps. (h) Two Worthington step-bearing pumps. (0 Three Worthington step-bearing water return pumps. (j) One accumulator for the step bearings with a capacity of 100gals, of water at 800 lbs. pressure per square inch. Thisaccumulator was supplied by R. D. Wood & Company,of Philadelphia, area of the power house is 17,069 sq. ft., and the cubic contents amounts to 829,113 cu. ft., thus giving sq. ft. and cu. ft. per kw as the unit output of the station, based on 8000 kw as the ultimate capacity of the presentstructure. The layout of the steam piping in the power house is of avery neat design and allows ample operating space around allthe machinery. W. K. Mitchell & Co., of Philadelphia, Pa.,were the sub-contractors for this work, together with thesteam valves, etc., and Keasby & Mattison furnished the FIG. 1.—VIEW OF TURBINES, TRANSFORMERS AND LIGHT-NING ARRESTERS AT WESTVILLE POWER STATION November io, 1906.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 933 :rior view : >\; STATION BOILER HOUSE The boiler house is furnished with twelve Stirling water-tube, boilers arranged in pairs forming six batteries. Eachboiler is rated at 358 hp and is furnished with a superheatercapable of delivering steam at 175 lbs. pressure and at a tem-perature of 125 deg. F. in excess of that of saturated Stirling Boiler Company was sub-contractor for both theboilers and boiler settings.
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