. Electric railway gazette . small. I will now proceed to a short general analysis ofthe combination of refuse destruction, electrictramway service and electric lighting on the lowtension system. For the purposes of illustrating the general ar-rangement I beg to draw your attention to the ac-companying diagram. Tiie large circle of linesrepresents the tramcar route, with the destructorstation on the confines of the town, and the elec-tric lighting station in the center. POWER FROM REFUSE DESTKUCTION. It is now a generally admitted fact that, givenmodern improvements for the generation ofsteam,
. Electric railway gazette . small. I will now proceed to a short general analysis ofthe combination of refuse destruction, electrictramway service and electric lighting on the lowtension system. For the purposes of illustrating the general ar-rangement I beg to draw your attention to the ac-companying diagram. Tiie large circle of linesrepresents the tramcar route, with the destructorstation on the confines of the town, and the elec-tric lighting station in the center. POWER FROM REFUSE DESTKUCTION. It is now a generally admitted fact that, givenmodern improvements for the generation ofsteam, some power can be obtained from refusedestruction. The publication of Mr. CharlesJones book on Refuse Destructors has thrownlight upon a subject which has hitherto been neg-lected by engmeers, while the popular articlesby Mr. Thomas Thomlinson have brought newpossibilities before the electrical .engineer. To sum up the whole of the evidence containedin Mr. Jones work I find that out cf 50 de- /t£ruS£ OESTRUCTOFI ST/IT/OA/. structors- at work destroying from 3* tons to 10tons per cell, the power obtained varies from 5to 7 H. P. per cell. This power has been generatedunder conditions for raising steam which havehad to be and will always have to be modi-fied and made compatible with the complete de-struction of the refuse from a sanitary point ofview. The question therefore arises : What is the bestuse to which this power may be put? Hitherto ithas found its solution for the most part in theworking of mortar mills and stonebreakers, or asa subsidiary power to an electric lighting station,possibly producing sufficient power for day loadpurposes. These applications, however, whiletheir advantages are not denied, do not use one-half of the available power, for the simple reasonthat most destructors are in operation the whole ofthe 34 hours, and the hot gases are at night per-force turned into a by-pass flue and so farwasted. - . Under every scheme which is at present beingtried th
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