. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . heap fuel and will not admitthere is such a thing as poor coal. TheMechanical Department, to avoid steamfailures, is drafting engines to poorest fuel, and the men on accountof poor coal, improperly drafted enginesor lack nf interest arc burning frnni 10 Coal wasted on account of firing notbeing properly done. HEAT WASTED ON ACCOUNT OF: Ash pans not properly made for ad-mission of air to give proper combustionor not kept cleaned out. Engines not drafted right to giveproper combustio
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . heap fuel and will not admitthere is such a thing as poor coal. TheMechanical Department, to avoid steamfailures, is drafting engines to poorest fuel, and the men on accountof poor coal, improperly drafted enginesor lack nf interest arc burning frnni 10 Coal wasted on account of firing notbeing properly done. HEAT WASTED ON ACCOUNT OF: Ash pans not properly made for ad-mission of air to give proper combustionor not kept cleaned out. Engines not drafted right to giveproper combustion. Boilers or flues being dirty. Steam leaks in fire box or front endthat interfere with the proper combustionof the fuel as well as- wasting heat by theleakage. Forcing the fire too hard, drawing thegases out of the stack at too high a tem-perature. Engines not properly lagged. Heat wasted which might be saved byhollow fire brick arches, combustiontubes, feed water heaters or special de-vices of this nature that have been proveneconomical. STEAM WASTED DUE TO : Nalves or cylinder packing Illi. .MOIHIKN IIICilWAN nl lOMMEKli:. to 20 per cent, more tuel than other channels through which en-ergy is wasted may be mentioned the fol-lowing : COAL WASTED. Coal not properly inspected at themines, allowing slack and dirt in con-siderable amounts to take up space incars, tanks and fire boxes that the coalshould occupy, to say nothing of the losscaused by dirty fires, clinkers, etc. Coal spilled at coal chutes and notpicked up. Coal stolen all along the line. Coal wasted on account of improperor wasteful methods of firing up enginesat the roundhouse. Coal spilled from engine tanks beingfilled too full. Coal spilled from engine deck on ac-count of its not being kept clean. Coal wasted through grates on accountof the fireman shaking grates im-properly. Cylinders n;t smcoth. That is, wherethe inside of the cylinder wall has not be-come glazed so as to reflect the heat
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