. The Street railway journal . in diameter and arranged in fanshape. The engine room contains at presentfour units of 1500 kw each, but there isroom for the installation of three ad-ditional units of the same size. The en-gines were built by the Vande KerchoveCompany, of Ghent, and are of the twintandem compound type, there being twoengines of from 900 hp to 1400 hp directlyconnected to the same shaft, which car-ries the rotor of the alternator. Thecylinder dimensions of these engines are630-mm and 1090-mm x 1200-mm stroke( ins. and ins. x ins.). Theyoperate at 94 r. p. m., with
. The Street railway journal . in diameter and arranged in fanshape. The engine room contains at presentfour units of 1500 kw each, but there isroom for the installation of three ad-ditional units of the same size. The en-gines were built by the Vande KerchoveCompany, of Ghent, and are of the twintandem compound type, there being twoengines of from 900 hp to 1400 hp directlyconnected to the same shaft, which car-ries the rotor of the alternator. Thecylinder dimensions of these engines are630-mm and 1090-mm x 1200-mm stroke( ins. and ins. x ins.). Theyoperate at 94 r. p. m., with a pressure of9 atmospheres (120 lbs.) with the tem-perature of the admission steam at 275 of 25 per cent, and 6 per cent during a rapid change from o tomaximum to vice versa. The rotor of the alternator, whosemoment of gyration is 700,000 kg m (7,063, ), is ofsufficient weight to insure the synchronous operation of thealternators without any special apparatus. The normal horse-power of the two twin engines is 1800. FIG, 3.—EXTERIOR OF POWER STATION 2 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXII. No. 14.
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