. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . uld be approximately 75° or 76°.The construction of the air washeris as follows: For a machine of 15,000Kw. (20,000 ) the opening of thewasher would be 17 ft. long. 4 feethigh and its depth would be 6 feet. Asthe air is drawn through this openingit is subjected to a fine, dense mist ofwater which is formed by means of aseries of spray nozzles located at thevery front of the opening of the wash-er. Across the compartment in frontof the nozzles is a wire screen whichbreaks the spray and cau
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . uld be approximately 75° or 76°.The construction of the air washeris as follows: For a machine of 15,000Kw. (20,000 ) the opening of thewasher would be 17 ft. long. 4 feethigh and its depth would be 6 feet. Asthe air is drawn through this openingit is subjected to a fine, dense mist ofwater which is formed by means of aseries of spray nozzles located at thevery front of the opening of the wash-er. Across the compartment in frontof the nozzles is a wire screen whichbreaks the spray and causes the waterto drop in a sheet across the air cur-rent. Back of the screen are baffleswhich separate the water from the water which drops into the bottom .of the washer is withdrawn and circu-lated through the nozzles, a settling reciprocating engine was over, but greatimprovements were made in the formertype so that both of these types havebeen and are used with success. A third method has now come to thefront: the electric motor, and it remainsto be seen whether still further improve-. TIIREE SECTION- ELEVATION, SPRAYTYPE AIR WASHER AND COOLER. in the reciprocating engines andturbines will be made. The U. S. Col-lier Jupiter has been equipped with mo-tors for driving the propellors during thepast two years and observations haveshown the method to be thoroughlypractical, so good, in fact, that the same
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