Public works . that the Universit3 of Michigan is at presentthe only institution offering work of this character. TESTS OF A UNAFLOW PUMPING ENGINE. A type of steam engine known as the Unaflow has comeinto more or less prominence during the past year or two, andwhile the principle of it is not particularly new, successfulefforts to develop it as a practical and efficient commercial ma-chine are quite recent. A pump of this kind has been installedat the Porter Avenue pumping station of the Buffalo waterworks which has a capacity of about three milhon gallons in 24hours. Tests have been made on
Public works . that the Universit3 of Michigan is at presentthe only institution offering work of this character. TESTS OF A UNAFLOW PUMPING ENGINE. A type of steam engine known as the Unaflow has comeinto more or less prominence during the past year or two, andwhile the principle of it is not particularly new, successfulefforts to develop it as a practical and efficient commercial ma-chine are quite recent. A pump of this kind has been installedat the Porter Avenue pumping station of the Buffalo waterworks which has a capacity of about three milhon gallons in 24hours. Tests have been made on this pump by the builders,and these tests are being continued, and it is possible may leadto slight modifications in design or operation of the pump. Theprinciple of the pump and the results of the tests so far madeformed the subject of a paper before the New England WaterWorks Association by A. Decrow of the Worthington Pumpand Machinery Corporation, New York. The informationtherein given is abstracted TYPICAL UNAFLOW STEAM CYLINDERCARD. AND INDICATOR
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