Chemical engineering . iron and steel works forsupplying fuel to gas engines when the waste blast furnacegases arc not adequate for providing sufficient power, butat present high power gas engines utilize these waste gasesextensively, and with the greatest of economy. Fig. 2 showsa 300-hp. single-cylinder, double-acting Deutz gas enginedriving a direct-current generator at the power plant of theLauchhammcr Iron Works. The suction gas producer is being largely employed; theadvantages claimed for it arc that no boiler nor gas holderis necessary, and that it can be erected without daneer in 86 EL
Chemical engineering . iron and steel works forsupplying fuel to gas engines when the waste blast furnacegases arc not adequate for providing sufficient power, butat present high power gas engines utilize these waste gasesextensively, and with the greatest of economy. Fig. 2 showsa 300-hp. single-cylinder, double-acting Deutz gas enginedriving a direct-current generator at the power plant of theLauchhammcr Iron Works. The suction gas producer is being largely employed; theadvantages claimed for it arc that no boiler nor gas holderis necessary, and that it can be erected without daneer in 86 ELECTROCHEMICAL AND METALLURGICAL INDUSTRY. [Vol. III. No. 2. any convenient place, while it is easy to start and the suction gas producer plant only a small floor spaceis required, and there is no soot, smoke or odor, and thehighest and best utilization of the fuel is obtained, there be-ing automatic generation of the gas by tlic engine. Combina-tions of suction gas producers and gas engines are built, for. FIG. 2.—BLAST FURNACE G.\S ENGINE ELECTRIC PL.\NT. instance, by the Gas-Motoren Fabrik Deutz, represented inthis country by the Otto Gas Engine Works, of Philadelphia. It is claimed by prominent engineers that a high advan-tageous utilization of fuel results from employing gas engineswhich take their supply from producer gas power plants con-structed for generating out of a suitable fuel a proper mixtureof hydrogen and carbon monoxide. Some of the gas pro-ducer plants of the pressure type have boilers for providingsteam which is with air; by means of a fan or steamjet blower it is forced through the glowing fuel, with the re-sulting oxidation of the fuel to carbon monoxide, while hydro-gen is simultaneously. obtained from the steam. The gasengine receive? these combustible gases from a gas holder, towhich conducted after passing through scrubbers. The ga<! producers of the suction type are said to be cheaperand simpler, requiring no gas holde
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