Transactions . ming the roof, this construction at Pompeybeing due to local conditions. It is not necessary to house theapparatus, only a covering for the motors being required. The plantshown in Fig. 28 is designed to treat the gases from two blastfurnaces, or 5,400,000 cu. ft. of gas per hour, and is intended to givethis entire amount of final cleaning for engine purposes, hence thetwo final washers. The arrangement of the plant permits of easy supervision and pro-vides a continuous operating system, as no periodical shutdown per-iods for cleaning are required; one plant has been in continuo
Transactions . ming the roof, this construction at Pompeybeing due to local conditions. It is not necessary to house theapparatus, only a covering for the motors being required. The plantshown in Fig. 28 is designed to treat the gases from two blastfurnaces, or 5,400,000 cu. ft. of gas per hour, and is intended to givethis entire amount of final cleaning for engine purposes, hence thetwo final washers. The arrangement of the plant permits of easy supervision and pro-vides a continuous operating system, as no periodical shutdown per-iods for cleaning are required; one plant has been in continuousoperation for 36 months without any shutdown for repairs or clean-ing, operating 24 hr. per day. The estimated cost of cleaning 5,400,000 cu. ft. of blast-furnace gasper hour for gas-engine purposes, with water at $10 per million gal-lons and power at 1 c. per kilowatt-hour, less labor, would be about6 c. per 100,000 cu. ft.; the labor is a minimum, as the only attention 414 THE CLEANING OF BLAST-FURNACE
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