. Electrical world. portion of the fuel. 5i8 ELECTRICAL WORLD and ENGINEER. Vol. XLIII, No. ii. thus forming carbonic gas and supplying heat to split up thesteam into its elements, the oxygen of the steam combining with acertain proportion of the incandescent carbon to form carbonousoxide. As this combination of carbonic oxide, carbonous oxideand hydrogen passes up through the hot bed of carbon, the carbonicoxide takes up an additional atom of carbon, forming carbonousoxide. There passes over the generator, therefore, by way of the pipeB, a mixture of hydrogen, carbonous oxide and the n
. Electrical world. portion of the fuel. 5i8 ELECTRICAL WORLD and ENGINEER. Vol. XLIII, No. ii. thus forming carbonic gas and supplying heat to split up thesteam into its elements, the oxygen of the steam combining with acertain proportion of the incandescent carbon to form carbonousoxide. As this combination of carbonic oxide, carbonous oxideand hydrogen passes up through the hot bed of carbon, the carbonicoxide takes up an additional atom of carbon, forming carbonousoxide. There passes over the generator, therefore, by way of the pipeB, a mixture of hydrogen, carbonous oxide and the nitrogen con-tained in the air required for the process along with a small pro-portion of carbonic oxide. The generator is fed as shown by aproperly sealed opening at the top, so that it may be charged withoutinterfering with its operation. After leaving the gas generator the hot gases pass out through thepipe B, heating in their course the water in the boiler as previously k-Producer B-CoiuJatxr It Siesta Servrilor. FIG. I.—GAS GENERATOR. mentioned and forming the steam for use in the generator. Thegases then pass into the scrubber and the cooling chamber, F, F, inwhich the gas is cooled and cleaned by a spray of water sent througha checker work or through loosely piled coke. It then passes throughthe purifier, G, which removes such dust as there may remain in itand takes out the superfluous moisture. H is a. small gas tank orequalizer for reducing the pulsation in the main occurring at thetime when the engine is drawing a supply of gas. There are many other forms of gas generators, but most of themoperate on a principle simliar to that above described. This par-ticular generator gives satisfactory results only with anthracite coalor coke. The generators for using bituminous coal require a some-what different method of construction and operation from thatdescribed, because of the fact that with bituminous coal there aregiven off a number of tar products which must be either a
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