. The Street railway journal . it has gone through the condensers. This coolingtower consists of a steel shell 12 ft. in diameter and 30 , filled with vitrified sewer pipe placed on end. Thewater is pumped to the top of the cooling tower andsprayed over the sewer tile, falling through them to a tankbelow. A blower is provided at the base of the steelshell to force a draught of air up through the tile. Thetemperature of the water is sufficiently lowered by theevaporation, so that it may be used over again in the con-denser, and a vacuum of twenty-five inches is guaranteedby the company f
. The Street railway journal . it has gone through the condensers. This coolingtower consists of a steel shell 12 ft. in diameter and 30 , filled with vitrified sewer pipe placed on end. Thewater is pumped to the top of the cooling tower andsprayed over the sewer tile, falling through them to a tankbelow. A blower is provided at the base of the steelshell to force a draught of air up through the tile. Thetemperature of the water is sufficiently lowered by theevaporation, so that it may be used over again in the con-denser, and a vacuum of twenty-five inches is guaranteedby the company furnishing the cooling tower and con-denser. A diagran: of the switchboard is given in Fig. are four generator panels corresponding to the fourgenerators and one motor panel, from which is controlled ing on the highest voltage. Each generator panel carries,with a 250 volt Weston voltmeter, one recording ammeter,one 1500 ampere Weston ammeter and an underload andoverload circuit breaker. There is also a three-way switch.
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