Electrochemical and metallurgical industry . lliam Beardmore & Cos large, new shipyard at Dalmuiron the Clyde, which was also installed by Mr. Duff. Thefirst installation, containing 3 producers, is shown in the ad-joining illustration. The bulk of the gas is used in gasengines of the Oechelhaeuser type, built by Messrs. Beard-more & Co. themselves. The gas engines drive dynamos forthe supply of electric power. Both plants burn Scotcli lii-tuminous slag, a very cheap fuel. A brief description of the operation of the plant should lieof interest. The coal is brought into the works in wagons, fro
Electrochemical and metallurgical industry . lliam Beardmore & Cos large, new shipyard at Dalmuiron the Clyde, which was also installed by Mr. Duff. Thefirst installation, containing 3 producers, is shown in the ad-joining illustration. The bulk of the gas is used in gasengines of the Oechelhaeuser type, built by Messrs. Beard-more & Co. themselves. The gas engines drive dynamos forthe supply of electric power. Both plants burn Scotcli lii-tuminous slag, a very cheap fuel. A brief description of the operation of the plant should lieof interest. The coal is brought into the works in wagons, from whichit is tipped into a large boot receiver below rail level. Bymeans of a chain-and-bucket continuous elevator, it is raisedto an upper platform above the producers. Along this plat-form the coal is conveyed and dropped at will into any one ofthe storage hoppers provided for each producer feed. Thecoal is shot as required into the producers through gas-tighttrap-boxes. The gas issuing from the producers is partly cooled by pass-. Producer Gas Plants in Scotland. With reference to an article of Mr. F. C. Perkins in ourFebruary issue (page 85), we have received some notes bjrMr. Edward J. DufT, of Dnff Brothers & Co., Liverpool, re-ferring especially to the Parkhead Steel Works, of WilliamBeardmore & Co., Glasgow. Mr. Duff states that this pro-ducer gas plant was erected to his patents, designed andstarted into operation by himself, and is entirely a Duff gas GAS PRODUCER PL.\NT. ing through a regenerator by which a portion of the heat istransmitted through tube surfaces to the incoming air andsteam. The incoming air and steam are fed to the super-heaters through the pipe shown near the top of the oval-shaped chambers above the producers; they leave them nearthe base and pass through a pipe to the blowing chamlier ofthe producer below the fuel bed. The superheaters are pro-vided with dust separating boxes, and the same is the casewith the rectangular gas main, which is shown
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