A supplement to Ures Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines, : containing a clear exposition of their principles and practice. . UaJ pJ^-lVJ-^-T-JN-^-^. COAL-GAS. 383 return of gas towards the retorts. The condensed products, consisting chiefly of tar,make their exit from the hydraulic main by the pipe d, which leads them to the tar the hydraulic main the gas passes to the condense); the office of which, as its riaineimplies, is to effect the condensation of all those vapors which could not be retained by thegas at the ordinary atmospheric temperature. The condenser has received
A supplement to Ures Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines, : containing a clear exposition of their principles and practice. . UaJ pJ^-lVJ-^-T-JN-^-^. COAL-GAS. 383 return of gas towards the retorts. The condensed products, consisting chiefly of tar,make their exit from the hydraulic main by the pipe d, which leads them to the tar the hydraulic main the gas passes to the condense); the office of which, as its riaineimplies, is to effect the condensation of all those vapors which could not be retained by thegas at the ordinary atmospheric temperature. The condenser has received a variety oflorms, but the one which appears to unite in the highest degree simplicity and efficiency, isthe invention of Mr. Wright, of the Western and Great Central Gas Companies. Its con-struction is shown in Jiff. 184. a A a a are 5 double concentric cast-iron cylinders, throu^diwliich the gas is made to circulate in succession by means of the ticpipes b b b b, whilst theinner cylinders being open above and below, a current of air, set in motion by tlieir heatedwalls, rushes through them, thus securing both an internal and external refrigeratory
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