The Compound Engine

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The Compound Engine
Low, F. R. (Frederick Rollins), 1860-1936
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This can be avoided by put- ting in a third or intermediate cylinder to effect the expansion from D to F instead of letting it take place freely in the receiver.
This gives us a triple expansion engine. Mr. George I. Rock- wood claims that it is better to leave out the middle cylinder, using two cylinders with a large ratio, and tolerate the dropf, and he has succeeded in producing some efficiencies closely approach- ing those of the triple expansion engine, with engines which were pra
...ctically triples with the intermediate cylinder left out. If it * Manual Steam Engine, part I, p. 594.
+ Railroad and Eng. Jour., Dec, 1891. Trans. A. S. M. E., Vol., XIII, p. 647. Vol. XIV, 462.
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were simply a question of saving the triangular area the call for the third cylinder would be less imperative. If the increased range of temperature in the first cylinder induces excessive initial condensation there, which is only partially recovered in the sec- ond cylinder, the intermediate cylinder may be worth the cost of installation, maintenance and complication.


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