Babcock & Wilcox Boilers Fired with Blast Furnace Gas at the Bethlehem Steel Co., Bethlehem, Pa. This Company Operates 12,900 Horse Power of Babcock & Wilcox Boilers

FOOTNOTES

[44] Includes N.

[45] Includes silt.

[46] Net efficiency = gross efficiency less 2 per cent for steam used in atomizing oil.

Heat value of oil = 18500 B. t. u.

One ton of coal weighs 2000 pounds. One barrel of oil weighs 336 pounds. One gallon of oil weighs 8 pounds.

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GASEOUS FUELS AND THEIR COMBUSTION

Of the gaseous fuels available for steam generating purposes, the most common are blast furnace gas, natural gas and by-product coke oven gas.