PAGE
Absolute pressure [117]
Absolute zero [80]
Accessibility of Babcock & Wilcox boiler [59]
Acidity in boiler feed water [106]
Actual evap. corresponding to boiler horse power [288]
Advantages of Babcock & Wilcox boilers [61]
Stoker firing [195]
Water tube over fire tube boilers [61]
Air, composition of [147]
In boiler feed water [106]
Properties of [147]
Required for combustion [152] , [156]
Specific heat of [148]
Supplied for combustion [157]
Vapor in [149]
Volume of [147]
Weight of [147]
Alkalinity in boiler feed water [103]
Testing feed for [103]
Altitude, boiling point of water at [97]
Chimney sizes corrected for [248]
Alum in feed water treatment [106]
A. S. M. E. code for boiler testing [267]
Analyses, comparison of proximate and ultimate [183]
Proximate coal, and heating values [177]
Analysis, coal, proximate, methods of [176]
Coal, ultimate [173]
Determination of heating value from [173]
Analysis, Flue gas [155]
Flue gas, methods of [160]
Flue gas, object of [155]
Anthracite coal [166]
Combustion rates with [246]
Distribution of [167]
Draft required for [246]
Firing [190]
Grate ratio for [191]
Semi [166]
Sizes of [190]
Steam as aid to burning [191]
Thickness of fires with [191]
Arches, fire brick, as aid to combustion [190]
Fire brick, for [304]
Fire brick, laying [305]
Automatic stokers, advantages of [195]
Overfeed [196]
Traveling grate [197]
Traveling grate, Babcock & Wilcox [194]
Underfeed [196]
Auxiliaries, exhaust from, in heating feed water [113]
Superheated steam with [142]
Auxiliary grates, with blast furnace gas [228]
With oil fuel [225]
With waste heat [235]
Babcock, G. H., lecture on circulation of water in Boilers [28]
Lecture on theory of steam making [92]
Babcock & Wilcox Co., Works at Barberton, Ohio [7]
Works at Bayonne, N. J. [6]
Babcock & Wilcox boiler, accessibility of [59]
Advantages of [61]
Circulation of water in [57] , [66]
Construction of [49]
Cross boxes [50]
Cross drum [53]
Cross drum, dry steam with [71]
Drumheads [49]
Drums [49]
Durability [75]
Evolution of [39]
Fittings [55]
Fixtures [55]
Fronts [53]
Handhole fittings [50] , [51]
Headers [50] , [51]
Inclined header, wrought steel [54]
Inspection [75]
Life of [76]
Materials entering into the construction of [59]
Mud drums [51]
Path of gases in [57]
Path of water in [57]
Rear tube doors of [53] , [74]
Repairs [75]
Safety of [66]
Sections [50]
Set for utilizing waste heat [236]
Set with Babcock & Wilcox chain grate stoker [12]
Set with bagasse furnace [208]
Set with Peabody oil furnace [222]
Supports, cross drum [53]
Supports, longitudinal drum [52]
Tube doors [53]
Vertical header, cast iron [58]
Vertical header, wrought steel [48]
Babcock & Wilcox chain grate stoker [194]
Babcock & Wilcox superheater [136]
Bagasse, composition of [206]
Furnace [209]
Heat, value of [206]
Tests of Babcock & Wilcox boilers with [210]
Value of diffusion [207]
Barium carbonate in feed water treatment [106]
Barium hydrate in feed water treatment [106]
Barrus draft gauge [254]
Bituminous coal, classification of [167]
Combustion rates with [246]
Composition of [177]
Distribution of [168]
Firing methods [193]
Semi [166]
Sizes of [191]
Thickness of fire with [193]
Blast furnace gas, burners for [228]
Combustion of [228]
Composition of [227]
Stacks for [228]
Boiler, Blakey’s [23]
Brickwork, care of [307]
Circulation of water in steam [28]
Compounds [109]
Development of water tube [23]
Eve’s [24]
Evolution of Babcock & Wilcox [39]
Fire tube, compared with water tube [61]
Guerney’s [24]
Horse power [263]
Loads, economical [283]
Perkins’ [24]
Room piping [108]
Room practice [297]
Rumsey’s [23]
Stevens’, John [23]
Stevens’, John Cox [23]
Units, number of [289]
Units, size of [289]
Wilcox’s [25]
Woolf’s [23]
Boilers, capacity of [278]
Care of [291]
Efficiency of [256]
Horse power of [265]
Operation of [291]
Requirements of steam [27]
Testing [267]
Boiling point [86]
Of various substances [86]
Of water as affected by altitude [97]
Brick, fire [304]
Arches [305]
Classification of [304]
Compression of [303]
Expansion of [303]
Hardness of [303]
Laying up [305] [Pg 332]
Nodules, ratio of [303]
Nodules, size of [303]
Plasticity of [302]
Brick, red [302]
Brickwork, care of [307]
British thermal unit [83]
[Burners] , blast furnace gas [228]
By-product coke oven gas [231]
Natural gas [231]
Oil [217]
Oil, capacity of [221]
Oil, mechanical atomizing [219]
Oil, operation of [223]
Oil, steam atomizing [218]
Oil, steam consumption of [220]
Burning hydrogen, loss due to moisture formed in [261]
By-product coke oven gas burners [231]
By-product coke oven gas, combustion of [231]
By-product coke oven gas, composition and heat value of [231]
Calorie [83]
Calorific value (see [Heat value] ).
Calorimeter, coal, Mahler bomb [184]
Mahler bomb, method of correction [187]
Mahler bomb, method of operation of [185]
Calorimeter, steam, compact type of throttling [132]
Correction for [131]
Location of nozzles for [134]
Normal reading [131]
Nozzles [134]
Separating [133]
Throttling [129]
Capacity of boilers [264] , [278]
As affecting economy [276]
Economical loads [283]
With bagasse [210]
With blast furnace gas [228]
With coal [280]
With oil fuel [224]
Capacity of natural gas burners [229]
Capacity of oil burners [221]
Carbon dioxide in flue gases [154]
Unreliability of readings taken alone [162]
Carbon, fixed [165]
Incomplete combustion of, loss due to [158]
Monoxide, heat value of [151]
Monoxide, in flue gases [155]
Unconsumed in ash, loss due to [261]
Care of boilers when out of service [300]
Casings, boilers [307]
Causticity of feed water [103]
Testing for [105]
Celsius thermometer scale [79]
Centigrade thermometer scale [79]
Chain grate stoker, Babcock & Wilcox [194]
Chemicals required in feed water treatment [105]
Chimney gases, losses in [158] , [159]
[Chimneys] (see [Draft] ).
Correction in dimensions for altitude [248]
Diameter of [243]
Draft available from [241]
Draft loss in [239]
For blast furnace gas [253]
For oil fuel [251]
For wood fuel [254]
Height of [243]
Horse power they will serve [250]
Circulation of water in Babcock & Wilcox boilers [57] , [66]
Of water in steam boilers [28]
Results of defective [62] , [66] , [67]
Classification of coals [166]
Fire brick [304]
Feed water difficulties [100]
Fuels [165]
Cleaners, turbine tube [299]
Cleaning, ease of, Babcock & Wilcox boilers [73]
Closed feed water heaters [111]
Coal, Alaska [169]
Analyses and heat value [177]
Analysis, proximate [176]
Analysis, ultimate [173]
Anthracite [166]
Bituminous [167]
Cannel [167]
Classification of [165] , [166]
Combustion of [190]
Comparison with oil [214]
Consumption, increase due to superheat [139]
Distribution of [167]
Formation of [165]
Lignite [167]
Records [293]
Semi-anthracite [166]
Semi-bituminous [166]
Sizes of anthracite [190]
Sizes of bituminous [191]
Code of A. S. M. E. for boiler testing [267]
Coefficient of expansion of various substances [87]
Coke [171]
Oven gas, by-product, burners [231]
Oven gas, by-product, combustion of [231]
Oven gas, by-product, composition and heat value of [231]
Coking method of firing [195]
Color as indication of temperature [91]
Combination furnaces [224]
Combustible in fuels [150]
Combustion [150]
Air required for [152] , [156]
Air supplied for [157]
Combustion of coal [190]
Of gaseous fuels [227]
Of liquid fuels [212]
Of solid fuels other than coal [201]
Composition of bagasse [205]
Blast furnace gas [227]
By-product coke oven gas [231]
Coals [177]
Natural gas [229]
Oil [213]
Wood [201]
Compounds, boiler [109]
Compressibility of water [97]
Compression of fire brick [303]
Condensation, effect of superheated steam on [140]
In steam pipes [313]
Consumption, heat, of engines [141]
Correction, stem, for thermometers [80]
For normal reading in steam calorimeter [131]
For radiation, bomb calorimeter [187]
Corrosion [101] , [106]
Coverings, pipe [315]
Cross drum, Babcock & Wilcox boiler [52] , [53] , [60]
Dry steam with [71]
[Draft] area as affecting economy in Babcock & Wilcox boilers [70]
Available from chimneys [241]
Draft loss in chimneys [239]
Loss in boilers [245]
Loss in flues [243]
Loss in furnaces [245]
Draft required for anthracite [246]
Required for various fuels [246]
Drums, Babcock & Wilcox, cross [53]
Cross, boxes [50]
Heads [49]
Longitudinal [49]
Manholes [49]
Nozzles on [50]
Dry steam in Babcock & Wilcox boilers [71]
Density of gases [147]
Steam [115]
Dulong’s formula for heating value [173]
Ebullition, point of [86] [Pg 333]
Economizers [111]
Efficiency of boilers, chart of [258]
Combustible basis [256]
Dry coal basis [256]
Increase in, due to superheaters [139]
Losses in (see [Heat balance] ) [259]
Testing [267]
Test vs. operating [278]
Variation in, with capacity [284]
With coal [288]
With oil [224]
Ellison draft gauge [254]
Engine, Hero’s [13]
Engines, superheated steam with [141]
Equivalent evaporation from and at 212 degrees [116]
Eve’s boiler [24]
Evolution of Babcock & Wilcox boiler [39]
Exhaust steam from auxiliaries [113]
Expansion, coefficient of [87]
Of fire brick [303]
Of pipe [315]
Pyrometer [89]
Factor of evaporation [117]
Fahrenheit thermometer scale [79]
Fans, use of, in waste heat work [233]
[Feed water] , air in [106]
As affecting capacity [279]
Boiler [100]
Feed water heaters, closed [111]
Economizers [111]
Open [111]
Feed water heating, methods of [111]
Saving by [110]
Feed water, impurities in [100]
Lines [312]
Method of feeding [110]
Feed water treatment [102]
Chemical [102]
Chemical, lime and soda process [102]
Chemical, lime process [102]
Chemical, soda process [102]
Chemicals used in lime and soda process [105]
Combined heat and chemical [105]
Heat [102]
Less usual reagents [106]
Firing, advantages of stoker [195]
Methods for anthracite [190]
Bituminous [193]
Lignite [195]
Fittings, handhole in Babcock & Wilcox boilers [50] , [51]
Pipe [311]
Superheated steam [145]
With Babcock & Wilcox boilers [55]
Fixtures with Babcock & Wilcox boilers [55]
Flanges, pipe [309]
Flow of steam into pressure above atmosphere [317]
Into the atmosphere [328]
Through orifices [317]
Through pipes [317]
[Flue gas] analysis [155]
Conversion of volumetric to weight [161]
Methods of making [160]
Object of [155]
Orsat apparatus [159]
Flue gas, composition of [155]
Losses in [158] , [159]
Weight per pound of carbon in fuel [158]
Weight per pound of fuel [158]
Weight resulting from combustion [157]
Foaming [102] , [107]
Fuel analysis, proximate [176]
Ultimate [173]
Fuel calorimeter, Mabler bomb [184]
Tests, method of making [186]
Fuels, classification of [165]
Gaseous, and their combustion [227]
Fuels, liquid, and their combustion [212]
Solid, coal [190]
Solid, other than coal [201]
Furnace, bagasse [209]
Blast furnace gas [228]
By-product coke oven gas [231]
Combination wood and oil [225]
Efficiency of [283]
Natural gas [229]
Peabody oil [222]
Webster [55]
Wood burning [201] , [202]
Galvanic action [107]
Gas, blast furnace, burners [228]
Combustion of [228]
Composition of [227]
Gas, by-product coke oven, burners [231]
Combustion of [231]
Composition of and heat value [231]
Gas, natural, burners [229]
Combustion of [229]
Composition and heat value of [229]
Gases, chimney, losses in [158] , [159]
Density of [163]
Flue (see [Flue gases] ).
Path of in Babcock & Wilcox boilers [57]
Waste (see [Waste heat] ) [232]
Gaskets [312]
Gauges, draft, Barrus [254]
Ellison [255]
Peabody [255]
U-tube [254]
Gauges, vacuum [117]
Grate ratio for anthracite [191]
Gravity of oils [214]
Grooving [102]
Guerney’s boiler [24]
Handhole fittings for Babcock & Wilcox boilers [50] , [51]
Handholes in Babcock & Wilcox boilers [50] , [51]
Hardness of boiler feed water [102]
Permanent [102]
Temporary [102]
Testing for [105]
Hardness of fire brick [303]
Heat and chemical methods of treating feed water [105]
And its measurement [79]
[Balance] [262]
Consumption of engines [141]
Latent [84]
Of liquid [120]
Sensible [84]
Specific (see [Specific heat] ) [83]
Total [86]
Transfer [323]
[Heat value] of bagasse [205]
By-product coke oven gas [231]
Coal [177]
Heat value of fuels, determination of [173]
Determination of Kent’s approximate method [183]
High and low [174]
Heat value of natural gas [229]
Oil [215]
Wood [201]
Heat waste (see [Waste heat] ) [232]
Heaters, feed water, closed [111]
Economizers [111]
Open [111]
Heating feed water, saving by [110]
Hero’s engine [13]
High and low heat value of fuels [174]
High pressure steam, advantages of use of [119]
High temperature measurements, accuracy of [89]
Horse power, boiler [265]
Evaporation (actual) corresponding to [288]
Rated boiler [265]
Stacks for various, of boilers [250]
Hydrogen in flue gases [156]
Ice, specific heat of [99] [Pg 334]
“Idalia”, tests with superheated steam on yacht [143]
Impurities in boiler feed water [100]
Incomplete combustion of carbon, loss due to [158]
Injectors, efficiency of [112]
Relative efficiency of, and pumps [112]
Iron alum in feed water treatment [106]
Kent, Wm., determination of heat value from analysis [183]
Stack table [250]
Kindling point [150]
Latent heat [84] , [115]
Laying of fire brick [305]
Red brick [305]
Lignite, analyses of [181]
Combustion of [195]
Lime and soda treatment of boiler feed [102]
Used in chemical treatment of feed [105]
Lime treatment of boiler feed water [102]
Liquid fuels and their combustion [212]
Loads, economical boiler [283]
Losses due to excess air [158]
Due to unburned carbon [158]
Due to unconsumed carbon in the ash [261]
Losses in efficiency (see [Heat balance] ).
In flue gases [158] , [159]
Low water in boilers [298]
Melting points of metals [91]
Mercurial pyrometers [89]
Moisture in coal, determination of [176]
In fuels, losses due to [259]
In steam, determination of [129]
Mud drum of Babcock & Wilcox boiler [51]
Napier’s formula for flow of steam [321]
Natural gas, burners for [229]
Combustion of [229]
Composition and heat value of [229]
Nitrate of silver in testing feed water [105]
Nitrogen, as indication of excess air [157]
In air [147]
In flue gases [157]
Nodules, fire brick, ratio of [303]
Size of [303]
Normal reading, throttling calorimeter [131]
Nozzles, steam sampling for calorimeter [134]
Location of [134]
Oil fuel, burners (see [Burners] ).
Capacity with [224]
Combustion of [217]
Comparison with coal [214]
Composition and heat value of [213]
Efficiency with [224]
Furnaces for [221]
Gravity of [214]
In combination with other fuels [224]
Stacks for [251]
Tests with [224]
Open hearth furnace, Babcock & Wilcox boiler set for utilizing waste heat from [236]
Open heaters, feed water [111]
Operation of boilers [291]
Optical pyrometers [91]
Orsat apparatus [160]
Oxalate of soda in feed water treatment [106]
Oxygen in air [147]
Flue gases [155]
Peabody draft gauge [255]
Formulae for coal calorimeter correction [188]
Furnace for oil fuel [221] , [222]
Oil burner [218]
Peat [167]
Perkins’ boiler [24]
Pfaundler’s method of coal calorimeter radiation correction [187]
Pipe coverings [315]
Data [308]
Expansion of [315]
Pipe fittings [311]
Flanges [309]
Flow of steam through [317]
Radiation from bare and covered [314]
Sizes [312]
Supports for [315]
Piping, boiler room [308]
Pitting [102]
Plant records, coal [293]
Draft [294]
Temperature [294]
Water [293]
Plasticity of fire brick [302]
Pressed fuels [171]
Priming in boilers [102]
Methods of treating for [107]
Properties of water [96]
Proximate analyses of coal [177]
Proximate analysis [173]
Method of making [176]
Pulverized fuels [170]
Pump, efficiency of feed [112]
Pyrometers, expansion [89]
Mercurial [89]
Optical [91]
Radiation [90]
Thermo-electric [90]
Quality of steam [129]
Radiation correction for coal calorimeter [187] , [188]
Correction for steam calorimeter [131]
Effect of superheated steam on [140]
From pipes [314]
Losses in efficiency due to [307]
Pyrometers [90]
Ratio of air supplied to that required for combustion [157]
Reagents, less usual in feed treatment [106]
Records, plant, coal [293]
Draft [294]
Temperature [294]
Water [293]
Requirements of steam boilers [27]
As indicated by evolution of Babcock & Wilcox [45]
Rumsey’s boiler [23]
Safety of Babcock & Wilcox boilers [66]
Salts responsible for scale [101]
Solubility of [101]
Sampling coal [271]
Nozzles for steam [134]
Nozzles for steam, location of [134]
Steam [134]
Steam, errors in [135]
Saturated air [149]
Saving by heating feed [110]
With superheat in “Idalia” tests [143]
With superheat in prime movers [140] , [142]
Scale (see [Thermometers] ) [101]
Sea water, composition of [97]
Sections, Babcock & Wilcox boiler [50]
Selection of boilers [277]
Sensible heat [84]
Separating steam calorimeter [132]
Sizes of anthracite coal [190]
Bituminous coal [191]
Smoke, methods of eliminating [197]
Smokelessness, relative nature of [197]
With hand-fired furnaces [199]
With stoker-fired furnaces [199]
Soda, lime and, treatment of feed [103]
Oxalate of, in treatment of feed [106]
Removal of scale aided by [300]
Silicate of, in treatment of feed [106]
Treatment of boiler feed [103]
Space occupied by Babcock & Wilcox boilers [66]
[Specific heat] [83]
Specific heat of air [148]
Ice [99]
Saturated steam [99]
Specific heat of superheated steam [137] [Pg 335]
Various solids, liquids and gases [85]
Water [99]
Spreading method of firing [193]
Stacks and draft (see [Chimneys] ) [237]
Stacks for blast furnace gas [228]
Oil fuel [251]
Wood [202] , [254]
Stayed surfaces, absence of, in Babcock & Wilcox boilers [69]
Difficulties arising from use of [67]
Steam [115]
As aid to combustion of anthracite [191]
As aid to combustion of lignite [195]
Consumption of prime movers [289]
Density of [115]
Flow of, into atmosphere [320]
Flow of, into pressure above atmosphere [318]
Flow of, through pipes [317]
High pressure, advantage of [119]
History of generation and use of [13]
Making, theory of [92]
Moisture in [129]
Properties of, for vacuum [119]
Properties of saturated [122]
Properties of superheated [125]
Quality of [129]
Saturated [115]
Specific heat of saturated [99]
Specific heat of superheated [137]
Specific volume of [115]
Superheated [137]
Superheaters (see [Superheated steam] ).
Steaming, quick, with Babcock & Wilcox boilers [73]
Stem Correction, thermometer [80]
Stevens, John, boiler [23]
Stevens, John Cox, boiler [23]
Stokers, automatic, advantages of [195]
Babcock & Wilcox chain grate [194]
Overfeed [196]
Smokelessness with [199]
Traveling grate [197]
Underfeed [196]
[Superheated steam] [137]
Additional fuel for [139]
Effect on condensation [140]
Effect on radiation [140]
Fittings for use with [145]
“Idalia” tests with [143]
Specific heat of [137]
Variation in temperature of [145]
With turbines [142]
Superheater, Babcock & Wilcox [136]
Effect of on boiler efficiency [139]
Supports, Babcock & Wilcox boiler [52] , [53]
Tan bark [210]
Tar, water gas [225]
Temperature, accuracy of high, measurements [89]
As indicated by color [91]
Of waste gases [232]
Records [294]
Test conditions vs. operating conditions [278]
Testing, boiler, A. S. M. E. code for [267]
Tests of Babcock & Wilcox boilers with bagasse [210]
Coal [280]
Oil [224]
Theory of steam making [92]
Thermo-electric pyrometers [90]
[Thermometer scale] , celsius [79]
Thermometer scale, centigrade [76]
Fahrenheit [79]
Réaumur [79]
Thermometer scales, comparison of [80]
Conversion of [80]
Thermometer stem correction for [80]
Thermometers, glass for [79]
Throttling calorimeter [129]
Total heat [86] , [115]
Treatment of boiler feed water (see [Feed water] ) [102]
Chemicals used in [105]
Less usual reagents in [106]
Tube data [309]
Doors in Babcock & Wilcox boilers [53]
Tubes in Babcock & Wilcox boilers [50]
Ultimate analyses of coal [183]
Analysis of fuels [173]
Unaccounted losses in efficiency [261]
Unconsumed carbon in ash [261]
Units, boiler, number of [289]
Size of [289]
Units, British thermal [83]
Unreliability of CO 2 readings alone [162]
Vacuum gauges [117]
Properties of steam for [119]
Valves used with superheated steam [312]
Variation in properties of saturated steam [119]
Superheat from boilers [145]
Volume of air [147]
Water [96]
Volume, specific, of steam [115]
[Waste heat] , auxiliary grates with boilers for [235]
Babcock & Wilcox boilers set for use with [236]
Boiler design for [233]
Curve of temperature, heat absorption, and heating surface [235]
Draft for [233]
Fans for use with [233]
Power obtainable from [232]
Temperature of, from various processes [232]
Utilization of [232]
Water, air in boiler feed [106]
Boiling points of [97]
Compressibility of [97]
Water feed, impurities in [100]
Methods of feeding to boiler [132]
Saving by heating [110]
Treatment (see [Feed water] ).
Water-gas tar [225]
Heat of the liquid [120]
Path of, in Babcock & Wilcox boilers [57]
Properties of [96]
Records [293]
Specific heat of [99]
Volume of [96]
Weight of [96] , [120]
Watt, James [17]
Weathering of coal [169]
Webster furnace [55]
Weight of air [147]
Wilcox boiler [25]
Wood, combustion of dry [202]
Wet [203]
Composition and heat value of [201]
Furnace design for [201]
Moisture in [201]
Sawmill refuse [202]
Woolf s boiler [24]
Zero, absolute [81]