This third volume subtitled “Boilers, Fireboxes and Combustion” includes 19 papers as follows:
Boilers:
- Notes on responsiveness to quick load changes of a boiler when burning wood;
- On the Hudson-Orrok heat transfer equation as applied to locomotive boilers;
- A new superheater-economizer element for advanced steam loco technology;
- Improvements to superheater element joints for advanced steam locos;
- What steam pressure for old locomotive boilers?
Fireboxes
- Notes on firebox construction for loco boilers working at 30 and 60 atm. pressure;
- Note on burnout heat transfer;
- Thermo-mechanical behaviour of the steam locomotive firebox – an overall view;
- The worm grate and ash disposal system;
- Note on the present status of the grate design in connection with the GPCS;
- An essay on steam locomotive boiler tubeplate birdnesting (ash fouling);
Combustion
- Combustion calculations – the Heat Balance – a criticism of the Lawford Fry method;
- Hand firing in connection with the Gas Producer Combustion System;
- Note on combustion efficiency of the Gas Producer Combustion System;
- The GPCS as an answer to coal-derived pollution from steam locomotives;
- Locomotive type boiler for bagasse, peat and wood refuse burning;
- Application of the Gas Producer Combustion System to the 141R;
- A note on the Gas Producer Combustion System with fluidized bed conditions;
- Comments on a paper by G.G. Thurlow on fluidised bed combustion.
The book fills 290 A4 pages including numerous black and white images.
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