The Modern Gas-Engine and the Gas-Producer (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Modern Gas-Engine and the Gas-ProducerIn the earlier stages of its development, the gas-engine was employed principally because of the convenience with which it could be installed for generating, economically, from high-priced fuels, limited demands for power, and its increasing employment on similar grounds is still insured. Any economy derived under these conditions is due to the decided economy of the engine, or due to the low cost of its installation, not to any economy with regard to the cost of the fuels consumed. Oi late years, however, a rapid and fortunate transformation with respect to the available gas-engine fuels has been effected, in that the retorted coal gas and other less available fuels have been replaced by inexpensive fuels, such as producer-gas, carbureted water gas, crude oil, etc. And blast-furnace gas and coke - oven gas have become available industrial fuels. Under these conditions, and particularly since the development of the engine into its modern types, the economy of the gas-engine has been proven, in practice as in theory, to exceed, by far, any the steam-engine could well be expected to give under the present temperature range of its cycle.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.