Excerpt from Power Gas Producers: Their Design and Application, With 105 Illustrations

The gas engine coupled with its own gas producer has now taken so important a position as means of deriving cheap power that it has become necessary for the engineer to acquire a knowledge of their principles as one of those subjects with which he must essentially be familiar. It is hoped that this book may prove an aid to those who are seeking up-to-date information, not only as it provides a fairly complete memorandum of the practice at present obtaining amongst the leading English makers of power gas producers, but also in the attempt which has been made to trace that connection between theoretical considerations and actual practice which should underlie all sound design. The scheme adopted therefore in each section of the book is firstly to indicate the theory of the subject as at present understood and then to shew how that theory is applied more or less by different makers in the construction of the gas plants they manufacture, after which typical examples of actual installations are described as shewing how power gas is being introduced at the present time.

It is perhaps difficult for anyone like myself, daily engaged in furthering the interests of one firm, whose productions are constantly being offered to the public in competition with those of other makers, to impartially review the work of the latter, but I hope it will be considered that I have not greatly erred in this respect.

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