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Engineering, Smoke Prevention 



and Metallurgy. 



CHEMICAL WORKS : Their Design, Erection, and Equip- 

 ment. By S. S. Dyson and S. S. Clarkson. Royal 8vo. 220 pp. 

 With Plates and Illustrations. Price 21s. net. (Post free, 21s. 6d. 

 home ; 22s. abroad.) [^ust p2ibllshed. 



Contents. 



Choice of Site— Notes on Materials used m Construction— First Principles in Laying out a 

 Works— Workshops— The Drainage System— Foundations— Retaining Walls— Fire Station 

 and Appliances— Fire Engines— Ambulance Brigade— The Power House, Valves— Flues, etc. 

 —Automatic Stokers— Steam Raising— Mechanical Stokers— Steam Engines— Sulphuric Acid 

 Plant— The Glover Tower— The Gay-Lussac Tower— Hydrochloric Acid Plant— Nitric Acid 

 Plant— Notes on High Explosives Plant— Sulphate of Ammonia Plant— The Still— The 

 Saturator— Notc-s on Artificial Manure Plant— Burners— Manure Dens— Mixers- General 

 Plant— Water-driven Centrifugals— Crystallization in Motion Plant— Acid Elevators— Osmose 

 or Dialysis Apparatus— Schuler's Porus Filter Plates— Pressure Filters for Acid Liquors- 

 Fused Silica Ware or " Vitreosil "—Homogeneously Lead-lined Pipes, etc.— Kestner's 

 " Climbing-Film " Evaporator. 



THE PREVENTION OF SMOKE. Combined with the 

 Economical Combustion of Fuel. By W. C. Popplewell, M.Sc, 

 A.M.Inst., C.E., Consulting Engineer. Forty-six Illustrations. 190 pp. 

 Demy 8vo. Price 7s. 6d. net. (Post free, 7s. lOd. home ; 8s. 3d. abroad.) 



Contents. 



Fuel and Combustion— Hand Firing in Boiler Furnaces— Stoking by Mechanical Means- 

 Powdered Fuel— Gaseous Fuel— Efficiency and Smoke Tests of Boilers— Some Standard 

 Smoke Trials— The Legal Aspect of the Smoke Question— The Best Means to be adopted for 

 the Prevention of Smoke — Index. 



GAS AND COAL DUST FIRING. A Critical Review of 

 the Various AppHances Patented in Germany for this purpose since 

 1885. By Albert Putsch. 130 pp. Demy 8vo. Translated from the 

 German. With 103 Illustrations. Price 5s. net. (Post free, 5s. 4d. 

 home; 5s. 6d. abroad.) 



Contents. 



Generators— Generators Employing Steam— Stirring and Feed Regulating Appliances- 

 Direct Generators— Burners— Regenerators and Recuperators — Glass Smelting Furnaces- 

 Metallurgical Furnaces — Pottery Furnace — Coal Dust Firing — Index. 



THE HARDENING AND TEMPERING OF STEEL 

 IN THEORY AND PRACTICE. By Fridolin Reiser. 

 Translated from the German of the Third Edition. Crown 8vo. 

 120 pp. Price 5s. net. (Post free, 5s. 3d. home; 5s. 4d. abroad.) 



Contents 

 steel— Clieniical and Physical Properties of Steel, and their Casual Connection- 

 Classification of Steel according to Use— Testing the Quality of Steel — SteeU 

 Hardening— Investigation of the Causes of Failure in Hardening— Regeneration of 

 Steel Spoilt in the Furnace— Welding Steel— Index. 



SIDEROLOGY: THE SCIENCE OF IRON (The Con- 

 stitution of Iron Alloys and Slags). Translated from German of 

 Hanns Freiherr v. Juptner. 350 pp. Demy 8vo. Eleven Plates 

 and Ten Illustrations. Price 10s. 6d. net. (Post free, lis. home; 

 lis. 6d. abroad.) 



EVAPORATING, CONDENSING AND COOLING AP- 

 PARATUS. Explanations, Formulae and Tables for Use 

 in Practice. By E. Hausbrand, Engineer. Translated by A. C. 

 Wright, M.A. (Oxon.), B.Sc. (Lond.). With Twenty-one Illustra- 

 tions and Seventy-six Tables. 400 pp. Demy 8vo. Price 10s. 6d. net. 

 (Post free, lis. home; lis. 6d. abroad.) 



Contents. 



i?eCoefficient of Transmission of Heat, k/, and the Mean Temperature Difference, Olm— 

 Parallel and Opposite Currents— Apparatus for Heating with Direct Fire — The Injection of 

 Saturated Steam— Superheated Steam— Evaporation by Means of Hot Liquids— The Trans- 

 ference of Heat in General, and Transference by means of Saturated Steam in Particular 

 —The Transference of Heat from Saturated Steam in Pipes (Coils) and Double Bottoms 

 —Evaporation in a Vacuum— The Multiple-effect Evaporator— Multiple-effect Evaporators 



