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August 18. 1904. 



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BOILER ON GROUND LEVEL. 



My boiler pit fills up above the grate 

 bars with seep water every time there 

 cornea a stiff rainfall. It seems out of 

 the question to find any way to keep the 

 water out without a big expense. I have 

 taken the boiler out of the pit and will 

 have to find some other way to heat the 

 greenhouse. I propose to set the boiler on 

 a level with the ground floor. I have a 

 two and one-half or three horse-power 

 gas or gasoline engine with a force 

 pump. Can I create suction enough to 

 drain the condensed steam from the 

 pipes into some sort of a receptacle or 

 tank placed below the water line in the 

 boiler and from this receptacle force the 

 water into the boiler with the same 

 pumpf The lines of pipes will have a 

 perfect gravity fall. The return pipe 

 will be on the bottom of the floor in the 

 engine room. I could use a steam trap 

 for low pressure but a first-class trap will 

 cost $75 or $100 and I can hardly see 

 my way to buy a trap inasmuch as I an- 

 ticipate changing the plant next year. 

 With a steam trap one has to always 

 have five or ten pounds of steam to show 

 on the gauge before the trap will do 

 good work. I heat with steam. 



E. E. O. 



By placing a reservoir of considerable 

 capacity, ^y thirty gallops or qiore, be- 

 low the level of the returns and connect- 

 ing same to a steam trap, not a "re- 

 turn steam trap, ' ' but simply a trap 

 which catches and condenses the steam so 

 that water only goes into the reservoir, 

 you can connect a force pump to the en- 

 gine so as to pump the condensation 

 from the hot well, or reservoir, and re- 

 turn it to the boiler. 



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Another plan which might be used is 

 to run the plant as a hot water plant 

 during mild weather and operate the 

 pump as above described during such 

 times as the hot water will not do the 

 work. The only loss with such a plan 

 would be the loss of water in the sys- 

 tem, which would have to be drawn off 

 each time the change was made. Valves 

 would have to be placed in the return 

 pipes so as to allow for a gravity cir- 

 culation while using hot water, which 

 would be closed and the condensation 

 caught in the reservoir and pumped into 

 the boiler during severe weather when 

 steam would be necessary. The one trou- 

 ble with any scheme which does not pro- 

 vide for a gravity system is that if the 

 pump fails to work the boiler may get 

 dry. As a temporary affair, however, the 

 pumping engine can be used. But un- 

 less some one is in constant attendance 

 there is more or less risk. Many large 

 plants, where firemen are constantly on 



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hand, use the pump exclusively. In fact, 

 in such cases it is really more economical 

 than to go to the expense of excavating 

 and building pits. L. C. C. 



