262 OPERATIONS OF FUEL-TESTING PLANT IN 1905. 
STEAMING TESTS. 
Test 17^, Brazil >"o. 1. 
Size as used (average diameter). 1.42 inches. 
Duration of test, 5.35 hours. Kind of grate, plain. 
Test 173, Brazil No. 1. 
Size as used (average diameter), 1.26 inches. 
Duration of test, 5.60 hours. Kind of grate, plain. 
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. 
Heating value of coal B. T. I'. per pound dry coal. 
Force of draft: 
Under stack 'lain per inch water. 
A bove fi re do . . . 
Furnace temperature °F. 
Dry coal used per square fool of grate surface per hour pounds. 
Equivalent water evaporated per square tool of water-heating surface per 
hour pounds 
Percentage of rated horsepower of i><>iier developed 
Water apparently evap > rated per pound of coal as fired pounds 
$Vater evaporated from and at 212° I".: 
Per pound of coal as fired do. I. 
Per pound of drj coal do... 
Per pound of combustible do... 
Kilici 'iicy of boiler, including grate percent. 
( oal .is fired: 
Per indicated horsepower hour pounds. 
Per elect rical horsepower hour do.. 
Dry coal: 
Per indisated horsepower hour do . - 
Per electrical horsepower hour do... 
Test L72. 
in. (I'.'N 
Test 173. 
9, 830 
ii.c,.-, 
0.59 
. It. 
" . 03 
1.900 
1,858 
22. 01 
24. 93 
2.62 
3.03 
73. 38 
85.0 
4.48 
4. 67 
5.16 
5.43 
5.80 
6. 09 
8.43 
8.94 
55. 85 
59.02 
5.48 
5.21 
6. 77 
6. 43 
4.88 
4. 04 
6.02 
5.73 
a Force. 1. 
\\ U.YSES. 
ProximaU . 
Moisture 
Volatile matter 
Fixed carbon 
Ash 
Sulphur. 
Tes1 17.'. 
10.92 
27.06 
37.49 
24.53 
Test 17:;. 
2. 69 
10.87 J 
26.00 \ 
"58.32 j 
24.81 
100.00 100.00 
4.04 
l 'ft > mate. a 
Carbon 
Hydrogen 
( >xygen 
Nitrogen 
Sulphur 
Ash 
Test 172. 
56.70 
3.71 
8.08 
.95 
3.02 
27. 54 
Test 173 
55.23 
3. HI 
.93 
4.53 
27.84 
a Figured from car sample. 
