 | Royal Institution of Naval Architects - 1875 - 350 páginas
...compound engine lies. When steam does work by expansion, the quantity of heat extracted from it is sufficient, not only to lower the temperature of the...to that corresponding to its lowered pressure, but also to cause a portion of it to liquefy. When the communication to the condenser is opened, and the... | |
 | William John Macquorn Rankine - 1883 - 116 páginas
...down as a fundamental principle in all, or almost all, writings on the theory of the steam-engine. One of the earliest consequences deduced from the...into the liquid state. The steam thus spontaneously liquified collects in the form of water in the cylinder; and if the cylinder and piston were made of... | |
 | William Barnet Le Van - 1889 - 524 páginas
...in the compound engine. When steam does work by expansion, the quantity of heat derived from it is sufficient, not only to lower the temperature of the steam to that corresponding to its decreased pressure, but also to cause a portion of it to liquefy. When the communication to the condenser... | |
 | Andrew Jamieson - 1889 - 532 páginas
...work by the steam causes an equivalent loss of heat, and the amount of heat transformed into work, is sufficient, not only to lower the temperature of the steam to that corresponding to its reduced pressure, but also to cause liquefaction of a portion of it. When a small portion liquefies,... | |
 | Andrew Jamieson - 1897 - 658 páginas
...work by the steam causes an equivalent loss of heat, and the amount of heat transformed into work, is sufficient, not only to lower the temperature of the steam to that corresponding to its reduced pressure, but also to cause liquefaction of a portion of it. When a small portion liquefies,... | |
 | Henry Adams - 1907 - 594 páginas
...work by the steam causes an equivalent loss of heat, and the amount of heat transformed into work is sufficient not only to lower the temperature of the steam to that corresponding to its reduced pressure, but also to cause liquefaction of a portion of it. When a small portion liquefies,... | |
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... expands in a nonconducting cylinder, and during its expansion performs mechanical •work, its pressure falls — (1) On account of increase of volume; (2) because of liquefaction. The performance of work by the steam causes an equivalent loss of... 