 | John Christie Douglas - Telegraph lines - 1875 - 464 pages
...description of ore. The mixture is placed in a furnace urged by a powerful blast of hot or cold air, the oxygen of the air combines with the carbon of the fuel to form carbonic acid; this is decomposed by the heat into carbonic oxide and oxygen, the oxygen of the iron... | |
 | Albert William Smith - Machinery - 1902 - 180 pages
...charged with charcoal into a rectangular hearth, and air-blast is supplied. The coal is ignited and the oxygen of the air combines with the carbon of the fuel to form CO2 , which passing on over more incandescent carbon is reduced to CO, which comes in contact with... | |
 | Agriculture - 1903 - 458 pages
...GENERAL CONSIDERATION OF FIRE. 23. Combustion. — In the combustion of fuel (charcoal, coal, or coke), the oxygen of the air combines with the carbon of the fuel. The chemical combination produces heat; the temperature attained depends on the rapidity with which... | |
 | Joseph Gregory Horner - Engineering - 1909 - 560 pages
...the producer obtained by passing air and steam through incandescent fuel are : — 2 = 2CO, In words, the oxygen of the air combines with the carbon of the fuel to form carbon monoxide. The steam with more carbon forms more monoxide and free hydrogen. Some marsh gas, CH4, and carbon dioxide,... | |
 | F. Noel Taylor - Civil engineering - 1911 - 902 pages
...reactions take 14,000 It ooo 10 000 BH P.. Fio. 594s. place, expressed by 2CO, which is to say that the oxygen of the air combines with the carbon of the fuel to form carbon monoxide ; the water splits up to form more CO and H. In addition, a certain amount of CH4 and CO, are formed,... | |
 | George Washington Danforth - Mechanical engineering - 1912 - 436 pages
...and rising through the zone of incandescent fuel. When the air and vapor become sufficiently heated, the oxygen of the air combines with the carbon of the fuel. The tendency of this combustion is to form CO 2 , but the relatively small quantity of oxygen carried... | |
 | Manfred Powis Bale - Engines - 1914 - 184 pages
...a uniform temperature. Two reactions take place, expressed by — 2C + O.2 = 2CO C + H2O = CO + Ha That is to say, the oxygen of the air combines with...carbon of the fuel to form carbon monoxide, and the water splits up to form more of the monoxide and free hydrogen. In addition to this, a certain amount... | |
 | John Willoughby Meares - Electric engineering - 1916 - 672 pages
...Ibs. of locomotive box char. Producer gas is made by passing air and steam through incandescent fuel ; the oxygen of the air combines with the carbon of...form carbon monoxide, and the steam together with carbon also forms carbon monoxide and free hydrogen. A certain amount of marsh gas and carbon dioxide... | |
 | Joseph Stephenson - Fuel - 1919 - 200 pages
...atmospheric air beneath the grate consists of one volume of oxygen to four volumes of nitrogen, and the oxygen of the air combines with the carbon of the fuel to form carbon dioxide, as follows C+O2 = CO2, the composition of the gas in the lowest zone of the fuel bed is: CO2... | |
 | 1906 - 520 pages
...incandescent fuel. Two simple reactions take place, expressed by : 2C + 02 = 2CO C + H3O = CO + H2 That is to say, the oxygen of the air combines with...carbon of the fuel to form carbon monoxide, and the water splits up to form more of the monoxide and free hydrogen. In addition to this, a certain amount... | |
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The oxygen of the air combines with the carbon of the fuel to form carbon monoxide, and the steam together with carbon also forms carbon monoxide and free hydrogen. 
