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Water works pumping plants have recently undergone a rapid and radical evolution. The tremendous triple-expansion pumping engine has, in many cases, given place to the more compact steam - turbine - driven centrifugal pump. The efficiency of the latter has risen steadily with the experience of its builders and with improvements in auxiliary equipment, until duties under standard steam conditions exceeding 150,000,000 ft. lb. per 1,000 lb. of steam are now obtained. The DeLaval Steam Turbine Company, of Trenton, N. J., builders of the largest pumps of this type, have just issued, under the title “Progress in Water Works Pumps,” a 48-page booklet discussing the general economic and engineering conditions affecting the design and installation of such pumps. Installations in fifteen of the principal cities of this country and Canada are described, including thirty-four units aggregating 999,000,000 gallons per day capacity. The publication should be of value to anyone interested in the handling of water in large quantities.
Water works pumping plants have recently undergone a rapid and radical evolution. The tremendous triple-expansion pumping engine has, in many cases, given place to the more compact steam - turbine - driven centrifugal pump. The efficiency of the latter has risen steadily with the experience of its builders and with improvements in auxiliary equipment, until duties under standard steam conditions exceeding 150,000,000 ft. lb. per 1,000 lb. of steam are now obtained. The DeLaval Steam Turbine Company, of Trenton, N. J., builders of the largest pumps of this type, have just issued, under the title “Progress in Water Works Pumps,” a 48-page booklet discussing the general economic and engineering conditions affecting the design and installation of such pumps. Installations in fifteen of the principal cities of this country and Canada are described, including thirty-four units aggregating 999,000,000 gallons per day capacity. The publication should be of value to anyone interested in the handling of water in large quantities.
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