Gas-Engines and Producer-Gas Plants by Mathot

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Gas-Engines and Producer-Gas Plants

A PRACTICE TREATISE SETTING FORTH THE PRINCIPLES OF GAS-ENGINES AND PRODUCER DESIGN, THE SELECTION AND INSTALLATION OF AN ENGINE, CONDITIONS OF PERFECT OPERATION, PRODUCER-GAS ENGINES AND THEIR POSSIBILITIES, THE CARE OF GAS-ENGINES AND PRODUCER-GAS PLANTS, WITH A CHAPTER ON VOLATILE HYDROCARBON AND OIL ENGINES

BY R. E. MATHOT, M.E.

Member of the Societe des Ingenieurs Civils de France, Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Association des Ingenieurs de l'Ecole des Mines du Hainaut of Brussels

TRANSLATED FROM ORIGINAL FRENCH MANUSCRIPT BY WALDEMAR B. KAEMPFFERT

WITH A PREFACE BY DUGALD CLERK, M. INST. C.E., F.C.S.

ILLUSTRATED

NEW YORK MUNN & COMPANY OFFICE OF THE SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN 361 BROADWAY 1905

PREFACE TO

"MATHOT'S GAS-ENGINES AND PRODUCER-GAS PLANTS"

DUGALD CLERK, M. INST.C.E., F.C.S.

Mr. Mathot, the author of this interesting work, is a well-known Belgian engineer, who has devoted himself to testing and reporting upon gas and oil engines, gas producers and gas plants generally for many years past. I have had the pleasure of knowing Mr. Mathot for many years, and have inspected gas-engines with him. I have been much struck with the ability and care which he has devoted to this subject. I know of no engineer more competent to deal with the many minute points which occur in the installation and running of gas and oil engines. I have read this book with much interest and pleasure, and I consider that it deals effectively and fully with all the principal detail points in the installation, operation, and testing of these engines. I know of no work which has gone so fully into the details of gas-engine installation and up-keep. The work clearly points out all the matters which have to be attended to in getting the best work from any gas-engine under the varying circumstances of different installations and conditions. In my view, the book is a most useful one, which deserves, and no doubt will obtain, a wide public recognition.

DUGALD CLERK.

_March, 1905._

INTRODUCTION

The constantly increasing use of gas-engines in the last decade has led to the invention of a great number of types, the operation and care of which necessitate a special practical knowledge that is not exacted by other motors, such as steam-engines.

Explosion-engines, driven by illuminating-gas, producer-gas, oil, benzin, alcohol and the like, exact much more care in their operation and adjustment than steam-engines. Indeed, steam-engines are regularly subjected to comparatively low pressures. The temperature in the cylinders, moreover, is moderate.

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