Successful Industrial Energy Reduction Programs by Robert S. Curl

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Published by The Fairmont Press, Inc. 700 Indian Trail Lilburn, GA 30247 Printed in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 ISBN 0-88173-280-X FP ISBN 0-13-675059-1 PH While every effort is made to provide dependable information, the publisher, authors, and editors cannot be held responsible for any errors or omissions. Distributed by Prentice Hall PTR Prentice-Hall, Inc. A Simon & Schuster Company Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458 Prentice-Hall International (UK) Limited, London Prentice-Hall of Australia Pty.

This can be corrected by arranging the burner operation to force the hot gasses to create a circular motion. Page 22 Figure 3-1 Erratic steam flow, reduce peak with storage or pressure control. Another problem with such type of furnaces is that at the end of the heat, the door is kept wide open until the next batch of material is admitted. All the heat that was contained in the refractory and in the housing has cooled off and must be reheated. Even the use of some of ceramic wall materials, although they are quick to change temperature, still need quite a bit of fuel to raise the temperature up to the operating condition.

Until I was ten, I lived upstairs over my father's shoe shop and I could reach out the window and shake hands with the engineer of the New York Central Railroad which was going by just five feet from our building. Back in the Depression, I was fortunate. My father was able to help me through college and I graduated from Case Western Reserve University as a chemical engineer in 1933, which, during the Great Depression, was a job with very few openings. I was offered a job in Liberia to oversee a rubber plantation.

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