Excerpt from The Calorific Power of Fuels: Founded on Scheurer-Kestner"s Pouvoir Calorifique Des Combustibles; With the Addition of a Very Full Collection of Tables of Heats of Combustion of Fuels, Solid, Liquid and Gaseous; To Which Is Also Appended the Report of the Committee on Boiler Tests Of

The books on fuels hitherto published in English, contain only a few scattered facts regarding their calorific powers, how they are obtained, and the practical use made of them. Quite frequently these books are consulted for these facts, and the information they do contain is utilized to its fullest extent. It was thought that a book especially devoted to this subject containing all the reliable data might be of interest, and in furtherance of that idea this book is published.

The work commenced as a translation of M. Scheurer-Kestner"s "Pouvoir Calorifique des Combustibles"; but changes became necessary to adapt it to American methods and data, and it was deemed advisable to simply use the skeleton of the work and fill it in, as considered best. Even this skeleton has hardly been preserved intact, as the arrangement of much of the material has been changed, many portions omitted, many new ones supplied, and in some of the original discussions the argument has been so changed as to point nearly opposite to that advocated by M. Scheurer-Kestner.

The work embraces only that portion of calorimetric determinations having a bearing on fuel values. A concise description is given of the leading calorimeters, those most commonly used being described more fully than the others, and some examples of working and calculations are added.

Coal being the principal fuel naturally receives more space than any of the others, and most of the examples and calculations are based on results from this fuel.

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