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Title: American engineer and railroad journal
Year: 1893 (1890s)
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Subjects: Railroad engineering Engineering Railroads Railroad cars
Publisher: New York : M.N. Forney
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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s attentiononly for the supply of chemicals and for cleaning out. A rep-resentative of this journal recently made a thorough examina-tion of this plant and a description will undoubtedly interestour readers, because of the necessity for securing good boilerwater under present conditions of locomotive service. It isunnecessary to present the reasons for this, because our read-ers undoubtedly appreciate the effect of bad water upon thefuel account, the cost of repairs and the continuity of serviceof locomotives, which is such an important item when busi-ness is so heavy. The accompanying engraving illustrates the construction andoperation of the machine at Buda. The apparatus is containedin and mounted on a cylindrical shell about 12 ft. in diameterand about 40 ft. high. This is mounted on a concrete founda-tion and is located near three elevated storage tanks havingcombined capacity of about 170,000 gals. An 8-ln. pipe, reach-lag ever th« top of the cylinder, brings the raw water from
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MM itHtmr Section ef Purifier, NovBMBBEri90i. AMERICAN ENGINEER AND RAILROAD JOURNAL. 346 Coal Creek, a distance of 1% miles, the pump being locatedat the creek. Some of the water is from the surface, but mostof it is from springs, the supply being permanent. Over thissic lion of the road soda ash has been used in the tenders forsome time, but engines taking water at this point have dis-i ontinued its use. The water to be treated is brought to the center of the ver-tical cylinder, where it discharges into a hard-water box,shown in the engraving. From this box the water, on its wayto the. purifier, turns a water wheel from which the power re-quired for the machine is derived. After leaving the wheelit passes to the top of the settling cone. At this point it ismixed with the treating solutions, which, in this case, arelimewater and soda. Upon mixing with the chemicals lime,magnesia, iron, alumina and a portion of the silica (if the wa-ter contains it) begin to settle out, and the proces

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