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5. If the flue gases are cooled down to 25C,, what will then be the percentage of
water vapor in them, and how many grams of H 2 O will have condensed per cubic
meter of dry gas (measured at standard conditions)?
34. Coke-oven gas used in firing an open-hearth steol furnace had the following

composition

Per Cent

CH
C H
H

3f>

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CO*

The products
The

cubic foot.

of
air

For Cent

CO
O

N
HO

12

2
2

combustion contained 4.4 g. of moisture (water vapor) ^in each

used for combustion carries moisture. 20 per cent excess air

was used

The
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saturation pressure for water vapor in the air at the temperature used

mm.

Barometer, 760

Required:

1.

combustion of
2.

The dry

The volume
cu. ft. of the

analysis

is

mm.

(?.r.,

of dry air (cubic

coke-oven gas.

excluding

all

the

feet)

HO
2

theoretically required for the

content) of the products of com-

bustion
3.

The grams

of moisture per cubic foot of the moist air,

and the percentage

humidity

35.

Pennsylvania coal has the following composition:

Per Cent
77 20

5 10

O
N

7 22
1 68

Per Cent

SI

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5.93

HO

Ash

It is burned with 60 per cent more air than theoretically required.

from the furnace amount to 9.30 per cent of the weight of the coal.

The ashes

Required. 1. The net calorific power of the coal in Calories per kilogram and in
B.t u. per pound.
2 The cubic meters of air used in combustion, per kilogram of coal.
3
1.

The percentage composition of the flue gases.

The moisture content of the flue gases, in grams per cubic meter and ingrains
,

per cubic foot.

36.

Pennsylvania coal has the following composition:

Per Cent
76 3

Per Cent

2 5

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HO

Ash

2
8 2

30

When

this was used in a furnace, the ashes contained 14.0 per cent unburned
30 per cent excess air was used. The temperature of the air was 25C.
barometer, 740 mm.; partial pressure of moisture in the air, 18 mm.

carbon.

Required: 1. The practical calorific power of the coal, in B.t.u. per pound, and the
percentage of it lost owing to unburned carbon in the ashes.
2. The cubic feet of air theoretically required, measured dry at standard conditions, per

pound

of coal.