"Although the whole plant represents good established modern practice, you will find some of the more modern processes and access sories absent; our steam pressure, 260 Ibs., is a medium one, cur super: heat is moderate, we "have not adopted forced draught or air preheating and we are not using pul-versed fuel; these were all considered, as was the replacement of plunger pumps by steam turbine driven centrifugals and the intrada:. tion of electric and oil drive, all were rejected in favour of 3 plant the efficient operation of which was ensy and not difficult and in which complication gave way to implieity.
"That these principles are sound is confirmed by the results just published of a new power station at Home which, by adopting prac-reminiscent of twenty—years ago, has beaten in economy of operation every other plant (except tone of seven times its size) in the British Istes although these pride themselves on being far more up to date.
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