Year: 1908
Type: article
Abstract: circulation," which was intended to connote circulation which did not depend solely upon gravity.In the particular cases mentioned in the Paper reciprocating pumps were used, but in other cases centrifugal pumps, pulsometers, float-pumps, and steam-injectors had been used.H e did not advocate any particular system, but such large sums of money were spent on public institutions such as hospitals and asylums, that it appeared to him extremely important to select the system which, at the smallest initial cost and the lowest cost of maintenance, would give satisfactory eficiency.The Author then exhibited a series of lantern-slides illustrating the King Edward VI1 Sanatorium, the Royal Victoria Infirnary at Newcastle, and the Camberwell Infirmary.system of water-circulation by pumps, both for heating and for hotwater supplies.Under the old system, which obtained until quite lately, a calorifier was placed in each building, and in a very large institution that occupied one man's time in going round and seeing that things were always in working order.Under the newer system there were but three calorifiers in the whole institution, however big it might be-one for heating, one for hot water, and one a s a standloy in case either of the other two broke down.Engineers would appreciate the great advantage of that when they realized that the calorifiers were immediately under the eye of the engineer in his own enginehouse, with the result that no defect in the circulation could occur without his detecting it, and it could be remedied by the turn of a va.lve.With a duplicate system of ring mains the pumping was in reverse directions, and, with three-way valves, if any joint failed, the three-way valve was turned, and no part of the installation was put out of order, either in connection with the heating or the hotwater supply.That could not be the case where a single steam-main supplied a large institution.The pumping system had also the advantage that however extensive the circulation might be it was always possible to get the heat wherever it was required.The buildings of the Leeds City Hospital, which he had had the The AUTHOR remarked that on p. 94 he used the term "forced The Authur.Mr. EDWIX T. HALL desired to emphasize the importance of the Mr. Hall.
Authors: SIR W MATTHEWS, E R DOLBY, E T HALL, E G RIVERS, R BROWN, J S OWENS, C T A HANSSEN
Language: English
Subfield: Building and Construction
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2060425846