Abstract
THE bulk of this book is taken, up with descriptions of the Scarab burner and.its application during the war to kitchen ranges in Egypt. The relative prices of coal and oil fuel in Egypt make it a big advantage to employ the latter, and the Scarab burner appears to have been of great service on account of its simplicity of construction. In the hands of quite unskilled persons kitchen ranges fitted with this burner have given very little trouble, and show a large saving in the cost of fuel. Thus the Turf Club at Cairo spent £E13.75 Per week on coal and wood, and after conversion to oil fuel the weekly expenditure amounts to £E5.92. The drawing and descriptions of the burner -and of the methods of fitting it to ranges will be readily followed even by non-technical readers. Some chapters are o, in cluded on oil-firing steam boilers. It may be well to mention that a supply of compressed air is required this presented no difficulty in Cairo, since there is a public service of compressed air in connection with the main drainage system, and air was taken from the mains.
Oil Firing for Kitchen Ranges and Steam Boilers.
E. C.
Bowden-Smith
By. Pp. ix + 102. (London: Constable and Co., Ltd., 1920.) 9s. net.
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Oil Firing for Kitchen Ranges and Steam Boilers. Nature 109, 204 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/109204b0
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