Marine Gas Engines.

Progress, Volume II, Issue I, 1 November 1906, Page 12

Marine Gas Engines.

Herr Emil Capitaine, of Reisholz, near Dusseldorf, explains in his specification, No. 22,594 (Eng.) of 1905, his method of utilising the waste heat of marine gas engines for the production of steam from sea water for feeding gas generators. The employment of gas engines and producers for sea vessels necessitates the production of a large quantity of steam for decomposition in the generator. The tubular boiler for the supply of steam is heated by the exhaust gases from the gas engine or by the hot gases from the producer. The boiler is constructed with a coil surrounding it, to which the sea water is first admitted, so that the heat of the discharging and only slightly concentrated sea water is, with the aid of a regenerator, given off to the cold incoming sea water.