In discussing tho general methods of efficient working and control of
steam boiler-plants, with a view to attaining the maximum coal
economy, one of the chief points is to get the average steam user to
realise the large amount of the saving that can be affected by adopting
such scientific methods.
There has been recently a very large amount of lecturing and
writing on coal economy by many people, but most of this consists of
little more than pious platitudes, entirely unsupported by anything in
the nature of facts and original information. Whilst everyone is
decidedly of the opinion that boiler-plants generally are inefficient,
very little information is available as to how inefficient they are, tha