Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A hot spring, especially one at whose orifice there is a pool of relatively quiet water.
- noun In a condensing steam-engine, a reservoir for receiving the warm water which the air-pump draws off from the condenser.
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Examples
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Mr. Darnel did not die immediately of his wounds, but he lingered a long time, as it were in the arms of death, and even partly recovered, yet, in all probability, he will never be wholly restored to the enjoyment of his health, and is obliged every summer to attend the hot-well at Bristol.
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The foregoing remarks would not apply to those cases in which the gland supply is drawn from and returned to the hot-well, or a pipe leading from the hot-well.
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It does, however, increase the quantity of water to be handled from the hot-well, and incidentally lowers the temperature there, which, whether the feed-water pass through economizers or otherwise, is not advisable from an economical standpoint.
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There are two highly important features requiring more or less constant attention throughout a test, namely the gland and hot-well regulation.
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The latter were each of 1500-kilowatt capacity, and were connected to surface condensers, dry-vacuum pumps, centrifugal, hot-well and circulating pumps, respectively.
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All steam supplied to the turbine obviously goes to swell the hot-well contents, and to thus increase the total steam consumption.
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Under conditions similar to those operating in a plant such as that shown in Fig. 72, the necessary boiler feed might be drawn from the hot-well, the remainder of the hot-well contents probably being pumped through water coolers, or towers, for circulating through the condenser.
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When the turbine glands are sealed with water, all water leakage which takes place into the turbine, and ultimately to the condenser hot-well, must be measured and subtracted from the hot-well contents at the end of
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With the very best system, it is possible for a slight quantity of oil to leak into the exhaust steam, and thence to the hot-well.
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The inlet pipes H I are placed directly above the outlet valves, and thus, when required, before any measurements are taken, the water can flow directly through the outlet valves, the pipes terminating only a short distance above them, away to an auxiliary tank or directly to the hot-well.
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