A Practical Manual On Sea Water Distillation
With A Description Of The Necessary Machinery For The Process

xviii CONTENTS. Sections. Action of Charcoal, ......... 5 Shape of Filter,...................................... 6 Fig. 19, shows a Type of Filter,...................... 7 Animal Charcoal lasts for a long time—Oil and grease should not enter—Note on Ozone, ........ 8 (6) Steam Pump. Junctions of—(1) Circulation; (2) FreshWater; (3) Brine; and (4) Feed Pump (sometimes),......................... 9 Pumps sometimes divided—(1 and 2) The Distiller Pump ; and (3) and (4) The Evaporator Pump,...................... 10 Board of Trade Requirement—Fire-pump, ..... 11 (c) Connections. Drawings showing same required, ...... 16 Size of Connecting Pipes............................. 17 Copper or Steel used,................................ 18 Tinning of Fresh Water Pipes,........................ 19 (</) Spare Gear. Classification of,....................................20 List of—for Evaporator, Distiller, Pump, and Heater, . . . 21, 22 (e) Cleaning of Apparatus. Scale on Evaporator Coils,........................... 23 How to clean off Scale,............................24-28 Passages, &c., also require cleaning,....................29, 30 Evaporator Casing, Deposits on, ....... 31 Board of Trade Rules. Summary of Rules,.................................... 32 Evaporator treated as a Boiler, ....... 33 34 Additional Rules,.................................... 35 Filter required, .......... 36 Boiler Steam not to go into Distiller, ...... 37 Relief Valve on Distiller Casing, ....... 38 List of Spare Gear, ......... 39 Rules of Admiralty, Lloyds, and Bureau Veritas referred to, . 40