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ENGINEERING AND BUILDING

BRIDGE FOR THE SUNNING RAILWAY.

ONE OF THREE NEW ENGINEERING PROJECTS.

DIFFICULTIES CONFRONTING ENGINEERS IN CHINA.

Illustrating engineering progroas in China are savera" now projoces

that are being carried out by Messrs. Andersen, Meyer & Co., Led. Three outstanding examples of enterprises going forward ander direction of this firm are the hund ing of a bridge for the Sunning Railway over the Tam River in the Taishan District of Kwangtung Province, extension of the plant of the Kwangtung Electric Supply company at Canton and the cree pion of a new paper mill for the Liu Ho Paper Mill company Antung in Manchuria, Brief des criptions of these three projdets are

of interest

Sunning Railway Bridge.

GRID SCHEME IN BRITAIN.

COUNTRY DIVIDED INTO

TEN AREAS.

PROGRESS OF NATIONAL GRID SCHEME.

heating surface manufactured by the Heine Beiler Co., a supaidiary of the Combustion Engineering Corporation of New York, which will have a capacity of 80,000 lbs., of steam, per hoar at 280 lbs.,

pres. Buru superheated to 200 dog. Tha superheater is of the Superbeater Co,. of American manufacture. The boiler will be equipped with a

Since the formation of the Cen- Riley Stoker Corporation Harringtral Electricity Board in Grent lon Travelling Grate stoker with Britain, contracts too the value of £3,000,000 have been placed. Ap- forced draft and induced draft

proximately 1,000 miles of tennis. fans."

mission lines have been put in Two rather novel, foatures in this operation since 1927, and the na now installation will be a Greentional electricity "grid" is in of

Fuel Economizer Co.'s

new boiler.

einder

"

fective operation for the industrii) catcher located between the boiler belt of Scotland. smoke oilet and the induced draft | The national grid is primirii a fan to eliminate what has proved simplifiention of the network of to be a considerable nuisance, i.a., transmission. Hints formed by the the flood of cinders and fine uncoordinated growth of 800 elec- particles of ash over the neighbour, tricity supply undertakings. It hood. The other feature is the aims at conuentrating the genera Girtaner stem ash ajector by tion of electricity at the most iff- means of which the ash from the cient power stations, which will asb pits will be blown directly into be interconnected at a standard a receptacle where it can be re-voltage and frequency. This will moved by mechanical means at a mako current more widely considerable distance from the available, and it is anticipated boiler itself. The bunker system that its sale will increase and that dud seal conveying system are be the price will drop to a low uni- One serious obstacle to the furing extended to accommodate the form tariff throughout the country ther levelopment of the Bunnlag

Country Divided Into 10 Areas. The total capacity of the plans in Railway in the south of China has

By the electricity supply act, now being increased to 22,000 kw. 1028, Great Britain was been the crossing of the Tam River by the addition of new 6,000.kw. into 10 prons, for each of which a divided

The railway has for several years turbine and condensing equip scheme of interconnection forming worked on plans to build a bridgement, exact duplicates of the pre-part of the grid was to be prepared across the river at Kong Yet, and sent 6,000 kw, duit. All of the by the electricity commissioners turbines are of General Electric and a body of eight business men- manufacture and the condensers of the central' alectricity board. The Worthington "Pump & Machinery board will ultimately become the Corporation's manufacture. The wholesale side of the electricity The bridge has a steel superstructurbine generates at 2,300 volt, 60 apply industry, purchasing the ture and is a single track through cycle, a phase, and distributes to a whole of the current generated at truas span railway bridge with rapidly increasing, load in Canton. the selected stations, and reselling eight fixed spans" and one opening

New circulating pumps for the it in bulk to the local aupply ta span placed in the middle. The condensers are not being supplied thorities at a price fixed to cover piera and abutments are reinforced as the two circulating pumps for the expenses of constructing and concrete. The fixed spans ara 162 the first two units are being render-eperating the griü. feet center to center of bearingsed practically double in capacity and the opening span is a. Scherzer by the simple changing or the Ins Rolling Lift Bridge 71 foct center pellors and motors, affecting thus s

of piers. The total considerable saving in first Cost About four years. Bre

allowed to length of the bridge ja 1,388 feet and without any loss in economy, complete euch scheme, and progress center to center of boarings on

All of the old turbines have been has been more rapid than WAS abutments.

provided with air, washers of the anticipated. Eight schemes have The width of the bridge is 10 Spray Engineering Cal's manu been adoptad, covering 72 per cent feet and there are two five feet facture for cooling and washing of the area and over 07 per centroi aide, walks outside the trushes. the air for ventilating the gen- the population of Great Britain; à The whole bridge in planked with erator. The new turbine, however, ninth is under consideration. The hardwood boards and can, there will be equipped with a Genoral northwest England and fore, be used for Hight vehicut Electric Co. surface air cooter Wales scheme; including Lanca- traffic.

through which the air for ventila-ahire, was the fourth

to be pre

in June this year the plans were realized and the contracts for the construction of the bridge placed.

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TEMPORARY REMEDIES:

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Progress More Rapid Than Anticipated.

north

Seventy per cont of the length of tion is continually circulated and pared and was adopted on October the bridge is over water averaging cooled. 40 fect in depth at high water. The river bottom is fine and ecarse sand overlying a strata of hard

12, 1028. The contral Sectland scheme, the first contract for which was placed about three years ago, The present equipment of Liu Ho was inaugurated by the Minister

New Paper Mill in Manchuria..

DODWELL & CO., LTD. clay. The piers will be resting on Cheng Paper Mill Co. of Antung, of Transport or April 3, 1930, and

CANTON.

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supplied by

this strata of hard clay.

is almost complete. In the next) The contract for the construction Japanese maanfacturers who erect four areas constructional work is of the bridge was awarded to ed the same and put it into opora. Proceeding and contracts have been McDonnell & Gorman of Tientsin, tion. The present output is about let for the others. Over 400 miles Bridge Builders and General Con- 24 tons por 24-hour day of good of main transmission lines are in tractors. The design of the bascule paper. Two grades

operation, and a further 500 miles

Dru made:

is carried out by the Scherzer Holl.white and unbleached or an, which are completed or under construc ing Lift Bridge Co., New York; are used for Chinese writing, paper

tion. The first 132,000-volt line the design of the fixed spans and to make notebooks and account was put into servicë on May 9, carried out by the American Bridge books.

1929, in central Scotland, and a

IQW

Co. a subsidiary Company of the

The pulp is made from a species your Cater England followed with United States Steel Corporation, of reed stalks and other

a 20-mile auction from Bedford w who also supply the structural materials are not available or used. Luton. On the greater part of the steel and operating machinary,' McBars, Andersen, Meyer & Co., eccondary system work is proceed- The design, superstructure, ma- Ltd. through their Mukdes Officeing; the 33,030-volt line from Stock- abinery and equipment are suppli- recently signed a contract with the part to Macclesfield was switched ed through Andersen, Meyer & Co., Liu Ho Cheng Paper Mill Co., forin on September 30, 1929, to supply Ltd, Shanghai, who also act as the sale and erection of

Macclesfield and the Trent Valley Consulting Enginecra,

sion to their present plant, capable and High Peak Electricity Com The work on the building site was of producing 10 tons of 9,240 lbs. pany' (Itd.).. commenced in June this year and of blanched paper per day.

Electric Plant at Ganton.

flexton-

the bridge will be completed early The paper mill machinery is be- surface condensing plant, ono in 1923,

ing supplied by James Bertram & IG.E. generator and 4 complete Son Ltd. of Edinburgh, who are sat of 1.GE motors for all f one of the foremost engineers dividual electrio drive machines. The plant of the Kwangtung specializing in paper making ma- Steam will be supplied by ons Electric Supply Plant at Canto chinery. They have supplied, about boiler unit consisting of a Hone at the present time consists of twu 00 per ocht of the paper making type (vertical hänt tabo) water 2,500 kw., one 5,000 kew, and une machinery now in use in India and tube boiler.

6,000 kw. turbo generators complete have had considerable experience The buildings and power plant with the usual accessories and with in handling raw materials such as have been specially designed by the Aix boilers two of which are used by the Lin Ho Cheng Paper angineering staff of Andersen, equipped with pulverized fust and Mill Co.

Meyer & Co., Latal.

one with oil burner... Mesara. The power plant will consist of Completo delivery of the whole 迄 500h.p. horizontal compound plant will be made within five

Andersen, Meyer & Co. have, zm

cantly sold and there is now being

installed a boiler of 10,000 sq. ft.,

steam engine with a Worthington months from date of signing the

(Continued at foot of neat column) contract, or about May, 1932,

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