Power Requirements and Costs for High-Capacity Cotton Gins (Classic Reprint)

Name: Power Requirements and Costs for High-Capacity Cotton Gins (Classic Reprint)
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By Wilmot, Charles Archibald

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Excerpt from Power Requirements and Costs for High-Capacity Cotton Gins<br/><br/>In 19a5, the average connected horsepower was 185 for California gins and 159 for west Texas gins During succeeding years, more complex unloading systems, additional drying and seed-cotton cleaning equipment, larger feeders an gin stands, and from one to three stages of lint cleaning were gradually incorpo rated in the normal ginning complement. Line and jack-shaft drives, powered by one or two internal combustion engines or electric motors were gradually re placed by individual electric drives to each piece of equipment. By 1962, total connected loads ranged as high as 857 horsepower in California and 699 in west Texas, and averaged 677 horsepower and horsepower, respectively, for the two areas Since 1962, the horsepower buildup in cotton ginning has continued, with connected loads ranging as high as horsepower in single-battery gin plants now being erected. Although continual increases in total connected horsepower require larger outlays of capital for purchasing electric motors, another major concern of gin ners has been the corresponding rise in costs for electrical energy. At given levels of energy consumption, rate structures in most utility schedules favor plants with smaller connected loads and lower kilowatts of demand. Consequently substantial increases in connected horsepower and in kilowatt-demand loads ac companied by less than proportionate increases in ginning rates have resulted in higher power costs per bale. Unless this imbalance can be corrected, power cost per bale are likely to continue to rise as gins become larger.

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Number of Pages:: 30
Release Date:: 2017-11-19
Publication Date:: 2017-11-19
Publisher:: Forgotten Books
Languages:: Published: English, Original: English
ISBN10:: 0331404222
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]
Weight:: 200 g

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