CONTENTS: Advancing Standards in Steam Generation; RELATION OF PLANT DESIGN AND OPERATION TO THE COAL MARKET: Predicting Clinker Trouble; Equipment and Operation Limit Coal Buying; Necessity of Knowing One's Exact Requirements; Elastic Methods and Standards; IMPORTANCE OF SEPARATELY APPRAISING PLANT PERFORMANCE AND COAL VALUES: Conflicting Methods of Coal Valuation; Plant Performance -- the Concealed Influence; Heat Balance Reveals the Truth; COAL CHARACTERISTICS WHICH MAY MODIFY PLANT PERFORMANCE: Coking Quality of Coal; Sizing as a Factor in Plant Efficiency; Pulverized Coal and Sizing; Weather May Modify Values; PREDICTING COAL QUALITY: 9 Times Out of 10 within 2%; Single Shipments Not Safe Basis for Valuation; Gauging the Market; Forecasting Values as a Business Asset; COMMERCIAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR PROFIT AND LOSS IN COAL BUYING: Any Value at Any Price; Advantages of Closer Discrimination; CONTROLLING THE MAJOR VARIABLES IN THE COAST OF STEAM: Importance of Qualities in Steam Generation; Quality Measures Have Their Own Use; Getting Power Plant Data in Its Proper Order; Continuous Records for High Efficiency; STRUCTURE OF THE COAL MARKET: Four Main Divisions of the Coal Market; Cheaper Coals and the Trend of Plant Design; ECONOMIC AND ENGINEERING TRENDS IN STEAM GENERATION: Higher Rates and Greater Coal Buying Limitations; Effect of Fusing Point on Coal Burning Methods; Modernization a Problem in Partial Obsolescence.
