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Copyrighted material licensed to Stanford University by Thomson Scientific(),downloaded on Oct-05-2010 by Stanford University User.No further reproduction or distribution is permitted.Uncontrolled when printed.REAFFIRMED 2003FOR CURRENT COMMITTEE PERSONNELPLEASE E-MAIL CSasme.orgPulverizers Supplement to Performance Test Code for Steam Generating Units,PTC 4.1 PERFORMANCE TEST CODES Copyrighted material licensed to Stanford University by Thomson Scientific(),downloaded on Oct-05-2010 by Stanford University User.No further reproduction or distribution is permitted.Uncontrolled when printed.Library of Congress Catalog No.70-77829 No part of this document may be reproduced in any form,in an electronic retrieval system or otherwise,without the prior written permission of the publisher.Copyright,1969,by The American Society of Mechanical Engineers Printed in.the United States o f America Copyrighted material licensed to Stanford University by Thomson Scientific(),downloaded on Oct-05-2010 by Stanford University User.No further reproduction or distribution is permitted.Uncontrolled when printed.FOREWORD In 1937 the American Boiler Manufacturers and Affiliated Industries Asso-ciation approached the ASME Performance Test Codes Committee with the request for the development of a Code on the testing of coal pulverizers.After discussion of this problem by the standing Performance Test Codes Committee,the scope of the Performance Test Code Committee No.4 on Station-ary Steam-Generating Units was expanded to cover the performance characteris-tics of equipment such as coal pulverizers and other fuel burning apparatus.A preliminary draft of the Code PTC 4.1 was distributed for comment and criticism in January,1941.Notification of completion of this code appeared in the May,1943,issue of Mechanical Engineering.At the December 3,1943,meet-ing of the standing Committee it was approved and adopted by the Council on May 16,1944.In May,1958,Performance Test Code Committee No.4 was reorganized and instructed to rewrite and bring up to date the Performance Test Code for Steam Generating Units,PTC 4.1,and its Supplement,the Test Code for Coal Pulver-izers,PTC 4.2.Later these instructions were extended to include a new Supple-ment,the Test Code for Air Heaters,PTC 4.3.The revised Test Code for Coal Pulverizers PTC 4.2 1969 was approved by the Performance Test Codes Committee on March 15,1968.The revised PTC 4.1 was approved and adopted by the Council of the Soc-iety by action of the Policy Board,Codes and Standards,on June 24,1964;the revised PTC 4.2 1969 on October 28,1968;and PTC 4.3 on November 8,1967.3 Copyrighted material licensed to Stanford University by Thomson Scientific(),downloaded on Oct-05-2010 by Stanford University User.No further reproduction or distribution is permitted.Uncontrolled when printed.PERSONNEL OF PERFORMANCE TEST CODE COMMITTEE NO.4 ON STATIONARY STEAM-GENERATING UNITS John M,Driscoll,Chairman John V.Cleary,Jr.,Secretary James U.Baley,General Superintendent,Electric Operations,Baltimore Gas and Electric Company,Gas and Electric Building,Baltimore,Maryland,21203 Charles D.Birget,formerly Chief Mechanical Engineer,Commonwealth Associates,Inc.,209 E.Washing-ton Avenue,Jackson,Michigan,49201 John A.Bostic,General Supervising Engineer,Civil and Mechanical Engineering Department,The Cleveland Electric Illuminating Company,Box 5000,Cleveland,Ohio,44101 Hugh J.Byrne,Steam-Power Engineer,Central Engineering Office,Crown Zellerbach Corporation,6363 Airport Way,Seattle,Washington,98108 John Vu Cleary,Jr.,Chief Cost Engineer,Cost Engineering Bureau,Consolidated Edison Company of New York,Inc.,4 Irving Place,New York,New York,10003 Leonard Cohen,Head,Operation Management Department,Naval Ship Engineering Center,Philadelphia Division,U.S.Nava!Base,Philadelphia,Pennsylvania,19112 John M.Driscoll,Chief Mechanica!Engineer,Consolidated Edison Company of New York,Inc.,4 Irving Place,New York,New York,10003 John H.Fernandes,Chief Project Engineer,Product Diversification Dept.,Combustion Engineering,Inc.,Prospect Hill Road,Windsor,Connecticut,06095 William Z.Harper,Assistant Superintendent,Utilities Division,Kodak Park Works,Eastman Kodak Company,Rochester,New York,14604 Edward C.Kistner,Engineer in Charge of Power Plant Section,Mechanical Engineering Division,Philadelphia Electric Company,9th and Sansom Streets,Philadelphia,Pennsylvania,19105 Frank C.Lisevick,Mechanical Engineer,Stone ti Webster,Inc.,225 Franklin St.,Boston,Massachusetts,02107 Robert A.Lorenzini,Senior Vice-president,Foster Wheeler Corporation,110 South Orange Avenue,Livingston,New Jersey,07039 John F.McLaughlin,Jr.,Manager,Production Engineering,Power Production Engineering,Union Electric Company,315 North 12th Boulevard,St.Louis,Missouri,63101 Silas L.Morse,Assistant Manager Field Engineering,The Babcock&Wilcox Company,20 South Van Buren Avenue,Barberton,Ohio,44203 Henry D.Mumper,Engineering Specialist.Engineering Department,combustion Engineering,Inc.,N