[Sidenote:  Exhaust Piping]

From each atmospheric exhaust valve, which is direct-connected to the condensing chamber at each low-pressure cylinder, is run downward a 30-inch riveted-steel exhaust pipe.  At a point just under the engine-room floor the exhaust pipe is carried horizontally around the engine foundations, the two from each pair of engines uniting in a 40-inch riser to the roof.  This riser is between the pair of engines and back of the high-pressure cylinder, thus passing through the so-called pipe area, where it also receives exhaust steam from the pump auxiliaries.  At the roof the 40-inch riser is run into a 48-inch stand pipe.  This is capped with an exhaust head, the top of which is 35 feet above the roof.

All the exhaust piping 30 inches in diameter and over is longitudinally riveted steel with cast-iron flanges riveted on to it.  Expansion joints are provided where necessary to relieve the piping from the strains due to expansion and contraction, and where the joints are located near the engine and generator they are of corrugated copper.  The expansion joints in the 40-inch risers above the pipe area are ordinarily packed slip joints.

The exhaust piping from the auxiliaries is carried directly up into the pipe area, where it is connected with a feed-water heater, with means for by-passing the latter.  Beyond the heater it joins the 40-inch riser to the roof.  The feed-water heaters are three-pass, vertical, water-tube heaters, designed for a working water pressure of 225 pounds per square inch.

The design of the atmospheric relief valve received special consideration.  A lever is provided to assist the valve to close, while a dash pot prevents a too quick action in either direction.

[Sidenote:  Compressed Air]

The power house will be provided with a system for supplying compressed air to various points about the structure for cleaning electrical machinery and for such other purposes as may arise.  It will also be used for operating whistles employed for signaling.  The air is supplied to reservoir tanks by two vertical, two-stage, electric-driven air compressors.

[Sidenote:  Oil System]

For the lubrication of the engines an extensive oil distributing and filtering system is provided.  Filtered oil will be supplied under pressure from elevated storage tanks, with a piping system leading to all the various journals.  The piping to the engines is constructed on a duplicate, or crib, system, by which the supply of oil cannot be interrupted by a break in any one pipe.  The oil on leaving the engines is conducted to the filtering tanks.  A pumping equipment then redelivers the oil to the elevated storage tanks.

All piping carrying filtered oil is of brass and fittings are inserted at proper pipes to facilitate cleaning.  The immediate installation includes two oil filtering tanks at the easterly end of the power house, but the completed plant contemplates the addition of two extra filtering tanks at the westerly end of the structure.