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| Author: | Dave [ Wed Jul 13, 2005 6:48 pm ] |
| Post subject: | oil combustion question |
Did anybody combine oil firing with combustion chambers, overfire jets or both in combination? dave |
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| Author: | jim templin [ Thu Jul 14, 2005 5:56 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: oil combustion question |
T&P 2-10-4s all were built as oil burners with combustion chambers, and I am pretty sure the ESPEE had several classes thus equipped.I'd just about bet that anything fairly big would have had a combustion chamber, oil burner or not.I can't imagine anyone putting in overfire jets on an oil burning engine. |
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| Author: | Dave [ Thu Jul 14, 2005 6:46 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: oil combustion question |
Do you think overfire jets might provide an additional oxygen supply to completely burn more oil to generate additional BTUs and abate black smoke? Or, would it just cool things down?dave |
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| Author: | jim templin [ Thu Jul 14, 2005 9:38 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: oil combustion question |
I suspect that the steam atomizer would accomplish much the same thing in a much more direct way. Overfire jets were mainly a soot and smoke preventer for coal; I understand that their reception as an actual economy improver were mixed. |
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