An oil burner engine is a steam engine that uses oil as its fuel. The term is often used with reference to a locomotive or ship engine that burns oil, to heat water, to produce steam which drives the pistons, or turbines, from which the power is derived. Some engines of this form were originally designed to be coal powered and were converted. An early pioneer of this form of engine was James Holden.
This is mechanically very different from a diesel engine that is a form of internal combustion engine, which is sometimes colloquially referred to as an oil burner.
Conversion
When a coal-burning steam locomotive is converted to oil-burning, various modifications are usual:
- the grate is covered with broken firebrick to act as a reservoir of heat. If the oil flame is blown out (e.g. by a downdraft when entering a tunnel) the hot firebrick will re-ignite it
- the lower part of the inner firebox is lined with firebrick
- shorter superheater elements are fitted
Changes 2 & 3 are needed because oil firing produces higher temperatures than coal firing and can cause rapid erosion of metal. For a similar reason, the smokebox is sometimes painted with silver-coloured heat-resisting paint.
Locomotives powered by oil burner engines
- Darjeeling Himalayan Railway
- LNER Class U1
- Snowdon Mountain Railway
- Union Pacific 737
- most cab forward locomotives
- some Fairlie locomotives
- Advanced steam technology locomotives
Ships powered by oil burner engines
- USS Drayton (DD-23)
- USS Terry (DD-25)
- USS Perkins (DD-26)
- USS Sterett (DD-27)
- USS McCall (DD-28)
- USS Warrington (DD-30)
- USS Burrows (DD-29)
- USS Monaghan (DD-32)
- USS Trippe (DD-33)
- USS Walke (DD-34)
- USS Ammen (DD-35)
- USS Jarvis (DD-38)
- USS Henley (DD-39)
- USS Jouett (DD-41)
- USS Jenkins (DD-42)
- USS George Washington (1908)
See also
- Oil refinery
- Steam power during the Industrial Revolution
- Timeline of steam power
References
- ^ Cletus H. Jones (1985). Marine Fuels . ASTM International. ISBN 0803104251 . http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0803104251&id=I8se_2fK9R0C&pg=PA87&lpg=PA87&dq=%22Oil+Burner%22+ship&ie=ISO-8859-1&output=html&sig=MneYYV9yjekEI24_G0_vQT8xRGA .
- ^ Alan J. Goldfinch (2004). How Steam Locomotives Really Work . Oxford University Press. ISBN 0198607822 . http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0198607822&id=XzEjhUmRut4C&pg=PA36&lpg=PA36&dq=%22James+Holden%22+oil&ie=ISO-8859-1&output=html&sig=8pckazzb-yoBXQmFmJKIuwFkf_0 .
External links
- The General Becomes An Oil Burner
- Fuel energy &
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