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2. Oil burner (engine) - Wikipedia

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   Oil Burning Locomotive: Southern Pacific 2472 at the Niles Canyon Railway An oil burner engine is a steam engine that uses oil as its fuel. The term is usually applied to a locomotive or ship engine that burns oil to heat water, to produce the steam which drives the pistons, or turbines, from which the power is derived.

3. Firebox (steam engine) - Wikipedia

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   The oil burner nozzle is usually mounted in the front of the firebox, protected by a hood of firebrick, and aimed at the firebrick wall below the firebox door. Dampers control air flow to the oil fire. Schematic of a later steam locomotive firebox boiler, with firebox to the left and indicatively showing two superheater elements to the right.

4. Steam locomotive components - Wikipedia

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   Firebox Furnace chamber built into the boiler, which produces steam in surrounding water. Various combustible materials can be used as fuel; the most common are coal and oil but in earlier times coke and/or wood were used. [1] [2] [8] [6]: 117 [3]: 34 Boiler tubes and flues

5. Oil burner - Wikipedia

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   An oil burner is a part attached to an oil furnace, water heater, or boiler. [1] It provides the ignition of heating oil/biodiesel fuel used to heat either air or water via a heat exchanger . The fuel is atomized into a fine spray usually by forcing it under pressure through a nozzle which gives the resulting flame a specific flow rate, angle ...

6. Fireman (steam engine) - Wikipedia

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   A mechanical stoker is a device which feeds coal into the firebox of a boiler. It is standard equipment on large stationary boilers and was also fitted to large steam locomotives to ease the burden of the fireman. The locomotive type has a screw conveyor (driven by an auxiliary steam engine) which feeds the coal into the firebox. The coal is ...

7. Category:Steam locomotive fireboxes - Wikipedia

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   Corrugated furnace; F. Firebox (steam engine) H. ... Round-topped firebox; W. Wootten firebox This page was last edited on 3 February 2011, at 11:44 (UTC ...