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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. Rio Grande class K-37 - Wikipedia

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    Burnham Shops was assisted in the construction of the class by the Stearn-Rogers Manufacturing Company. [4] The class recycled components from Baldwin Locomotive Works-built Class 19 (later C-41) 2-8-0 locomotives used on the Rio Grande's standard gauge; re-using the boiler, tender and other components salvaged from the C-41's. [3]

  4. 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 ...

  5. Scotch marine boiler - Wikipedia

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    A "Scotch" marine boiler (or simply Scotch boiler) is a design of steam boiler best known for its use on ships. Sectional diagram of a "wet back" boiler. The general layout is that of a squat horizontal cylinder. One or more large cylindrical furnaces are in the lower part of the boiler shell. Above this are many small-diameter fire-tubes ...

  6. Fuel oil - Wikipedia

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    The term fuel oil generally includes any liquid fuel that is burned in a furnace or boiler to generate heat (heating oils), or used in an engine to generate power (as motor fuels). However, it does not usually include other liquid oils, such as those with a flash point of approximately 42 °C (108 °F), or oils burned in cotton- or wool-wick ...

  7. American Radiator Company - Wikipedia

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    The oil crisis negatively affected the company's activities, and the plant in Aulnay closed. [16] The Dammarie plant closed in 1975. [20] In 1975, production of bathroom furniture ended at Dole. A new company Société Nouvelle Idéal Standard was established under the control of Société Générale de Fonderie (65%) and Société de Dietrich.

  8. Holyrood Thermal Generating Station - Wikipedia

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    In a thermal generating station, fuel is burned in a boiler to convert water to steam. The high-pressure steam is directed into a turbine that is connected to an electrical generator that produces electricity as it turns. A seawater condenser is used for cooling the spent steam from the turbine, converting it back to water that is reused in the ...

  9. List of boiler types by manufacturer - Wikipedia

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    Smithies boiler: A development of the pot boiler with added watertubes, used for model steam locomotives. [52] The boiler was invented by F. Smithies in 1900 and developed by Greenly. It consists of a cylindrical water drum hidden inside a larger drum that forms the visible part of the model.

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