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Stationary Engines: Stationary Steam Engines, Watt Steam Engine, Newcomen Steam Engine, Hot Bulb Engine, Corliss Steam Engine, Portable En

Stationary Engines: Stationary Steam Engines, Watt Steam Engine, Newcomen Steam Engine, Hot Bulb Engine, Corliss Steam Engine, Portable En


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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 42. Chapters: Stationary steam engines, Watt steam engine, Newcomen steam engine, Hot bulb engine, Corliss steam engine, Portable engine, Hit-and-miss engine, Stationary engine, Gas engine, Herbert Akroyd Stuart, Musgrave non-dead-centre engine, Blowing engine, Cornish engine, Otto engine, Creusot steam hammer, Petrie of Rochdale, Hornsby-Akroyd oil engine, Barring engine, Smethwick Engine, Carel Freres, Ghent, Cotswold Heritage, Rider-Ericsson Engine Company, Lister d, Powerpack. Excerpt: The hot bulb engine, or hotbulb or heavy oil engine is a type of internal combustion engine. It is an engine in which fuel is ignited by being brought into contact with a red hot metal surface inside a bulb. Most hot bulb engines were produced as one-cylinder low-speed two-stroke crankcase scavenging units. The concept of this engine was established by Herbert Akroyd Stuart at the end of the 19th century. The first prototypes were built in 1886 and production started in 1891 by Richard Hornsby & Sons of Grantham, Lincolnshire, England under the title Hornsby Akroyd Patent Oil Engine under licence. It was later developed in the USA by the German emigrants Mietz and Weiss by combining it with the two-stroke engine developed by Joseph Day. Similar engines, for agricultural and marine use, were built by Bolinder and Pythagoras engine factory in Sweden. Bolinder is now part of the Volvo group. A Hornsby-Akroyd hot bulb engine, built to the original horizontal cylinder, four-stroke design. This particular engine has been adapted to run on lamp oil.Akroyd-Stuart's heavy oil engine (compared to spark-ignition) is distinctly different from Rudolf Diesel's better-known engine where ignition is initiated through the heat of compression. An oil engine will have a compression ratio of about 3:1, where a typical Diesel engine will have a compression ratio...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781230595542
  • Publisher: University-Press.Org
  • Publisher Imprint: University-Press.Org
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 44
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Weight: 95 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1230595546
  • Publisher Date: 12 Sep 2013
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Stationary Steam Engines, Watt Steam Engine, Newcomen Steam Engine, Hot Bulb Engine, Corliss Steam Engine, Portable En
  • Width: 189 mm


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