Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1892 — Oil Fuel on Steamers. [ARTICLE]

Oil Fuel on Steamers.

The experiments with liquid fuel on one or t wo English steamships and on several belonging to tho Italians, is again calling the attention of the engineering profession to possibilities in tho use of that fuel. In the English torpedo boat, the Sunderland, this fuel was used with considerable success. The boiler was of the locomotive type and was fitted with thirty-one burners. Tho oil was carried in a tank of suitable capacity and thence pumped in a small cylindrical tank; from theneb it was forced to the oil burners under a pressure oi thirty-five pounds to the square Inch; at the burners it met jets of air delivered under forty pounds pressure, by which the proeess'of atomizing was effectively performed. The combustion is said to ba so perfect that there was neither smoke nor smell from the oil, and no deposit wai formed in tho tubes or elsewhere in the boiler. The, Italian government, it is stated, will continue its experiments in this direction, pud it Is also reported that the Peruvians will da some experimenting for themselves.