Oil burner (engine)

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This article is about the engine. For a meaning related to heating device, see Oil burner.

An oil burner engine is a machine that uses oil as its fuel. The term is often used with reference to a train or ship engine that burns oil to produce steam that drive the 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.[1][2]

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.

Darjeeling Himalayan Railway Locomotive No.787 after conversion to oil firing.
Darjeeling Himalayan Railway Locomotive No.787 after conversion to oil firing.

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[edit] Trains powered by oil burner engines

USS Trippe, an oil burner powered ship
USS Trippe, an oil burner powered ship

[edit] Ships powered by oil burner engines

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[edit] References

  1. ^ Cletus H. Jones (1985). Marine Fuels. ASTM International. ISBN 0803104251. 
  2. ^ Alan J. Goldfinch (2004). How Steam Locomotives Really Work. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0198607822. 

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