The internal combustion engine; being a text book on gas, oil and petrol engines, for the use of students and engineers (1909)
Wimperis, Harry Egerton, 1876- · New York, Van Nostrand · leaf 259
NAL COMBUSTION ENGINE need not be more than 0*40 lb. of oil per b.h.p.-hour. If the oil have a calorific power of 15,000,000 ft.-lb. per pound, this is equivalent to the engine yielding 1,980,000 ft.-lb. (being one b.h.p.-hour) for every 0-40x15,000,000 ft.-lb. ,.,.,.. m . , 1,980,000 , put into… … Fig. 70.—Sectional view of Diesel Oil Engine (Mirrlees, Watson and Co.).Note position of inlet valves. See also Fig. 71. ciency, and the reason why it can be obtained is mainly on account of the high compression employed, viz. 35 or 40 as against 5 or 6 as commonly used on other engines. The Diesel…
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