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Apr 6, 2010 8:21:09 GMT -5
Post by Avenger on Apr 6, 2010 8:21:09 GMT -5
That was at a... ahem... Water Pollution Control Plant which is a nice way of saying Sewage Treatment Plant.
I know Krush already knows how all this works, but for anybody else that's interested;
The generators are dual fuel V-12s that power the facility and can burn diesel fuel, but most commonly burn the methane produced by the... well, you know. They have two diesel fuel injection systems. The main system delivers approximately a shotglass of fuel per stroke for when they're running on diesel fuel. When they run on gas the other system is actually derived from the injection pump on a Mack truck and the injectors in a Navistar 7.3L. They inject a small amount of diesel fuel into an what Cooper calls an "energy cell" a pre-combustion chamber that acts as a spark-plug to get the gas to burn.
Most of our work for them is rebuilding the Woodward governors. Sometimes we also do their injection pumps and injectors.
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Apr 6, 2010 8:40:55 GMT -5
Post by Avenger on Apr 6, 2010 8:40:55 GMT -5
Here's some others from a municipal power plant. I had posted these across the hall, but nobody seemed to give a.... Macintosh-Seymour diesels installed 1930 and 1933: 3000 HP. Engines this size today would make at least 10X that. Another view of all the exposed monkey-motion: Note the oil trough where the cam sits and all the exposed rollers. These were from the days when "Oiler" and "Wiper" were actual job descriptions. The top catwalk is about forty feet high. They had blast-air fuel injection just the way Rudy invented it. Some more modern power: Nordbergs had replaced most of the Macs. The last two in the pics above are razor-blades now. Unfortunately I don't have a lot of pictures of the things I've worked on. In the early days I didn't want to look like a tourist and today security prevents some of the picture taking. We've worked on B&Ws and Sulzers mostly on ships, but you can't see as much of them with all the decking in the way.
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Nov 30, 2010 18:43:05 GMT -5
Post by skycheney on Nov 30, 2010 18:43:05 GMT -5
Introducing JOHN Freds' "Bullit"..... the stud!!!!! LOL ppat ' Is this your dog?
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