[modeleng] Re: Hybrid engines, was Re: Electric Motors

Certainly not me!!  I'm just not good enough!!

Al Messer
--- alanjstepney <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Talking of  hybrid engines, one thing that has
> always fascinated me is some
> of the strange ideas that have been tried with
> locomotives over the years.
> 
> One of the most unusual was the Kitson-Still
> steam-diesel hybrid, which was
> built in 1924.
> It had 8 double-acting cylinders, in two
> horizontally opposed rows, across
> the engine, with steam on one side of the pistons
> and diesel on the other.
> Steam was supplied by the boiler which could be
> started on oil, but them ran
> from the heat of the diesel exhaust and cooling
> system.
> .
> When starting the boiler was fired up in the normal
> way, sufficient to
> achieve some 5 m.p.h, when the diesel fuel was
> injected into the cylinders
> and the diesel sections  fired. They, in turn,
> provided heat to the boiler,
> thus generating more steam.
> 
> Strange as it sounds, it actually worked, achieving
> an efficiency of some
> 40%.
> 
> 
> Now, who is going to build a model of one? !!
> 
> alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> www.alanstepney.info
> Model Engineering, Steam Engine, and Railway
> technical pages.
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Charles & Dorothy Brumbelow"
> <cbrumbelow@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2004 1:06 AM
> Subject: [modeleng] Re: Electric Motors
> 
> 
> A number of years ago, Live Steam and Modeltec in
> the states published brief
> articles about folks who used small gasoline
> engines, batteries, and
> alternators with electric motors to replicate the
> operation of diesel
> electric locomotives.  Live Steam was February 1979.
>  I can't remember at
> the moment which Modeltec issue it was.  Both
> operated a lot like the hybred
> automobiles which are beginning to be sold.  Charles
> 
> 
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