Posted by RCP on February 27, 2016 at 04:34:46 from (165.225.34.114):
In Reply to: Re: OT my weeks work posted by JD Seller on February 26, 2016 at 22:39:59:
Not to steal Dave's thunder, but these are large two cycle pure turbocharged natural gas engines, typically used to compress natural gas and transport it through pipelines. The manufacturers are Clark Brothers and Cooper Bessemer, the last of these engines were built in the late 1990s, although there have been a few built recently by Cooper on special order. These companies also built two stroke engines with positive displacement air pumps to provide combustion air, but turbocharging is more efficient.
There were four stroke engines made by Ingersol Rand, Worthington, Fairbanks Morse and others, but they did not require the finesse to build air manifold pressure as the two stroke to develop horsepower.
PS I worked for Cooper Bessemer for 23 years before leaving to join General Electric in the locomotive engine plant.
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