New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1866-01-26
PETROLEUM AS FUEL.
Report % the Trustees Of the Petreleuna
Light Company,

By Col Julius W. adams Engineer, Of Experiments
made a the Morgds Iron Works. N,p- York, Oe'o-
Der IL. 1866. in presence Of Capt. Byfhssea, r. ~,
Secretary Of Her BritanHie Majeays Legation at
Washin1tonJ Cyrus W. Field, ssq.. the Hon. Ja"<s
WadsportA, Tic Hon. Horace Greeley the Hon Dsr'd
Dudley Fis,d john E. WILLIAMS, esq. Prudent Ne
tropolitan Bank Wiltiam A. Thomsoa, oq, Wee
Prssidsnt Erie and Niagara Railpay George ".
Quiatsrd. esq. Morgan Iron ROrk'; Mr.. Jam" Far.
ron, Superintendent Morgan b0F. #Ork'' and eH'''
cfas Company.
EsGISEEK's OFFICE, No. l2S BROADWAY
EEw.YoRK, Oct. Is, 1906.
To The Trustees Of the Petroleum Light Company No. 2o7
Pearl ST.. Nep- York.
GENTLEMEN; BY your direction. experiments nave
been in progress for months having In view tne
calculation of the principles and methods used by MT
Simon Stevens for burning petroleum and other hydro
caIbons In combination with Jets Of steam; when
method and the apparatus used form the bess OF the
various pateb held BY your company in this country
and In England.
The difficulty hitherto has been In attempting TO burn
the crude petroleum. that the imperfect combustion
alone attainable by the In use has resulted in
great waste OF the material shown By the dense
smoke which invariably accompanied all attempts to
burn 1t in confined space. This and the difficulty OF
regulating the feed have hitherto prevented success.
iu application Of this material fuel in the genera.
ton of steam In boilers am well aware that 1t has
occasionally been accomplished on a small scale; bat no
experiments that have knowledge OF have exhibited
anything like the requisite command Of the material in
feeding the fire. or certainty in its fuel. This
remark Is made In full knowledge Of what has been ac
conplished in this direction by Messrs. Linton Shaw
an we'll ms nv Mr. Richardson In England This diff.
Guilty has think been successfully overcome In the
periuents conducted for your company aud the crude
petroleum. without other fnel than the chips for kndDg
the fres has been burnt daily under marine boiler In
course Of experiments extending from the month Of
May last and proves manageable; under the
control Of the fireman. and develops an amount OF heat
greater than any fuel with which we are acquainted
Mr.. George W. Quintard Of the Morgan Iron Works
having offered US the Of marine boiler for our ex
periments we applied our apparatus to it, without re-
gard TO any dsproporton which might exist between
the two further experiments being needed In order to
determine their precise relative dimensions. The
periments thus far have not extended beyond the de-
termination Of the fact that petroleum may be used
with great facility fuel under steam boilers, by a
single fireman of ordinary Intelligence No minute
aysis has been made Of Its comparative economy-the
results thus far being regarded merely genera but
from the results herewith shown you win be enabled to
determine how far experiments sustain the claim
we have advanced Of having successfully applied this
material to steam boilers.
The boiler used an internal fue and return fire.
tube boiler the sbeu measuring 10 feet and inches in
length by six feet in diameter. with gratesurface Of
IS square feet contents about 800 gallons Of water to
tn level Of inches above the upper line Of tubes.