Development and Application of Medium Speed Gas Burning Engines

Abstract

The discovery of North Sea natural gas has provided a test facility not previously available in the United Kingdom which has enabled the development of natural-gas burning engines, also suitable for overseas markets, to proceed at a rapid pace. The development of such a medium speed gaseous fuel engine is described, with details of the methods used to obtain the desired operating characteristics of gas—air mixing and mixture strength, ignition timing and control of changeover from one fuel to the other; some typical applications of this type of engine are given.