Fuel and Lubricating Oils for Diesel Engines

Abstract

THE title of this book is apt to convey a wrong impression, as its contents in the main are of a general character, and not specially devoted to Diesel engines. There are three sections, the first of which deals with the origin and preparation of various kinds of fuel oils,with special reference to the varieties which may be used for Diesel engines; the second section treats very briefly of lubricating oils; whilst the third consists of a description of the commercial tests applied to these oils. The book would have been of greater service to British consumers of oil had the author included a fuller account of the methods of testing and forms of specification used in this country instead of confining himself to Continental practice in these particulars. Thus Redwood's viscometer, the British standard instrument, is dismissed in a dozen lines,and Abel's flash-point apparatus is not mentioned.Descriptions of other appliances are sometimes toomeagre, the bomb calorimeter being given only eleven lines, whilst a purifying apparatus, illustrated on p. 66, is entirely undescribed in the text. In spite of these drawbacks, however, the book contains much useful information of a practical kind.

Fuel and Lubricating Oils for Diesel Engines.

W.

Schenker

By. Pp. xii + 114. (London: Constable and Co., Ltd., 1921.) 15s.