Robert Mierisch
Plastic
- Joined
- Oct 15, 2009
Our new plant will use the excellent designs of the Skinner Engine Works of Erie Pennsylvania. Please help with any detailed information.
The Solar Storage Company, based in Silicon Valley California with a temporary office in Melbourne Australia, is building new Skinner engines to run in 2010. The engines are for a solar thermal power plant. Just how we arrange that is part way through the patent process. All will be revealed when we are selling product.
The Skinner designs of greatest interest are the "Universal-Unaflow" type and the "Marine Unaflow" that first appeared around 1929. We have less interest in the "Marine Compound" that first appeared around 1934. The former is a single stage engine and the latter a "Woolf Cycle" compound with "steeple-jacked" pistons.
All detailed information is of interest. We already have access to information from large museums. What we seek is copies or photos of those old drawings, manuals and reports that some of you may have in your collections. Ideally, we will buy a set of piston rings, various other spares and a suitable complete engine. Something smaller would be ideal, perhaps a 150 to 250 horsepower two or three cylinder, the type used in hotels.
Any information on other uniflow/unaflow engines would be good. Consider Ames, Chuse, Hamilton, Harrisburg, Nordberg, Ridgway and Stumpf.
We will be absolutely delighted if anyone has a copy of the "Jour. Franklin Inst., Dec., 1902" report on the "Binary vapor eng., Royal High School, Berlin. Terrel Croft (1922, 1939) reported that this engine achieved an overall thermal efficiency of 26.8% operating with 143 psig superheated steam (590 deg Fahr.) and 4.5 inch absolute back pressure.
We have the addresses of hundreds of Skinner clients. I just hope this post will get some results quicker.
The Solar Storage Company, based in Silicon Valley California with a temporary office in Melbourne Australia, is building new Skinner engines to run in 2010. The engines are for a solar thermal power plant. Just how we arrange that is part way through the patent process. All will be revealed when we are selling product.
The Skinner designs of greatest interest are the "Universal-Unaflow" type and the "Marine Unaflow" that first appeared around 1929. We have less interest in the "Marine Compound" that first appeared around 1934. The former is a single stage engine and the latter a "Woolf Cycle" compound with "steeple-jacked" pistons.
All detailed information is of interest. We already have access to information from large museums. What we seek is copies or photos of those old drawings, manuals and reports that some of you may have in your collections. Ideally, we will buy a set of piston rings, various other spares and a suitable complete engine. Something smaller would be ideal, perhaps a 150 to 250 horsepower two or three cylinder, the type used in hotels.
Any information on other uniflow/unaflow engines would be good. Consider Ames, Chuse, Hamilton, Harrisburg, Nordberg, Ridgway and Stumpf.
We will be absolutely delighted if anyone has a copy of the "Jour. Franklin Inst., Dec., 1902" report on the "Binary vapor eng., Royal High School, Berlin. Terrel Croft (1922, 1939) reported that this engine achieved an overall thermal efficiency of 26.8% operating with 143 psig superheated steam (590 deg Fahr.) and 4.5 inch absolute back pressure.
We have the addresses of hundreds of Skinner clients. I just hope this post will get some results quicker.