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    Most modern AFVs have such a system. It usually involves spraying fuel directly onto the exhaust. The Abrams VEESS system has been disabled, however, since the change from the original turbine fuel to JP-8 which renders the system inoperable. A good demonstration of the British engine-created smoke system was on Top Gear when a Challenger 2 smoked out Clarkson's Range Rover. It affects almost exclusively the visual spectrum.

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    Last edited by California Tanker; 1 February 2006, 22:27.
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  • #2
    Originally posted by California Tanker
    JP-8
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    Ye use AV-TUR in your tanks?
    Bear in mind Im coming from an aero background so i'm a little shocked to see kerosene being put into vehicles that don't fly.
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    • #3
      Originally posted by womble
      Thanks Cal Tanker. I hope!
      Maybe you can tell me. Why would an Abrams have external fuel tanks? I assume that they would only do so when not in a combat zone.
      Because the things get about 4 gallons to the mile, and all the extra fuel you can get is useful. Most countries that use external fuel tanks attach large barrels to the back deck, such as the Soviets or British do. For whatever reason, possibly due to the engine heat, this isn't done for the Americans. Likely the American bladders carry more as well.

      What they did come up with was this fuel bladder:



      Comes in varying different sizes. What you do is ditch the fuel bladder off the side, tie a hose to it, and then run over it, it will squish the fuel into the tank. Works fine for standard maneuver operations, such as the approach to Baghdad, but once the tanks started getting shot at, they lost the blivets very quickly.

      Bear in mind Im coming from an aero background so i'm a little shocked to see kerosene being put into vehicles that don't fly.
      Abrams uses a jet engine. As does T-80U and the now out-of-service Strv-103.


      That said, all US Army vehicles, including trucks, run on JP-8. Used to be that the Abrams used JP-5, standard AvGas I believe, but they decided it made more sense to have a single fuel source. I guess JP-8 is the compromise.

      That's nothing, I've seen an Abrams itself catch fire after the external fuel bladder was burst and the fuel ran into the engine!
      Well, we had the exhaust from one Abrams blow another Abrams up!


      So there!

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      Last edited by California Tanker; 2 February 2006, 07:32.
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      • #4
        Jesus the thing must be as quiet as a mouse, comparatively speaking compared to diesel engined tanks if it uses a turbine engine.
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        • #5
          Multifuel engines have been around for years...even the Chieftan designed during the late fifties could run on Jet B...which is pretty fine cut. Tears the shite out of the engine ..but works fine.

          Rememeber that all high compression fine cut fuels are only derivatives of diesel........you can run a tractor on JET A1...most home heating oil is produced from contaminated Jet fuel.....evry wonder where all the fuel samples go...or when tanks are emptied...recycled as home heating oil
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          • #6
            Originally posted by Bosco
            Jesus the thing must be as quiet as a mouse, comparatively speaking compared to diesel engined tanks if it uses a turbine engine.
            You'll hear the tracks long before you'll hear the engine.

            We actually got close enough to an Iraqi to bonk him on the head with the gun tube one day. We were creeping through traffic, mounted the center divide. He was standing on the divide, his attention completely fixed on something on the side of the road. We had initially thought he was deliberately ignoring and obstructing us until either he caught movement out of the corner of his eye, heard something, or just this little voice inside his head said 'look left'. He looked left, and I swear jumped a foot off the ground in shock before running across the road. We absolutely fell apart laughing inside the tank. We weren't the only ones, a lot of the pedestrians were laughing their asses off as well.

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            • #7
              Couldn't the SU-25 fly on Diesel?
              Meh.

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              • #8
                The Alouette III can run on petrol or diesel (can't remember which) so long as it is mixed with parafin.

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                • #9
                  Just for refernece guys JP-5 is AV-TUR not AV-GAS, I know i'm nitpicking.
                  Av-GAS is for pistons and AV-TUR is for turbine engines.
                  Like I said I know i'm nit picking here but i'm pretty sure you would if I said something wrong about tanks or armoured stuff.
                  Anyway just after reading up it seems to have been a logs decision. Easier too transport one type of fuel than 2 or three different types.
                  Still though i'm impressed as AV-TUR is notoriously flammable when placed in confined space(safe as houses though when its not confined i've seen people drop a lit match into it and it doesn't catch fire, just quencehs the match, scared the shite out of me at hte time)
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                  • #10
                    Av_tur is not combustible at all..in all its forms..will only burn above 21degrees c....under compression....AV gas..on the other hand will burn at minus 14 degress c... nad burns at a bout 400 feet per second..

                    Allouettes will run on Jet B...which is a mixture of Diesel and petrol...a 1960s fuel which is not generaly available out side the military...although the old Aer lingus Shorts 360s were labelled to be able to run on the same.....

                    And if any body wants to question my answers..please take it up with the CAA fire school in Teeside...
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                    • #11
                      Still though i'm impressed as AV-TUR is notoriously flammable when placed in confined space
                      Can you elaborate a bit on that? Superficially it seems physically impossible, flammability ranges and all that lark.

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                      • #12
                        And the IMO experts strike again....


                        Catch-22 says they have a right to do anything we can't stop them from doing.

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by yellowjacket
                          Can you elaborate a bit on that? Superficially it seems physically impossible, flammability ranges and all that lark.
                          Like murf said under pressure i.e. confined space its what took that 747 down off of Long Island back a few years ago. Spark came in from outside wiring taht was bundled with the fuel probe wiring. This brough it the nitrogen topping off of fuel tanks( similar to INERGEN I think)
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                          • #14
                            Hang on, it was vapours, not fuel that blew up the TWA flight. It had some stupidly low level of fuel in the center tank, the spark set those off. And unless my physics is shot, vapours under high pressure become liquid.

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                            • #15
                              It's always vapors that burn. Solids do not burn, rather the vapors from the solids or liquids.
                              No-one, I think, is in my tree...

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