expansion engine

Multiple expansion engine manufacture continued well into the 20th century.

By the 1870s triple expansion engines were being used on ships.

The image to the right shows an animation of a triple expansion engine.

The four ships were powered by two 3-cylinder single expansion engines.

Their machinery system consisted of 2-shaft 4-cylinder vertical triple expansion engines.

The ship had triple expansion engines that could generate 5,000 horsepower.

Her propulsion system consisted of two horizontal 2-cylinder double expansion engines.

They built the first triple expansion engine to be used on the Great Lakes.

However, the Orlandos were the first class of cruiser to use the triple expansion engine.

A quadruple expansion engine expands the steam in four stages, and so on.

As with the double expansion engine, if space is at a premium, then two smaller cylinders may be used for the low pressure stage.

Blücher was equipped with three vertical 4-cylinder triple expansion engines.

The ships were powered by two sets of 3-cylinder triple expansion engines, each in its own engine room.

The later three ships had quadruple expansion engines, aggregating 33,000 horse power.

Simple engines are always also simple expansion engines by necessity.

The result is the multiple expansion engine.

In 1897-8 she was fitted with quadruple expansion engines and her masts reduced to two.

Corvettes were small enough to be built in merchant shipyards and used triple expansion engines.

The vertical triple expansion engines consumed large amounts of internal space that could otherwise have been used for magazines.

She was equipped with two triple expansion engines driving twin screws at 5500 l.h.p.

Machinery consisted of two four-cylinder vertical triple expansion engines.

Multiple expansion engines typically had the cylinders arranged inline, but various other formations were used.

Note that a compound engine (including multiple expansion engines, see below) can have more than one set of variable-pressure cylinders.

She was powered by three 3-cylinder vertical triple expansion engines that drove three screws.

The ship retained 3-shaft triple expansion engines instead of more advanced turbine engines.