Abstract

THE position of liquid fuel has increased in importance far beyond any expectations its most enthusiastic advocates of but little more than a decade ago ever dreamed, due to the rapid advances made in its use in internal combustion engines. The success of engines of the Diesel type, which can employ crude oil or heavier residues after the lighter fractions of the crude oil have been removed for other applications, has furnished the completing link in the use of oil in such engines. With the petrol engine, slow-speed oil engines working on ordinary burning oil (kerosene), and the Diesel and semi-Diesel engines, high efficiency is now assured with any fraction of the natural oil.

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