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Emergency diesel shutdown
On Sun, 07 Dec 2003 10:12:43 -0500, Harry Krause
wrote: Shut off the fuel supply, block the air intake and keep a load on the engine. You sure as hell don't want to pump CO2 down the airpipe. ========================= Sounds about right to me. I'd start with shutting off the fuel. That will work about 99.9% of the time. There's a rare condition however where the engine will continue to run on it's own crankcase oil, which gets quickly consumed with disasterous consequences. For that, you need a way to cut off the air intake. I once had a dangerous and freak condition where a small sailboat diesel continued to run at high revs after I had shut it down. As soon as the engine compartment was opened it stopped running but not before the smell of gasoline fumes hit me. It turned out that a small amount of dinghy gas had spilled into the bilge and the diesel was running on the fumes! Lucky we weren't blown up. |
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