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Originally Posted by SteamWake
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Originally Posted by Torpex752
US Subs had what was called a clean fuel oil tank, and in fact even modern submarines have a similar setup with diesel on top and seawater on bottom. No high tech gizmo here just a simple seperator tank. So, not blasting you, but there is more than one reference in the books about this fuel/ballast tank. It did exist and was used for fuel & once empty, ballast tank.
Frank "Torpex" Kulick
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Amazing... although it makes sense because the oil would 'float' above the seawater. I guess they pull the fuel off the top of the tank.
Probably have some damn good fuel/water seperators. I can imagine that in rough conditions the two might mix up to some degree.
I can see filling the 'empty' tank with sea water to keep things balanced too makes sense. |
Even though they did it then & we do it now, and I know how it works...it still amazes me how well it works. :rotfl:
On the nuke boats I was on, we had a waste oil collection tank that the bilges would get pumped to. It has a mixture of seawater & oil leaks from the bilges. We could pump it after so many hours of being pumped into, to allow it to seperate. We'd pump just the seawater out at sea, and in port the waste oil to a tanker on the pier.
Frank "Torpex" Kulick
Subsim Staff