Livio Dante Porta (21 March 1922 – 10 June 2003) was an Argentine steam locomotive engineer. He is particularly remembered for his innovative modifications...
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Advanced steam technology (section Livio Dante Porta)
an early example of advanced steam technology. Chapelon's protégé Livio Dante Porta continued Chapelon's work. Postwar in the late 1940s and 1950s some...
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footballer Livio Pavanelli (1881–1958), Italian actor Livio Pin (born 1953), Italian footballer Livio Dante Porta (1922–2003), Argentine engineer Livio Prieto...
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noted Argentinian locomotive engineer Livio Dante Porta (d. 2003). The name is a stylization of LeMaitre Porta Exhaust. In a steam locomotive, draft is...
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locomotive exhaust system developed by noted Argentine locomotive engineer Livio Dante Porta. In a steam locomotive, draft is produced in the firebox by exhausting...
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noted Argentine locomotive engineer Livio Dante Porta. The ejector's name is a portmanteau of the names of Porta and Belgian locomotive engineer Maurice...
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influenced the work of many later designers of those locomotives, such as Livio Dante Porta. André Xavier Chapelon was born in Saint-Paul-en-Cornillon, Loire...
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rugby union footballer Livio Dante Porta (1923–2003), Argentine engineer Luigi Porta (1800–1875), Italian surgeon Miquel Porta (born 1957), Spanish epidemiologist...
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Compound locomotive (section Porta)
Mackersie Smith; Samuel Waite Johnson; Richard Deeley; André Chapelon, Livio Dante Porta.) 1 high pressure, 2 low pressure; HP from HP boiler superheated,...
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improved by the Argentine engineer Livio Dante Porta, who devised the Lempor (a portmanteau of Lemaître and Porta) and later the Lemprex exhaust systems...
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some success in France and England. The noted Argentinian engineer, Livio Dante Porta, designed several: the Kylpor, Lempor and Lemprex systems. Several...
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treatment e.g. Porta Treatment (minimizes and virtually prevents scale buildup) is named after the Argentine locomotive engineer Livio Dante Porta, who invented...
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some of the SR V Schools class. The design was later improved by Livio Dante Porta, who created the Lempor and Lemprex, named after a combination of...
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hearing of the project in October 1991, Argentine locomotive engineer Livio Dante Porta contacted the trust, hailing the project as the start of a "renaissance...
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most of the developed world came to an end, the Argentinean engineer Livio Dante Porta continued to work on developing steam locomotive exhaust systems,...
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Traitement Integral Armand (TIA), developed by Louis Armand Porta Treatment, developed by Livio Dante Porta Boiler feedwater pump Evaporator Helamin Lyon, Frank...
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improvements to existing designs. Advanced steam technology Andre Chapelon Livio Dante Porta Steam locomotives of the 21st century Chapelon, Andre (2000), La Locomotive...
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biological anthropologist Raúl Pateras Pescara, helicopter pioneer Livio Dante Porta, mechanical engineer Marta Graciela Rovira, solar physicist Jorge...
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higher-speed steam locomotive, incorporating the improvements proposed by Livio Dante Porta and others, and using torrefied biomass as solid fuel. The fuel has...
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was studied by steam locomotive designers such as Andre Chapelon, Livio Dante Porta and David Wardale. These designers based their modern steam locomotives...
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different means. Further development was carried on by Chapelon's friend Livio Dante Porta, who developed the Kylpor, Lempor and Lemprex exhausts systems. He...
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president of Norfolk and Western Railway (died 1993) March 22 – Livio Dante Porta, Argentinian steam locomotive mechanical engineer (died 2003) July...
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different blastpipe arrangements, and notably worked with Livio Dante Porta and Hunslet to create the Porta locomotives. The NCB also upgraded many of its locomotives...
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with subsequent application of modern steam principles advocated by Livio Dante Porta. These modifications have improved the locomotives' performance, reliability...
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based on the principles developed by Argentinian mechanical engineer Livio Dante Porta. The primary objectives of the modifications were to improve the combustion...
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Vapor (Bariloche–Perito Moreno) (archived) 'Argentina' locomotive by Livio Dante Porta & Co. Ltd. on Martynbane.co.uk Railway map of Argentina at Satélite...
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final batch of ten 2-10-2 steam locomotives to a design improved by Livio Dante Porta for the isolated Ramal Ferro Industrial Río Turbio (RFIRP) 750 mm...
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shipping from Río Gallegos, Santa Cruz. These required modification by Livio Dante Porta to achieve their full potential. Ten more powerful examples were introduced...
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individual road race, men's team road race at the 1948 Summer Olympics). Livio Dante Porta, 81, Argentine steam locomotive engineer. Donald Regan, 84, American...
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Double chimney (section L.D.Porta's Argentina)
Sacramento, California at the California State Railroad Museum. Livio Dante Porta's experimental meter gauge locomotive Argentina was a 1948 rebuild...
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