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    The gas-generator cycle, also referred to as the GG cycle or colloquially as an open cycle, is one of the most commonly used power cycles in bipropellant...
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  • A gas generator is a device for generating gas. A gas generator may create gas by a chemical reaction or from a solid or liquid source, when storing a...
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    thrust. The staged combustion cycle is sometimes referred to as closed cycle, as opposed to the gas generator, or open cycle where a portion of propellant...
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  • Thumbnail for Combined cycle power plant
    electricity the most common type is called a combined cycle gas turbine (CCGT) plant, which is a kind of gas-fired power plant. The same principle is also used...
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    the power-producing part (known as the gas generator or core) and are, in the direction of flow: a rotating gas compressor a combustor a compressor-driving...
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  • gas (a plasma) as the moving conductor. The mechanical dynamo, in contrast, uses the motion of mechanical devices to accomplish this. MHD generators are...
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    gas-generator cycle). Since fuel is exhausted, the tap-off cycle is considered an open-cycle engine. The cycle is comparable to a gas-generator cycle...
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    propane that easily reaches its boiling point. Some expander cycle engines may use a gas generator of some kind to start the turbine and run the engine until...
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    A wood gas generator is a gasification unit which converts timber or charcoal into wood gas, a producer gas consisting of atmospheric nitrogen, carbon...
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  • YF-209 (category Rocket engines using the gas-generator cycle)
    cryogenic rocket engine burning liquid methane and liquid oxygen in a gas-generator cycle. The engine is designed for reusability and commercial use and is...
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    preferred to open cycle gas turbines, due to their superior efficiencies. The packaged combination of a diesel engine, a generator, and various auxiliary...
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  • Lingyun (rocket engine) (category Rocket engines using the gas-generator cycle)
    (Chinese: 凌云; pinyin: Língyún, lit. Soaring above the clouds) is a gas-generator cycle rocket engine burning liquid methane and liquid oxygen under development...
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  • take place no earlier than 2026. The first stage will use 13 Aeon R gas generator cycle engines that use liquid oxygen and methane propellant. Nine of the...
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  • Longyun (rocket engine) (category Rocket engines using the gas-generator cycle)
    is a gas-generator cycle rocket engine burning liquid methane and liquid oxygen under development by Jiuzhou Yunjian. In 2018, the gas generator test...
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    pump-fed. Pump-fed engines work in a gas-generator cycle, a staged-combustion cycle, or an expander cycle. Gas-generator engines tend to be used on booster...
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    Aerojet M-1 (category Rocket engines using the gas-generator cycle)
    1963. The M-1 used the gas-generator cycle, burning some of its liquid hydrogen and oxygen in a small combustor to provide hot gases for running the fuel...
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    Rocketdyne J-2 (category Rocket engines using the gas-generator cycle)
    the original J-2 design was a change from the gas generator cycle to a tap-off cycle that supplied hot gas from a tap on the combustion chamber instead...
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    Correction Engines S5.4: Liquid engine burning TG-02 and AK20F in the gas generator cycle. Used to deorbit Vostok, Voskhod and Zenit. S5.35: Backup engine...
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    needed] Copenhagen Suborbitals' Spica Gas-generator cycle Combustion tap-off cycle Expander cycle Staged combustion cycle Electric-pump-fed engine "LM Descent...
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    recovery steam generator (HRSG) is a heat exchanger that recovers heat from a hot gas stream, such as a combustion turbine or other waste gas stream. It produces...
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    Example engine is the Rutherford designed and used by Rocket Lab. Gas-generator cycle A small percentage of the propellants are burnt in a preburner to...
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  • trademark of fashion house Gucci GG, a bra size GG cycle, a rocket engine operation method, see gas-generator cycle Gee Gee (disambiguation) Gigi (disambiguation)...
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    thermodynamic efficiency. In a simple cycle gas-turbine, also known as open-cycle gas-turbine (OCGT) generators, hot gas drives a gas turbine to generate electricity...
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    Combustion tap-off cycle Expander cycle Gas-generator cycle Pressure-fed engine Rocket engine Solid-propellant rocket Staged combustion cycle George Paul Sutton...
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    It burns liquid hydrogen fuel and liquid oxygen oxidizer using a gas generator cycle. A pair of these engines powers the LM-5 core stage. Each engine...
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    Carnot cycle. Heat pump cycles and refrigeration cycles can be classified as vapor compression, vapor absorption, gas cycle, or Stirling cycle types....
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    RD-0109 (category Rocket engines using the gas-generator cycle)
    is a rocket engine burning liquid oxygen and kerosene in a gas generator combustion cycle. It has single nozzle and is an evolution of the RD-0105. It...
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  • Archimedes (rocket engine) (category Rocket engines using the gas-generator cycle)
    biggest 3D printers in the world. The rationale for the cycle change from the original gas generator was that they could not get the performance they needed...
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    an electric generator which converts rotary motion into electricity. Fuels such as natural gas or oil can also be burnt directly in gas turbines (internal...
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  • Thumbnail for Hypergolic propellant
    launch vehicles use turbopumps, most hypergolic engines are pressure fed. A gas, usually helium, is fed to the propellant tanks under pressure through a...
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