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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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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Inert gas generator (IGG) refers to machinery on board marine product tankers. Inert gas generators consist distinctively of a gas producer and a scrubbing...
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The gas-generator cycle, also called open cycle, is one of the most commonly used power cycles in bipropellant liquid rocket engines. Propellant is burned...
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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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electricity generation, a generator, also called an electric generator, electrical generator, and electromagnetic generator is an electromechanical device...
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Free-piston engine (redirect from Free-piston gas generator)
powerplants. Attempts were made to use free-piston gas generators for vehicle propulsion (e.g. in gas turbine locomotives) but without success. Modern applications...
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A turbo generator is an electric generator connected to the shaft of a turbine (water, steam, or gas) for the generation of electric power. Large steam-powered...
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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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gas. The hot exhaust gas from an MHD generator can heat the boilers of a steam power plant, increasing overall efficiency. Practical MHD generators have...
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oxidation. Endothermic gas is often used as a carrier gas for gas carburizing and carbonitriding. An endothermic gas generator could be used to supply...
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valve. The gas generator is ignited by the hot gases from the booster combustion which flow through the open control valve. The gas generator contains an...
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inert gas generator. The inert gas system is used to prevent the atmosphere in cargo tanks or bunkers from coming into the explosive range. Inert gases keep...
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Staged combustion cycle (redirect from Gas-gas engine)
combustion cycle is sometimes referred to as closed cycle, as opposed to the gas generator, or open cycle where a portion of propellant never reaches the main...
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extending just past the base, and placing a small gas generator to the rear part of the shell. The gas generator provides little to no thrust, but fills the...
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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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Combined cycle power plant (redirect from Combined cycle gas turbine)
conventional gas turbine. A typical single-shaft system has one gas turbine, one steam turbine, one generator and one heat recovery steam generator (HRSG)....
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generator with its own engine Wearable generator, a hypothetical generator that can be worn on the human body Gas generator a device, often similar to a solid...
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combined-cycle jet engine. The basic layout includes a gas generator, which produces high pressure gas, that drives a turbine/compressor assembly which compresses...
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engine as a gas generator. It was followed by two further locomotives, Class 060-GA-1 of 2,400 hp (1.8 MW) in 1959–61. The Pescara gas generator in 040-GA-1...
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natural gas and propane (liquid or gas). Some engines may also operate on diesel and gas simultaneously (bi-fuel operation). Many engine–generators use a...
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to as suction gas. The term suction refers to the way the air was drawn into the gas generator by an internal combustion engine. Wood gas is produced in...
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fuel gas generator produces a hot fuel-rich gas which is burnt in the ramcombustor with the compressed air supplied by the intake(s). The flow of gas improves...
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materials are gasified within the oxygen-limited environment of a wood gas generator to produce a combustible mixture. In some gasifiers this process is...
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commercially from 1893 and acetylene generators were used from about 1898 to produce gas for gas cooking and gas lighting, however electricity took over...
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Oxygen concentrator (redirect from PSA oxygen generator)
known as oxygen gas generators or oxygen generation plants. Two methods in common use are pressure swing adsorption and membrane gas separation. Pressure...
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favorable properties of hydrogen gas, this is the most common type in its field today. Based on the air-cooled turbo generator, gaseous hydrogen first went...
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Conventional gas-generators are in practice miniature rocket engines, with all the complexity that implies. Blocking even a small part of a gas generator can lead...
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generators GAZ-41: gas generator (wood gas) version with NATI-G14 generator GAZ-42: improved GAZ-41 GAZ-42M: modernized GAZ-42 GAZ-43: gas generator (coal...
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A Van de Graaff generator is an electrostatic generator which uses a moving belt to accumulate electric charge on a hollow metal globe on the top of an...
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