A compound engine is an engine that has more than one stage for recovering energy from the same working fluid, with the exhaust from the first stage passing...
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A compound steam engine unit is a type of steam engine where steam is expanded in two or more stages. A typical arrangement for a compound engine is that...
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A turbo-compound engine is a reciprocating engine that employs a turbine to recover energy from the exhaust gases. Instead of using that energy to drive...
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A steam engine is a heat engine that performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid. The steam engine uses the force produced by steam pressure...
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Arthur Woolf, who compounded the cylinders; and William McNaught, who devised a method of compounding an existing engine. Beam engines were first used to...
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therefore find examples of engines classified under both methods. An engine can be a compound walking beam type, compound being the cylinder technology...
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A steeple compound engine is a form of tandem compound steam engine that is constructed as an inverted vertical engine. Because of their great height,...
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A compound locomotive is a steam locomotive which is powered by a compound engine, a type of steam engine where steam is expanded in two or more stages...
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engine (1700) Newcomen engine (1712) Watt engine (1775) Hornblower (1781) Trevithick (1799) Woolf (1804) Cornish engine (1812) McNaught'ed compound beam...
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A compound internal combustion engine is a type of internal combustion engine (ICE) where gasses of combustion are expanded in two or more stages. A typical...
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efficiency. Compound engines gave further improvements in efficiency. By the 1870s triple-expansion engines were being used on ships. Compound engines allowed...
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Chemical compound, combination of two or more elements Plastic compounding, a method of preparing plastic formulations Compound engine, a steam engine in which...
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1664 – 5 August 1729) was an English inventor, creator of the atmospheric engine in 1712, Baptist preacher by calling and ironmonger by trade. He was born...
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Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation (category Four-engined tractor aircraft)
R-3350-972-TC18DA-1 turbo-compound engines on the L-1049C had a new turbine system, the Power Recovery Turbines (PRT). Each engine's exhaust gas flowed through...
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Arthur Woolf (redirect from Woolf compound engine)
high-pressure compound steam engine. In this way he made an outstanding contribution to the development and perfection of the Cornish engine. Woolf left...
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Wright R-3350 Duplex-Cyclone (category Turbo-compound engines)
Superfortress. After the war, the engine had matured sufficiently to be used in many civilian airliners, notably in its turbo-compound forms, and was used in the...
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engineer. In 1765, he began experimenting with working models of steam-engine-powered vehicles for the French Army, intended for transporting cannons...
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The compounding system's integration into the cylinder saddle made conversion to conventional engines straightforward, so most Vauclain compounds were...
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A Cornish engine is a type of steam engine developed in Cornwall, England, mainly for pumping water from a mine. It is a form of beam engine that uses...
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continued by William Sims. In a parallel, Arthur Woolf developed a compound engine with two cylinders, so that steam expanded in a high-pressure cylinder...
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Connecting rod (category Engine technology)
A connecting rod, also called a 'con rod', is the part of a piston engine which connects the piston to the crankshaft. Together with the crank, the connecting...
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competitive with sail. As one of the first British steamships to use a compound engine, Carnatic achieved a much better fuel economy (at 2lbs of coal per...
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Willans' engine was one of the best-known examples of the steeple compound engine. These were double- or triple-expansion compound engines, with the...
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Waesland. Red Star replaced her engine with a compound engine which, in 1889, was replaced in turn with a triple expansion engine. In 1895 she was chartered...
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Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company (category Marine engine manufacturers)
phases can be discerned: 'low' pressure compound engines and 'high' pressure compound engines. The compound engine with low (as it would later be called)...
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erection. 1781 (1781): Jonathan Hornblower patents a two-cylinder "compound" engine, in which the steam pushes on one piston (as opposed to pulling via...
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Crosshead (category Engine technology)
in a trunk engine. Therefore, the longitudinal dimension of the crosshead must be matched to the stroke of the engine. On smaller engines, the connecting...
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Napier Nomad (category Turbo-compound engines)
5 MW) class engine with good fuel economy. Curtiss-Wright was designing an engine of this sort of power known as the turbo-compound engine, but Sir Harry...
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Steamship (category Steam engine technology)
The compound engine, where steam was expanded twice in two separate cylinders, still had inefficiencies. The solution was the triple expansion engine, in...
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