An internal combustion engine (ICE or IC engine) is a heat engine in which the combustion of a fuel occurs with an oxidizer (usually air) in a combustion...
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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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making steam engines more efficient, the compounding of engines by use of several stages has also been used on internal combustion engines and continues...
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six-stroke engine is one of several alternative internal combustion engine designs that attempt to improve on traditional two-stroke and four-stroke engines. Claimed...
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The five-stroke engine is a compound internal combustion engine patented by Gerhard Schmitz in 2000. The goal of the five-stroke engine is to achieve higher...
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Eisenhuth Horseless Vehicle Company (redirect from Compound (automobile))
automobile was an unusual model called the Compound with a three-cylinder compound internal combustion engine. Two were working cylinders, the larger middle...
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spark-ignition internal combustion engines, knocking (also knock, detonation, spark knock, pinging or pinking) occurs when combustion of some of the air/fuel...
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CVCC (redirect from Compound Vortex Controlled Combustion)
or Compound Vortex Controlled Combustion (Japanese: 複合渦流調整燃焼方式, Hepburn: Fukugō Uzuryū Chōsei Nenshō Hōshiki), is an internal combustion engine technology...
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internal combustion engine, used extensively in motor vehicles; the steam engine, the mainstay of the Industrial Revolution; and the Stirling engine for...
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the combustion process and any contaminants it may produce from the working parts of the engine. This contrasts with an internal combustion engine, where...
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hemispherical combustion chamber is a combustion chamber in the cylinder head of an internal combustion engine with a domed "hemispheric" shape. An engine featuring...
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piston, which turns a crankshaft. Unlike internal combustion engines, a reaction engine (such as a jet engine) produces thrust by expelling reaction mass...
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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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classifications of thermal engines- Internal combustion (gasoline, diesel and gas turbine-Brayton cycle engines) and External combustion engines (steam piston, steam...
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A small engine is the general term for a wide range of small-displacement, low-powered internal combustion engines used to power lawn mowers, generators...
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The split-cycle engine is a type of internal combustion engine. In a conventional Otto cycle engine, each cylinder performs four strokes per cycle: intake...
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products of combustion in the case of the internal combustion engine or simply vented to the environment in the case of external combustion engines like steam...
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before exhaust Turbo-compound engine, an internal combustion engine where exhaust gases expand through power-turbines Compounding pressure, a method in...
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internal combustion engines resulted in the gradual replacement of steam engines in commercial usage. Steam turbines replaced reciprocating engines in...
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enthalpy of combustion, called high(er) and low(er) heat(ing) value, depending on how much the products are allowed to cool and whether compounds like H 2O...
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Scramjet (redirect from Supersonic-combustion ramjet)
A scramjet (supersonic combustion ramjet) is a variant of a ramjet airbreathing jet engine in which combustion takes place in supersonic airflow. As in...
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The Internal Fire Museum of Power is a museum of internal combustion engines in West Wales. The museum's collection is mostly of larger stationary diesel...
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example can be seen in the combustion of hydrogen and oxygen into water vapor, a reaction which is commonly used to fuel rocket engines. This reaction releases...
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turbogenerator is located downstream of a turbocharger turbine of an internal combustion engine (ICE). The power generated from the ETC system can be used to...
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Hybrid vehicle drivetrain (category Engines)
generally combine a battery (or supercapacitor) supplemented by an internal combustion engine (ICE) that can either recharge the batteries or power the vehicle...
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Nitromethane (category Organic compounds with 1 carbon atom)
motorsports and hobbies, e.g. Top Fuel drag racing and miniature internal combustion engines in radio control, control line and free flight model aircraft...
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The Ford CHT engine is an inline four-cylinder internal combustion engine family produced by the Ford Motor Company in Brazil during the 1980s and 1990s...
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Stroke, also known as Powerstroke, is the name used by a family of diesel engines for trucks produced by Ford Motor Company and Navistar International (until...
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versions of the W-series engine were capable of operating at speeds well beyond 6000 rpm. The combustion chamber of the W-series engine was in the upper part...
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A T-head engine is an early type of internal combustion engine that became obsolete after World War I. It is a sidevalve engine distinguished from the...
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