An opposed-piston engine is a piston engine in which each cylinder has a piston at both ends, and no cylinder head. Petrol and diesel opposed-piston engines...
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engine is a piston engine where the cylinders are located on either side of a central crankshaft. Flat engines are also known as horizontally opposed...
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A reciprocating engine, more often known as a piston engine, is a heat engine that uses one or more reciprocating pistons to convert high temperature...
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The Fairbanks-Morse 38 8-1/8 is a diesel engine of the two-stroke, opposed-piston type. It was developed in the 1930s, and is similar in arrangement to...
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Achates Power (redirect from Achates engine)
Achates Power is an American developer of opposed-piston, two-stroke, compression ignition engines for use in commercial and passenger vehicles. Based...
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the pistons to produce electrical power. The basic configuration of free-piston engines is commonly known as single piston, dual piston or opposed pistons...
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Napier Deltic (redirect from Delta engine)
The Napier Deltic engine is a British opposed-piston valveless, supercharged uniflow scavenged, two-stroke diesel engine used in marine and locomotive...
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piston engines, along with variants, such as the six-stroke piston engine and the Wankel rotary engine. A second class of internal combustion engines...
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A flat-four engine, also known as a horizontally opposed-four engine or boxer engine, is a four-cylinder piston engine with two banks of cylinders lying...
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Entering service in the early 1930s, the two-stroke Junkers Jumo 205 opposed-piston engine was much more widely used than previous aero diesels. It was moderately...
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split-single engine which debuted in the 1923 Puch LM racing motorcycle. Influenced by industrial opposed-piston engines, the Puch engine had asymmetric...
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Junkers Jumo 205 (category Opposed piston engines)
two-stroke cycle with 12 pistons sharing six cylinders, piston crown to piston crown in an opposed configuration. This unusual configuration required two...
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Atkinson cycle (redirect from Modified atkinson cycle engine)
first Atkinson-cycle engine, the differential engine, used opposed pistons. The second and best-known design was the cycle engine, which used an over-center...
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opposed to rotating around the entire engine. The design has also been referred to as a oscillating piston engine, vibratory engine when the pistons oscillate...
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Isaac (28 March 2017). Developing a 55% BTE Commercial Heavy-Duty Opposed-Piston Engine without a Waste Heat Recovery System. World Congress Experience...
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cylinder and drive the piston out. The gas mixture was ignited by an electric spark in the same manner as a modern internal combustion engine. In 1806 he moved...
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A flat-twelve engine, also known as a horizontally opposed-twelve, is a twelve-cylinder piston engine with six cylinders on each side of a central crankshaft...
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of internal-combustion engine, with two opposed pistons within each cylinder. The compression stroke involved the two pistons approaching each other,...
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Commer TS3 (category Opposed piston engines)
angle, and the opposed piston design of the TS3 was used so that it would fit in the same space. It is often thought that "TS" in the engine's name derives...
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The engine configuration describes the fundamental operating principles by which internal combustion engines are categorized. Piston engines are often...
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to the number banks in an opposed piston engine, limitations include cost, complexity and reliability. Multiple bank Engines with more than two banks,...
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Leyland L60 (category Opposed piston engines)
British 19-litre (1,200 cu in) vertical six-cylinder opposed-piston two-stroke multi-fuel diesel engine designed by Leyland Motors in the late 1950s/early...
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(or two-stroke cycle) engine is a type of internal combustion engine that completes a power cycle with two strokes of the piston, one up and one down,...
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Continental Aerospace Technologies (redirect from Continental engine)
standards for light aircraft piston engines. Powered by a liquid-cooled version of the IO-240, the Rutan Voyager was the first piston-powered aircraft to circumnavigate...
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Fairbanks-Morse (category Opposed piston engines)
of Fairbanks Morse proprietary and dual-fuel opposed-piston engines. The opposed-piston (OP) diesel engine once made by Fairbanks-Morse is still (August...
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The Michel engine was an unusual form of opposed-piston engine. It was unique in that its cylinders, instead of being open-ended cylinders containing...
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T-84 (section Engine and mobility)
in the Ukrainian Armed Forces in 1999. Its high-performance opposed-piston engine makes it a fast tank, comparable to other modern MBTs with a power-to-weight...
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Beloit, Wisconsin and has specialized in the manufacture of opposed-piston Diesel engines for United States Navy vessels and railroad locomotives since...
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the piston travels from top to bottom or vice versa. The type of power cycle used by a piston engine (e.g. two-stroke engine, four-stroke engine). "Stroke...
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Sulzer ZG9 (category Opposed piston engines)
Sulzer ZG9 was a pre-World War II opposed-piston two-stroke diesel engine by Sulzer. The engine was available with a choice of two, three and four cylinders...
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