• Combustion Engineering (C-E) was a multi-national American-based engineering firm that developed nuclear steam supply power systems in the United States...
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    Combustion, or burning, is a high-temperature exothermic redox chemical reaction between a fuel (the reductant) and an oxidant, usually atmospheric oxygen...
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    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 chamber...
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  • Combustion efficiency refers to the effectiveness of the burning process in converting fuel into heat energy. It is measured by the proportion of fuel...
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    while its main disadvantage is engineering complexity. Typically, propellant flows through two kinds of combustion chambers; the first called preburner...
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  • the combustion of a specified amount of it. The calorific value is the total energy released as heat when a substance undergoes complete combustion with...
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  • various engineering applications like: internal combustion engines, aircraft engines, rocket engines, furnaces, and power station combustors, combustion manifests...
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    Eventually, other international companies such as Babcock & Wilcox and Combustion Engineering began their own programs for research and development of the nuclear...
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  • System 80 was a similar vintage nuclear steam supply system made by Combustion Engineering.) Further development of the 4-loop reactor and the ice-condenser...
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    ABB (category Engineering companies of Sweden)
    been the subject of controversy on multiple occasions. US-based Combustion Engineering, acquired by ABB in 1990, exposed the company to asbestos-related...
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    as the Marshall Field Building, Astor Estate Building, International Combustion Building, and Tower Building) is a 25-story office building in the Murray...
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  • System 80 is a pressurized water reactor design by Combustion Engineering (which was subsequently bought by Asea Brown Boveri and eventually merged into...
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  • Laminar flamelet model (category Combustion engineering)
    for modelling turbulent combustion. The laminar flamelet model is formulated specifically as a model for non-premixed combustion The concept of ensemble...
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    Luminous flame (category Combustion engineering)
    Producing a deliberately luminous flame requires either a shortage of combustion air (as in a Bunsen burner) or a local excess of fuel (as for a kerosene...
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    and a draft of 25.9 feet (7.9 m). Propulsion is provided by two Combustion Engineering boilers, connected to two Westinghouse turbines. These supply 70...
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    Bunsen burner (category Combustion engineering)
    a single open gas flame, and is used for heating, sterilization, and combustion. The gas can be natural gas (which is mainly methane) or a liquefied petroleum...
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    pressurized water reactors (one from Westinghouse and one from Combustion Engineering), were sold to Dominion Resources by Northeast Utilities in 2000...
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    water reactors, with the nuclear steam supply system provided by Combustion Engineering. The architect/engineer for the plant was EBASCO, who also were...
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    earlier OPR-1000 design and also incorporates features from the US Combustion Engineering (C-E) System 80+ design. Currently in South Korea there are 4 units...
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    A welder making boilers at the Combustion Engineering Company in Chattanooga, Tennessee in June 1942. Despite their name, blue-collar workers do not always...
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  • OPR-1000 in 2005 for foreign sales. It was developed based on the Combustion Engineering (C-E)'s system 80 design, through a technology transfer agreement...
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  • the gas define those proportions, i.e. the ignitable range. In combustion engineering terms, the admission of inert gas can be said to dilute the oxygen...
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  • gaseous fuel present in a combustion process. The combustion may take place in a controlled manner such as in an internal combustion engine or industrial furnace...
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  • combined customer lifetime values of all of the company's customers Combustion Engineering, a former American manufacturer of power systems Nationwide Airlines...
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    Fluidized bed (category Combustion engineering)
    from industrial exhaust Unit operation – Other Engineering unit operations Chemical looping combustion – Dual fluidized bed application Peng, Z.; Moghtaderi...
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  • platform 1 = First generation core designed by the contractor C = Combustion Engineering (C-E) was the contracted designer This nuclear reactor was built...
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    retired from Draper Gaither, moved to Washington, D.C., and joined Combustion Engineering in New York as chairman, retiring a few years later to become the...
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    A hydrogen internal combustion engine vehicle (HICEV) is a type of hydrogen vehicle using an internal combustion engine that burns hydrogen fuel. Hydrogen...
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    Guillermo Rein (category Combustion engineering)
    in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Imperial College London. His research is focused on fire, combustion, and heat transfer. He is the editor-in-chief...
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    two power generating units. Two 550 MW boilers were supplied by Combustion Engineering (ABB) and two 575 MW boilers were supplied by Babcock & Wilcox....
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