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...

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...

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...

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...

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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therefore find examples of engines classified under both methods. An engine can be a compound walking beam type, compound being the cylinder technology...

Arthur Woolf, who compounded the cylinders; and William McNaught, who devised a method of compounding an existing engine. Beam engines were first used to...

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...

Chemical compound, combination of two or more elements Plastic compounding, a method of preparing plastic formulations Compound engine, a steam engine in which...

The compounding system's integration into the cylinder saddle made conversion to conventional engines straightforward, so most Vauclain compounds were...

engine (1700) Newcomen engine (1712) Watt engine (1775) Hornblower (1781) Trevithick (1799) Woolf (1804) Cornish engine (1812) McNaught'ed compound beam...

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...

high-pressure compound steam engine. In this way he made an outstanding contribution to the development and perfection of the Cornish engine. Woolf left...

efficiency. Compound engines gave further improvements in efficiency. By the 1870s triple-expansion engines were being used on ships. Compound engines allowed...

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...

engineer. In 1765, he began experimenting with working models of steam-engine-powered vehicles for the French Army, intended for transporting cannons...

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...

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...

Willans' engine was one of the best-known examples of the steeple compound engine. These were double- or triple-expansion compound engines, with the...

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...

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...

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...

In mechanical engineering, the cylinders of reciprocating engines are often classified by whether they are single- or double-acting, depending on how...

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...

US Navy ship with the older compound engine design; later ships had more powerful and efficient triple expansion engines. Unlike some contemporary designs...

replaced with gears. In America traction engines fitted with continuous tracks were being used from 1869. Compound engine designs were introduced in 1881. Until...

phases can be discerned: 'low' pressure compound engines and 'high' pressure compound engines. The compound engine with low (as it would later be called)...

000 psi and flow rate of 900 lb/hr. The engine was an ingenious three-crank tandem (or steeple) compound engine with three pairs of vertical single-acting...

increasingly lower pressures. These engines are called compound engines. Aside from looking at the power that the engine can produce, the mean effective pressure...