An external combustion engine (EC engine) is a reciprocating heat engine where a working fluid, contained internally, is heated by combustion in an external...

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...

types: Internal combustion engine External combustion engine This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Combustion engine. If an internal...

generated external to the Stirling engine rather than by internal combustion as with the Otto cycle or Diesel cycle engines. This type of engine is currently...

output shaft). This contrasts an external combustion engine, where the combustion takes place in a separate part of the engine to where the gas pressure is...

classifications of thermal engines- Internal combustion (gasoline, diesel and gas turbine-Brayton cycle engines) and External combustion engines (steam piston, steam...

invented in China. Following the first commercial steam engine (a type of external combustion engine) by Thomas Savery in 1698, various efforts were made...

A spark-ignition engine (SI engine) is an internal combustion engine, generally a petrol engine, where the combustion process of the air-fuel mixture is...

mechanical heat engine in which heat from the combustion of a fuel causes rapid pressurisation of the gaseous combustion products in the combustion chamber,...

by nuclear reaction. ECE Vehicle - External Combustion Engine Vehicle - vehicle drives on external combustion engine. These vehicles are propelled by at...

The diesel engine, named after the German engineer Rudolf Diesel, is an internal combustion engine in which ignition of diesel fuel is caused by the elevated...

piston engine. This can be used for either an internal combustion engine, where the fuel is burned within the cylinders of the engine, or external combustion...

cylinder external combustion engine". "External combustion engine". Porter, K. W., Constant Volume Continuous External Combustion Rotary Engine with Piston...

closed cycle engine of Robert Stirling. Hot air engines are distinct from the better known internal combustion based engine and steam engine. In a typical...

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...

A hydrogen internal combustion engine vehicle (HICEV) is a type of hydrogen vehicle using an internal combustion engine that burns hydrogen fuel. Hydrogen...

pp. 54, 57. ISBN 978-1-904842-42-2. "Cyclone Power to Showcase External Combustion Engine at SAE Event". greencarcongress.com. Green Car Congress. 20 September...

systems as fuel cells, internal combustion engines, or turbines, because it functions as an external combustion engine. Alkali-metal thermal to electric...

internal combustion engine or external combustion engine Spontaneous human combustion Combustion (album), 2005 album by Decoded Feedback Combustion (film)...

of the Stoddard engine, the first in 1919 and the second in 1933. The general engine classification is an external combustion engine with valves and single-phase...

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...

internal combustion engine Pulse jet engine, an internal combustion engine wherein the combustion occurs in pulses External combustion engine, an engine where...

The hot-bulb engine, also known as a semi-diesel or Akroyd engine, is a type of internal combustion engine in which fuel ignites by coming in contact...

The Otto engine is a large stationary single-cylinder internal combustion four-stroke engine, designed by the German Nicolaus Otto. It was a low-RPM machine...

modified Stirling engine has been introduced that uses concepts taken from a patented internal-combustion engine with a sidewall combustion chamber (US patent...

staged combustion cycle (sometimes known as topping cycle, preburner cycle, or closed cycle) is a power cycle of a bipropellant rocket engine. In the...

A stratified charge engine describes a certain type of internal combustion engine, usually spark ignition (SI) engine that can be used in trucks, automobiles...

thermodynamic cycles, see heat engine. The Ericsson engine is based on the Ericsson cycle, and is known as an "external combustion engine", because it is externally...

early engines and transmissions. Such engines could be external combustion engines (such as stationary steam engines), or internal combustion engines (such...

overhead camshaft (OHC) engine is a piston engine in which the camshaft is located in the cylinder head above the combustion chamber. This contrasts with...