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    The Brayton cycle, also known as the Joule cycle, is a thermodynamic cycle that describes the operation of certain heat engines that have air or some other...
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    steam. It can therefore be considered a combination of the Brayton cycle and the Rankine cycle. It was named for Dr. Dah Yu Cheng. The company founded by...
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    engine cycles and developing practical engines based on these cycles. His first cycle is now known as the closed Brayton cycle, while his second cycle is...
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    for the gas turbine, and which is now referred to as the Brayton cycle. In 1872 George Brayton patented a constant pressure internal combustion engine...
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    Gas refrigeration cycles include the reversed Brayton cycle and the Hampson–Linde cycle. Multiple compression and expansion cycles allow gas refrigeration...
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    Rankine cycle into a unified process called the regenerative supercritical cycle (RGSC). It is optimised for temperature sources 125–450 °C. Brayton cycle Power...
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    The Atkinson-cycle engine is a type of internal combustion engine invented by James Atkinson in 1882. The Atkinson cycle is designed to provide efficiency...
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    combined cycle consists of two power plant cycles. One is the Joule or Brayton cycle which is a gas turbine cycle and the other is the Rankine cycle which...
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    A Carnot cycle is an ideal thermodynamic cycle proposed by French physicist Sadi Carnot in 1824 and expanded upon by others in the 1830s and 1840s. By...
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    Otto cycle is an idealized thermodynamic cycle that describes the functioning of a typical spark ignition piston engine. It is the thermodynamic cycle most...
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    than a vapor compression cycle because the gas cycle works on the reverse Brayton cycle instead of the reverse Rankine cycle. As such, the working fluid...
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    The Diesel cycle is a combustion process of a reciprocating internal combustion engine. In it, fuel is ignited by heat generated during the compression...
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  • diesel and gas turbine-Brayton cycle engines) and External combustion engines (steam piston, steam turbine, and the Stirling cycle engine). Each of these...
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    The Stirling cycle is a thermodynamic cycle that describes the general class of Stirling devices. This includes the original Stirling engine that was invented...
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    Dugald Clerk (redirect from Clark cycle)
    experiment with a Brayton ready motor in 1878 led him to make improvements that would eventually result in the development of the two-stroke cycle. Clerks engine...
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    In engineering, the Miller cycle is a thermodynamic cycle used in a type of internal combustion engine. The Miller cycle was patented by Ralph Miller...
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    combustion cycle (also known as the mixed cycle, Trinkler cycle, Seiliger cycle or Sabathe cycle) is a thermal cycle that is a combination of the Otto cycle and...
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    the Stirling engine is a closed-cycle regenerative heat engine, with a permanent gaseous working fluid. Closed-cycle, in this context, means a thermodynamic...
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    Heat engine (redirect from Cycle efficiency)
    (ICE): Otto cycle (e.g. gasoline/petrol engine) Diesel cycle (e.g. Diesel engine) Atkinson cycle (Atkinson engine) Brayton cycle or Joule cycle originally...
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    addition of an afterburner. The basic operation of the gas turbine is a Brayton cycle with air as the working fluid: atmospheric air flows through the compressor...
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    Otto patented the first atmospheric gas engine. In 1872, American George Brayton invented the first commercial liquid-fueled internal combustion engine...
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    Thermodynamic process (category Thermodynamic cycles)
    three main kinds of thermodynamic processes: (1) changes in a system, (2) cycles in a system, and (3) flow processes. (1) A Thermodynamic process is a process...
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  • Weekend (1967 film) (category Films set in Île-de-France)
    Alice in Wonderland, the James Bond series, and the works of Marquis de Sade. Tim Brayton described it as a "film that reads itself, tells the viewer what...
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    Rankine cycle and the reverse Brayton cycle. The reverse Rankine cycle has been widely used in conventional heat pumps. The concept of using the Brayton cycle...
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    from a gas turbine, it can approach 60%. Brayton cycle: gas turbines and jet engines The Brayton cycle is the cycle used in gas turbines and jet engines....
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    engineering, the organic Rankine cycle (ORC) is a type of thermodynamic cycle. It is a variation of the Rankine cycle named for its use of an organic,...
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    along a stack in a standing wave device follows the Brayton cycle. A counter-clockwise Brayton cycle for a refrigerator consists of four processes that...
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    then much easier to compress to start the entire cycle again. Such dissociative gas Brayton cycles have the potential to considerably increase efficiencies...
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    The Lenoir cycle is an idealized thermodynamic cycle often used to model a pulse jet engine. It is based on the operation of an engine patented by Jean...
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    where it cools the incoming compressed gas. Stirling cycle Gifford–McMahon cycle Vuilleumier cycle Pulse tube refrigerator In 1857, Siemens introduced...
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