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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Spontaneous human combustion (SHC) is the pseudoscientific concept of the spontaneous combustion of a living (or recently deceased) human body without...
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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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internal combustion engine vehicle (HICEV) is a type of hydrogen vehicle using an internal combustion engine. Hydrogen internal combustion engine vehicles...
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A combustion engine is an engine which generates mechanical power by combustion of a fuel. Combustion engines are of two general types: Internal combustion...
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Spontaneous combustion or spontaneous ignition is a type of combustion which occurs by self-heating (increase in temperature due to exothermic internal...
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Engine (section Combustion efficiency)
gaseous combustion products in the combustion chamber, causing them to expand and drive a piston, which turns a crankshaft. Unlike internal combustion engines...
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Engine knocking (redirect from Detonation internal combustion engine)
spark-ignition internal combustion engines, knocking (also knock, detonation, spark knock, pinging or pinking) occurs when combustion of some of the air/fuel...
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external combustion engine (EC engine) is a reciprocating heat engine where a working fluid, contained internally, is heated by combustion in an external...
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Combustion and Flame is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Elsevier on behalf of the Combustion Institute. It covers fundamental research...
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Internal Combustion may refer to: Internal combustion engine Internal Combustion (album), a 2010 album by Society Burning Internal Combustion, a 1994 album...
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Scramjet (redirect from Supersonic-combustion ramjet)
A scramjet (supersonic combustion ramjet) is a variant of a ramjet airbreathing jet engine in which combustion takes place in supersonic airflow. As in...
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Diesel engine (redirect from Diesel internal combustion engines)
The diesel engine, named after Rudolf Diesel, is an internal combustion engine in which ignition of the fuel is caused by the elevated temperature of the...
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The staged combustion cycle (sometimes known as topping cycle, preburner cycle, or closed cycle) is a power cycle of a bipropellant rocket engine. In the...
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A combustion chamber is part of an internal combustion engine in which the fuel/air mix is burned. For steam engines, the term has also been used for an...
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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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Pistonless rotary engine (redirect from Rotary combustion engine)
A pistonless rotary engine is an internal combustion engine that does not use pistons in the way a reciprocating engine does. Designs vary widely but typically...
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Combustion Limited was a major engineering business based in Derby offering products for the nuclear engineering industry. International Combustion Australia...
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Four-stroke engine (redirect from 4 Stroke Internal Combustion Engine)
A four-stroke (also four-cycle) engine is an internal combustion (IC) engine in which the piston completes four separate strokes while turning the crankshaft...
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Staged combustion is a method used to reduce the emission of nitrogen oxides (NOx) during combustion. There are two methods for staged combustion: air staged...
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internal combustion engine or external combustion engine Spontaneous human combustion Combustion (album), 2005 album by Decoded Feedback Combustion (film)...
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Flue gas (redirect from Flue-gas emissions from fossil-fuel combustion)
the exhaust gas of combustion at power plants. Technology is available to remove pollutants from flue gas at power plants. Combustion of fossil fuels is...
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Combustion analysis is a method used in both organic chemistry and analytical chemistry to determine the elemental composition (more precisely empirical...
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Combustion (Spanish: Combustión) is a 2013 Spanish action film directed and co-written by Daniel Calparsoro which stars Álex González, Adriana Ugarte...
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Coal combustion products (CCPs), also called coal combustion wastes (CCWs) or coal combustion residuals (CCRs), are categorized in four groups, each based...
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recording, and planning his first tour after the COVID-19 pandemic External Combustion is the second studio album by American rock band Mike Campbell & The Dirty...
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describes the common features of all types. The main types are: the internal combustion engine, used extensively in motor vehicles; the steam engine, the mainstay...
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Gas turbine (redirect from Combustion turbine)
or also known by its old name internal combustion turbine, is a type of continuous flow internal combustion engine. The main parts common to all gas...
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Internal combustion engines date back to between the 10th and 13th centuries, when the first rocket engines were invented in China. Following the first...
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