A gas engine is an internal combustion engine that runs on a fuel gas (a gaseous fuel), such as coal gas, producer gas, biogas, landfill gas, natural gas...
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A gas turbine or gas turbine engine is a type of continuous flow internal combustion engine. The main parts common to all gas turbine engines form the...
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typically applied to pistons (piston engine), turbine blades (gas turbine), a rotor (Wankel engine), or a nozzle (jet engine). This force moves the component...
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as a petrol engine (gasoline engine) or a gas engine (using a gaseous fuel like natural gas or liquefied petroleum gas). Diesel engines work by compressing...
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Atkinson cycle (redirect from Modified atkinson cycle engine)
piston engine. Atkinson's engines were produced by the British Gas Engine Company and also licensed to other overseas manufacturers. Many modern engines now...
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on illuminating gas at 4% efficiency. The 18 litre Lenoir Engine produced only 2 horsepower. The Lenoir engine ran on illuminating gas made from coal,...
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A jet engine is a type of reaction engine, discharging a fast-moving jet of heated gas (usually air) that generates thrust by jet propulsion. While this...
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A Stirling engine is a heat engine that is operated by the cyclic expansion and contraction of air or other gas (the working fluid) by exposing it to different...
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Staged combustion cycle (redirect from Gas-gas engine)
increasing the volume of flow driving the turbopumps that feed the engine with propellant. The gas is then injected into the main combustion chamber and combusted...
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internal combustion engines. In 1791, the English inventor John Barber patented a gas turbine. In 1794, Thomas Mead patented a gas engine. Also in 1794, Robert...
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The GM Small Gasoline Engine (SGE) is a family of small-displacement, inline three- and four-cylinder gasoline engines ranging from 1.0 L to 1.5 L, developed...
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produced a range of petrol, diesel, and natural gas engines. This is a list of all internal combustion engine models manufactured. M160, 0.6 – 0.7 L (1998–2007)...
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liquefied petroleum gas and ethanol blends (such as E10 and E85). Most petrol engines use spark ignition, unlike diesel engines which typically use compression...
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Samuel Brown (engineer) (redirect from Brown's Gas Vacuum Engine)
'father of the gas engine'. While living at Eagle Lodge in the Brompton area of west London, from 1825 to 1835, he developed 'the first gas engine that unquestionably...
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ultimately motion (a chemical engine, but not a heat engine). Chemical heat engines which employ air (ambient atmospheric gas) as a part of the fuel reaction...
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illuminating gas at 4% efficiency. The 18 liter Lenoir engine was able to produce only 2 horsepower. In testing a replica of the Lenoir engine in 1861 Otto...
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complexity, cost, heat loss, and friction loss of the engine. Creating a uniflow-scavenged movement of gas through the combustion chamber, which avoided the...
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gas turbine engine compressors provide the compression part of the gas turbine engine thermodynamic cycle. There are three basic categories of gas turbine...
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Liquefied natural gas (LNG) is natural gas (predominantly methane, CH4, with some mixture of ethane, C2H6) that has been cooled down to liquid form for...
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produced a two-stroke gas engine, for which he received a patent in 1880 in Germany. The first truly practical two-stroke engine is attributed to Yorkshireman...
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Forward Gas Engine Company was an engineering company making stationary internal combustion gas engines in Nechells, Birmingham, England. The most famous...
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liquefied petroleum gas Dramatic reduction in air pollution Costs comparable to those of a four-stroke engine In a Velozeta engine, fresh air is injected...
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other gases, which – after cooling and filtering – can then be used to power an internal combustion engine or for other purposes. Historically wood gas generators...
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Ratio (BA E-Gas): 10.7:1 Compression Ratio (BF / FG E-Gas): 10.3:1 This engine was launched in 2011 as a replacement for the E-Gas engine. It features...
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sources, such as steam turbines, gas turbines, and large electric motors, are categorized separately. Stationary engines were once widespread in the era...
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A natural gas vehicle (NGV) utilizes compressed natural gas (CNG) or liquefied natural gas (LNG) as an alternative fuel source. Distinguished from autogas...
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accommodate the higher specific volume of the exhaust gas. This maintains the same airflow through the engine to ensure no change in its operating characteristics...
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mixture (internal combustion engine) or by contact with a hot heat exchanger in the cylinder (Stirling engine). The hot gases expand, pushing the piston...
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and some hydrogen engines. EGR works by recirculating a portion of an engine's exhaust gas back to the engine cylinders. The exhaust gas displaces atmospheric...
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layout, valves and camshafts. Wankel engines are often categorized by the number of rotors present. Gas turbine engines are often categorized into turbojets...
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