• Thumbnail for Uniflow steam engine
    The uniflow type of steam engine uses steam that flows in one direction only in each half of the cylinder. Thermal efficiency is increased by having a...
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    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...
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  • combustion engines, scavenging is also improved by this consistent flow direction. Uniflow steam engine, a steam engine with a long uniflow cylinder that...
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    cross-flow scavenging. Two-stroke diesel uniflow engine animation Uniflow scavenging flow schematic In a uniflow engine, the mixture, or "charge air" in the...
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  • Uniflow may refer to: UniFlow (Fire Show and Circus Performance Show Group) Uniflow diesel engine Uniflow steam engine UniFLOW Output Manager (Printing...
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  • Thumbnail for Corliss steam engine
    Engines fitted with Corliss valve gear offered the best thermal efficiency of any type of stationary steam engine until the refinement of the uniflow...
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    the uniflow engine. It was used in ships, steam locomotives and steam wagons but was displaced by steam turbines and later marine diesel engines. "An...
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  • Thumbnail for Stationary steam engine
    McNaught'ed compound beam engines (1845) Corliss engine(1859) Porter-Allen engine (1862) Uniflow engine Todd's (1885) Steam turbine (1889) Boilers Centrifugal...
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  • reciprocating steam engine design (per stage) was the uniflow engine, but by the time it appeared steam was being displaced by diesel engines, which were...
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  • Thumbnail for Advanced steam technology
    technology patents Steam car Steam locomotives of the 21st century Steam motor Uniflow steam engine Walton, J.N. (1965–74). Doble Steam Cars, Buses, Lorries...
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    double-acting engines with adequate clearance to provide free running. Willans engine Uniflow engine Steam motor, the application of the high-speed engine principles...
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    compound engine. The several sets of blades in a single turbine are perhaps better thought of as similar in principle to the uniflow steam engine than to...
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    Uniflow scavenging. SAE news published in the 2010s that 'Loop Scavenging' is better under any circumstance than Uniflow Scavenging. Some SI engines are...
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    Camshaft (category Engine components)
    valves, or piston valves. For examples see the Uniflow steam engine, and the Gardner-Serpollet steam cars, which also included axially sliding the camshaft...
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    The Steam Car Club Of Great Britain – The Magnificent Doble and photograph of E14[usurped] Doble Uniflow Engine[usurped] Guide to the Doble Steam Motors...
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  • Thumbnail for Expansion valve (steam engine)
    expansion valve is a device in steam engine valve gear that improves engine efficiency. It operates by closing off the supply of steam early, before the piston...
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  • Thumbnail for Diesel engine
    low-speed two-stroke crosshead engine with common rail injection. 1981/82: Uniflow scavenging for two-stroke marine diesel engines becomes standard. 1982: August...
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    Hydrolock (redirect from Engine lock)
    cylinders. A hydraulic lock can occur in steam engines due to steam condensing back into water. In most steam engine designs there is a short time at the...
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  • Thumbnail for Bolton Steam Museum
    Bolton Steam Museum is a museum in Bolton, Greater Manchester, England, which houses a variety of preserved steam engines. Based in the cotton store of...
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  • Tugboat"). She had a single screw powered by a three-cylinder Skinner Uniflow steam engine of 1,200 hp (890 kW) served by twin Babcock & Wilcox water tube boilers...
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  • Thumbnail for List of Russian steam locomotive classes
    This List of Russian steam locomotive classes includes those built both before and during the Soviet era. They are to the gauge of 5 ft (1,524 mm) unless...
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    A steam-powered aircraft is an aircraft propelled by a steam engine. Steam power was used during the 19th century, but fell into disuse with the arrival...
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  • Bash valve (category Steam engine technology)
    are not widely used in steam engines, although they are known. Most examples were applied to some form of uniflow steam engine; unlike the more common...
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    and are also used in many external combustion engines such as Stirling engines and some steam engines. They are also found in pumps and hydraulic rams...
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  • towers that wind streams vertically upward Counterflow steam engine, such as Uniflow steam engine Counterflow heat exchanger in Cryocooler or Recuperator...
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  • Thumbnail for Electro-Motive Diesel
    cylinder version of the Winton 201A Roots blown, uniflow scavenged, unit injected, 2-stroke diesel engine. As the Budd and Pullman Standard companies entered...
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  • Thumbnail for Steam motor
    A steam motor is a form of steam engine used for light locomotives and light self-propelled motor cars used on railways. The origins of steam motor cars...
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  • Thumbnail for History of steam road vehicles
    The history of steam road vehicles comprises the development of vehicles powered by a steam engine for use on land and independent of rails, whether for...
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  • Thumbnail for William Murdoch
    by the firm of Boulton & Watt and worked for them in Cornwall, as a steam engine erector for ten years, spending most of the rest of his life in Birmingham...
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    Connecting rod (category Engine technology)
    most common usage of connecting rods is in internal combustion engines or on steam engines. A connecting rod crank has been found in the Celtic Oppida at...
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