value) of a substance, usually a fuel or food (see food energy), is the amount of heat released during the combustion of a specified amount of it. The...

whose combustion then supplies the heat required to produce more of them. Combustion is often hot enough that incandescent light in the form of either...

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

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

Combustion, a 1994 album by Canned Heat "Internal Combustion" (short story), a 1956 story by L. Sprague de Camp Internal Combustion, a 2007 nonfiction book by...

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...

vessel wall. A bomb calorimeter is a type of constant-volume calorimeter used in measuring the heat of combustion of a particular reaction. Bomb calorimeters...

insulators that prevent the escape of heat causing the temperatures of the material to rise above its ignition point. Combustion will begin when a sufficient...

principle is the incorporation of a large thermal mass built of masonry which absorbs heat from exhausting combustion products directed in a sinuous path...

of heat or for use in a heat engine, the relevant quantity is the change in standard enthalpy or the heat of combustion. There are two kinds of heat of...

Heat content may refer to: Enthalpy, measure of energy in a thermodynamic system Heat of combustion, amount of heat released by combustion of a quantity...

enthalpy of reaction, if initial and final temperatures are equal). A related term is the heat of combustion, which is the energy mostly of the weak double...

external combustion and expelled with a heat exchanger. With the open cycle, air from the atmosphere is drawn in, goes through three steps of the cycle...

advantage of heat engines is that most forms of energy can be easily converted to heat by processes like exothermic reactions (such as combustion), nuclear...

the low heat values are commonly used. Neither the gross heat of combustion nor the net heat of combustion gives the theoretical amount of mechanical...

Internal combustion engine cooling uses either air or liquid to remove the waste heat from an internal combustion engine. For small or special purpose...

absence of gas production during burning, high reaction temperature, and production of molten slag. The fuel should have high heat of combustion and produce...

ignored. The gross energy (GE) of a food, as measured by bomb calorimetry is equal to the sum of the heats of combustion of the components – protein (GEp)...

to the combustion chamber of a spark-ignition engine to ignite the compressed fuel/air mixture by an electric spark, while containing combustion pressure...

Spontaneous human combustion (SHC) is the pseudoscientific concept of the spontaneous combustion of a living (or recently deceased) human body without...

substantially smaller than the idealized value of approximately 109°. Because of their high strain, the heat of combustion for these small rings is elevated. Ring...

fast combustion). In the former, slow combustion converts more of the internal energy (i.e. chemical potential) of the burning substance into heat released...

is the temperature that results from a complete combustion process that occurs without any work, heat transfer or changes in kinetic or potential energy...

gas has a lower heat of combustion of 5.7 MJ/kg versus 55.9 MJ/kg for natural gas and 44.1 MJ/kg for gasoline. The heat of combustion of wood is typically...

combustion process causes further efficiency losses. The second law of thermodynamics puts a fundamental limit on the thermal efficiency of all heat engines...

Disadvantages of Stirling engines compared to internal combustion engines include: Stirling engine designs require heat exchangers for heat input and for heat output...

Krisnangkura, Kanit (1991). "Estimation of heat of combustion of triglycerides and fatty acid methyl esters". Journal of the American Oil Chemists' Society...

calculations of such quantities as heat capacity, heat of combustion, heat of formation, enthalpy, entropy, and free energy. Thermochemistry is one part of the...

large release of heat in substances that one normally considers to be inert, such as carbon dioxide and water. However, aluminum combustion is normally...

pin. Lubrication of the crosshead has advantages over the trunk piston as its lubricating oil is not subject to the heat of combustion: the oil is not...