is the fumes of liquid fuels that are flammable instead of the fluid. Most liquid fuels in widespread use are derived from fossil fuels; however, there...
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liquid fuel such as liquid hydrogen or RP-1, and a liquid oxidizer such as liquid oxygen. The engine may be a cryogenic rocket engine, where the fuel and...
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fractions usable as liquid fuels. Many liquid fuels play a primary role in transportation and the economy. Some common properties of liquid fuels are that they...
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ammonia-treated beef. Ammonia has been used as fuel, and is a proposed alternative to fossil fuels and hydrogen. Being liquid at ambient temperature under its own...
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fuel and oxidizer make contact, and non-hypergolic propellants which require an ignition source. About 170 different propellants made of liquid fuel have...
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used in light-water reactors and liquid metal fast breeder reactors, such as Experimental Breeder Reactor II. TRIGA fuel is used in TRIGA (Training, Research...
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pressure. However, the liquid density is very low compared to other common fuels. Once liquefied, it can be maintained as a liquid for some time in thermally...
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Diesel fuel, also called diesel oil, heavy oil (historically) or simply diesel, is a liquid fuel specifically designed for use in a diesel engine, a type...
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Synthetic fuel or synfuel is a liquid fuel, or sometimes gaseous fuel, obtained from syngas, a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen, in which the syngas...
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Rocket propellant (redirect from Rocket Fuel)
be the source of energy. In the case of bipropellant liquid rockets, a mixture of reducing fuel and oxidizing oxidizer is introduced into a combustion...
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Cryogenic fuels are fuels that require storage at extremely low temperatures in order to maintain them in a liquid state. These fuels are used in machinery...
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oils (such as home heating oil), diesel fuel, and others. The term fuel oil generally includes any liquid fuel that is burned in a furnace or boiler to...
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the United States) and oxy-fuel cutting are processes that use fuel gases (or liquid fuels such as gasoline or petrol, diesel, biodiesel, kerosene, etc)...
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in the first liquid-fueled rocket invented in 1926 by Robert H. Goddard, an application which has continued to the present. Liquid oxygen has a clear cyan...
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The liquid fluoride thorium reactor (LFTR; often pronounced lifter) is a type of molten salt reactor. LFTRs use the thorium fuel cycle with a fluoride-based...
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broad categories based on the type of fuel used and stove design: unpressurized stoves that use solid or liquid fuel placed in the burner before ignition;...
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Friedrich Wilhelm Sander (section Liquid-fuel rocket development, test launches and a planned flight across the English channel)
and Space Museum in Washington, DC, the Opel group was also working on liquid-fuel rockets (SPACEFLIGHT, Vol. 21,2, Feb. 1979): In a cabled exclusive to...
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Jet fuel or aviation turbine fuel (ATF, also abbreviated avtur) is a type of aviation fuel designed for use in aircraft powered by gas-turbine engines...
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A liquid rocket booster (LRB) uses liquid fuel and oxidizer to give a liquid-propellant or hybrid rocket an extra boost at take-off, and/or increase the...
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Robert H. Goddard (section First liquid-fueled flight)
inventor who is credited with creating and building the world's first liquid-fueled rocket, which was successfully launched on March 16, 1926. By 1915 his...
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Coal liquefaction (redirect from Coal-to-liquid)
Coal liquefaction is a process of converting coal into liquid hydrocarbons: liquid fuels and petrochemicals. This process is often known as "Coal to X"...
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RP-1 (category Liquid fuels)
of kerosene outwardly similar to jet fuel, used as rocket fuel. RP-1 provides a lower specific impulse than liquid hydrogen (H2), but is cheaper, is stable...
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missiles used liquid-fueled rocket motors. Many liquid-fueled ICBMs could not be kept fueled at all times as the cryogenic fuel liquid oxygen boiled off...
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transmitted and distributed through pipes. Fuel gas is contrasted with liquid fuels and solid fuels, although some fuel gases are liquefied for storage or transport...
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Ramjet (redirect from Solid-fueled ramjet)
1940, the Kostikov-302 experimental plane was designed, powered by a liquid fuel rocket for take-off and ramjet engines for flight. That project was cancelled...
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Alcohol fuel Biofuel Butanol fuel Ethanol fuel Gasoline gallon equivalent Glow fuel Direct methanol fuel cell List of energy topics Liquid fuels Methanol...
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mixture of fuel and oxidising components called grain, and the propellant storage casing effectively becomes the combustion chamber. Liquid-fuelled rockets...
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Solid fuels can be contrasted with liquid fuels and gaseous fuels. Common examples of solid fuels include wood, charcoal, peat, coal, hexamine fuel tablets...
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Valentin Glushko and Sergei Korolev, contributed to the development of Liquid-fuel rockets, which were first used for fighter aircraft. Developments continued...
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generically sold as white gas. Historically called white gas, it is a liquid petroleum fuel (100% light hydrotreated distillate). White gas was originally simply...
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