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    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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    gas turbine, gas turbine engine, or also known by its old name internal combustion turbine, is a type of continuous flow internal combustion engine....
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • Thumbnail for GM small gasoline engine
    The GM Small Gasoline Engine (SGE) is a family of small-displacement three- and four-cylinder gasoline engines ranging from 1.0 L to 1.5 L, developed by...
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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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    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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  • Thumbnail for Gas turbine engine compressors
    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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    '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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  • 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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  • Thumbnail for Two-stroke engine
    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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • Thumbnail for Étienne Lenoir
    electricity led him to develop the first internal combustion engine which burned a mixture of coal gas and air ignited by a "jumping sparks" ignition system...
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    Supercharger (redirect from Blower engine)
    In an internal combustion engine, a supercharger compresses the intake gas, forcing more air into the engine in order to produce more power for a given...
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  • (March 5, 2024). "Dodge Charger Will Get 550-HP Hurricane Inline-Six Gas Engine In 2025". Motor1.com. Retrieved March 6, 2024. Alainz, Anthony (November...
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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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  • classifications of thermal engines- Internal combustion (gasoline, diesel and gas turbine-Brayton cycle engines) and External combustion engines (steam piston, steam...
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