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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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)...

of water vapor from the gas phase onto the solid lowering partial pressures. In this regime of combustion, thermal heat released from the combustion byproducts...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

production per unit of energy produced depends upon the moisture in the coal, which increases the CO2 per unit of energy – heat of combustion – and on the volatile...

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

loss, combustion products, heat release rate, and other parameters associated with the sample's burning properties. The measurement of the heat release...