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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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)...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

criterion: Thermoacoustic combustion instabilities will occur if the volume integral of the correlation of pressure and heat-release fluctuations over...

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

given amount of heat generated. Therefore, a high luminometer number means that, for a given amount of energy released in combustion, more of the 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...

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

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

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

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

methane (and other lower numbered alkanes). Methane's heat of combustion is 55.5 MJ/kg. Combustion of methane is a multiple step reaction summarized as follows:...

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

and water (H2O). The heat of combustion can be measured with a so-called bomb calorimeter, in which the heat released by combustion at high temperature...

normally consider the chemical properties of a substance to guide its applications. Heat of combustion Enthalpy of formation Toxicity Chemical stability in...