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• Internal combustion engine
  #REDIRECT [[Internal Combustion Engine]]
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• Internal Combustion Engine
  ...essure, which are permitted to expand. The defining feature of an internal combustion engine is that useful work is performed by the expanding hot gases acting d ...th [[external combustion engine]]s such as [[steam engine]]s which use the combustion process to heat a separate working fluid, typically water or steam, which t
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• Internal-combustion engine
  #REDIRECT [[Internal Combustion Engine]]
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• External combustion engine
  ...>[http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/external%20combustion external combustion - Definition from the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary]</ref> The fluid is ...ns not involving combustion; but are not then strictly classed as external combustion engines, but as external thermal engines.
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• History of the internal combustion engine
  Although various forms of [[internal combustion engine]]s were developed before the 19th century, application was hindered Various scientists and engineers contributed to the development of [[internal combustion engine]]s:
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• François Isaac de Rivaz
  ...//www.h2cars.de/1_cardata/c214.htm 1807 Francois Isaac de Rivaz - internal combustion engine]</ref> Although the engine was first built by Isaac de Rivaz, it was ...began until the mid-nineteenth century. Gasoline was not used for internal combustion engines until 1870.
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• Internal combustion engine
  #REDIRECT [[Internal Combustion Engine]]
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• ICE
  #REDIRECT [[Internal Combustion Engine]]
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• Internal-combustion engine
  #REDIRECT [[Internal Combustion Engine]]
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• Exhaust
  *[[Exhaust gas]], a gas which occurs as a result of combustion of fuel *[[Exhaust system]], a mechanism for venting exhaust gases from an internal combustion engine
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• External combustion engine
  ...>[http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/external%20combustion external combustion - Definition from the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary]</ref> The fluid is ...ns not involving combustion; but are not then strictly classed as external combustion engines, but as external thermal engines.
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• Liquidpiston
  ...onditions, which is how [[Otto cycle]] combustion is modeled. Finally, the combustion products are expanded to atmospheric pressure, utilizing [[Atkinson cycle]]
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• Choke valve
  ...'choke valve''' is sometimes installed in the [[carburetor]] of [[internal combustion engine]]s. Its purpose is to restrict the flow of [[air]] into so as to en ...in the correct [[stoichometry|stoichiometric]] ratio for clean, efficient combustion.
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• Stall torque
  ==Combustion engines==
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• Calculated Ignition Index
  The running of all internal combustion engines is dependent on the ignition quality of the fuel. For spark-ignitio [[Category:Combustion]]
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• Nikolaus Otto
  ...iently burn fuel directly in a [[piston]] chamber. Although other internal combustion engines had been invented (e.g. by [[Étienne Lenoir]]) these were not base ...lice Matteucci]] patented a first working efficient version of an internal combustion engine in 1854 in London (pt. Num. 1072). It is claimed that the Otto engin
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• Oil cooler
  A oil cool is a performance part desiged to cool oil in a internal combustion engine oil cooler help cars from over heating it also helps reduce weigth i
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• Straight-10 engine
  ...raight-10 engine''' or '''inline-10 engine''' is a ten-cylinder [[internal combustion engine]] with all ten [[cylinder (engine)|cylinders]] mounted in a straight
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• Calculated Carbon Aromaticity Index
  The running of all [[internal combustion engines]] is dependent on the ignition quality of the fuel. For [[spark-ign [[Category:Combustion]]
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• George Brayton
  ...with his family in Boston, and who is noted for introducing the continuous combustion process that is the basis for the gas turbine, and which is now referred to ...accessdate = 2007-07-29 }}</ref> which had one cylinder for compression, a combustion chamber, and a separate cylinder in which the products expanded for the pow
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• Throttle
  == Internal combustion engines == In a [[petrol]] (gasoline) [[internal combustion engine]], the throttle is a valve that directly regulates the amount of air
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• Flat-8 engine
  A '''flat-8''' or '''horizontally-opposed-8''' is an [[internal combustion engine]] in [[Flat engine|flat]] configuration, having 8 [[cylinder (engine
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• Multi-valve
  ...e combustion chamber, which can be ideal for even flame propagation during combustion. In addition, particularly as the valve begins to open, for equivalent val
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• Petrol engine
  {{main|Internal combustion engine}} ...ne''' (known as a '''gasoline engine''' in North America) is an [[internal combustion engine]] with [[spark-ignition engine|spark-ignition]], designed to run on
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• Green tuning
  ...electric vehicle conversion is the modification of a conventional internal combustion engine (ICE) driven vehicle to battery electric propulsion, creating a batt ...can be used for short trips of moderate speed without needing the internal combustion engine (ICE) component of the vehicle, thereby saving fuel costs. In this m
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• Samuel Brown
  ...tor credited with developing one of the earliest examples of an [[internal combustion engine]], during the early 19th century. ...ion engine]]. It was based on an old Newcomen steam engine, had a separate combustion and working [[cylinder (engine)|cylinders]], and was cooled by water contai
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• Dead centre
  ==Internal combustion engine== ...tre''' ('''ATDC'''), such as the [[Nissan MA engine]] with hemispherical [[combustion chamber]]s, or [[Hydrogen vehicle|hydrogen engines]].
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• Exhaust gas
  '''Exhaust gas''' or '''flue gas''' is emitted as a result of the [[combustion]] of fuels such as [[natural gas]], [[gasoline]]/petrol, [[diesel fuel]], f The largest part of most combustion gases is nitrogen (N₂), water vapor (H₂O) (except wit
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• Fuel
  In chemistry and the field of fire safety, anything that is capable of combustion is called ''fuel''. ...from fossil fuels is by burning them in oxygen. In this process known as ''combustion'', fuel reacts with oxygen and releases energy as heat. Humans have also ma
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• Straight-12 engine
  ...ght-12 engine''' or '''inline-12 engine''' is a twelve-cylinder [[internal combustion engine]] with all twelve [[cylinder (engine)|cylinders]] mounted in a strai
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• Pusher trailer
  ...rs''' are gasoline or diesel fueled trailers with a traditional [[internal combustion engine]] ([[petroleum engine]]s) and transmission which can be [[hitch]]ed
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• NOx Adsorbers
  ...es of nitrogen (NO and NO₂) emissions from a lean burn internal combustion engine. ...er]] technology that has been successfully used on stoichiometric internal combustion engines (typically fueled by [[petrol]] but also sometimes fueled by [[Liqu
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• Flat-twin engine
  A '''flat-twin''' is a two cylinder [[internal combustion engine]] with the cylinders arranged on opposite sides of the crankshaft. I
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• Fuel Stratified Injection
  ...[[ignition]] in the area around the [[spark plug]]. The remainder of the [[combustion chamber]] is filled with a leaner mixture, one with a considerable degree o ...e and is picked up by the movement of the air that has been drawn into the combustion chamber. This movement is imparted to the air by a movable flap in the inta
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• Flat-16 engine
  A '''flat-16''' is an internal combustion engine in [[flat engine|flat]] configuration, having 16 cylinders.
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• Naturally-aspirated engine
  ...ngine''' (or "N/A" - aspiration meaning breathing) refers to an [[internal combustion engine]] (normally [[petrol]] or [[diesel]] powered) that is neither [[turb ...er]], for high-performance N/A engines that benefit from higher [[internal combustion engines|compression]].
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• Reciprocating engine
  ...cribes the common features of all types. The main types are the [[internal combustion engine]] used extensively in motor vehicles, the [[steam engine]] which was ...r either by [[ignition system|ignition]] of a fuel air mixture ([[internal combustion engine]]) or by contact with a hot heat exchanger in the cylinder (stirling
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• Cetane number
  '''Cetane number''' or CN is a measurement of the [[combustion]] quality of [[diesel fuel]] during compression ignition. It is a significa ...gnition delay; the time period between the start of injection and start of combustion (ignition) of the fuel. In a particular diesel engine, higher cetane fuels
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• Cone clutch
  ...speed applications although they were once common in automobiles and other combustion engine transmissions. They are usually now confined to very specialist tran
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• Crankshaft deep rolling
  ...lling''' is a method of cold work deformation and burnishing of [[internal combustion engine]] [[crankshaft]] journal fillets to increase durability and design s
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• Blue Flame
  ...nd is brought to combustion temperature. The gas is then injected into the combustion chamber with the oxygen provided by the hydrogen peroxide. A stable flame
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• Front-engine design
  ...-mounted engine''' describes the placement of an [[automobile]] [[internal-combustion engine|engine]] in front of the vehicle passenger compartment.
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• Bivalent (engine)
  ...n Energy Strategy</ref> The engine itself is similar to a regular gasoline combustion engine with an exception to the [[fuel injection]] system. As seen in BMW's ...t complicated refinement processes. Since little carbon is produced in the combustion of natural gas, the vehicles engine and oil are kept much cleaner than if j
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• Atkinson cycle
  The '''Atkinson-cycle engine''' is a type of [[internal combustion engine]] invented by James Atkinson in 1882. The Atkinson cycle is designed ...ure; when this occurs, all the available energy has been obtained from the combustion process. For any given portion of air, the greater expansion ratio allows m
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• Dipstick
  This is a common way to measure the amount of oil in the sump of an internal combustion engine. The dipstick is a metal strip or thin flexible coil inserted into
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• De Dion-Bouton
  ==Internal Combustion Engine cars== ...experiments, de Dion became convinced that the future lay in the internal combustion engine. Trépardoux was not to be convinced and left the company in 1894 wh
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• V engine
  ...ne''' is a common [[engine configuration|configuration]] for an [[internal combustion engine]]. The [[cylinder (engine)|cylinders]] and [[piston]]s are aligned, In 1896, [[Karl Benz]] patented his design for the first internal combustion engine with horizontally opposed pistons. Usually, each pair of correspond
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• Diesel engine
  The '''diesel engine''' is a type of [[internal combustion engine]]; more specifically, it is a compression ignition engine, in which ...ir. The resulting mixture ignites and burns very rapidly. This contained combustion causes the gas in the chamber to heat up rapidly, which increases its press
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• Air-cooled engine
  Most modern [[internal combustion engine]]s are cooled by a closed circuit carrying liquid [[antifreeze (cool In all combustion engines, a great percentage of the heat generated (around 44%) escapes thro
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• Étienne Lenoir
  ...bile (car)|Hippomobile]] with a hydrogen gas fuelled one cylinder internal combustion engine made a test drive from Paris to Joinville-le-Pont: top speed about 9 ...neers, especially [[Nikolaus Otto]], began making improvements in internal combustion technology which soon rendered the Lenoir design obsolete. Less than 500 Le
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• Cylinder
  ==Internal combustion engines== :''Main article: [[Internal combustion engine]]''
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• Poppet valve
  ==Internal combustion engine== ...e so called '''L-head''' engine because of the shape of the cylinder and [[combustion chamber]], also called '[[flathead engine]]' as the top of the [[cylinder h
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• MF layout
  ...e]]''' layout is one in which the front wheels are driven by an [[internal-combustion engine|engine]] placed just behind them, in front of the passenger compartm
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• Venturi Fetish
  The car's acceleration is comparable to a normal internal combustion engined sports car, producing approximately 250&nbsp;horsepower (180 kW) at ...lable at all speeds, as opposed to the progressive delivery of an internal combustion engined car, where full power is only available within certain RPM ranges.
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• Locomobile
  ...ually sold. Locomobile started experimenting with [[gasoline]] [[internal combustion engine]]s in 1902, and stopped making steam vehicles the following year. ...mobiles are also referred to as ''locomobiles.'' In this world, [[internal combustion]] was never discovered and automobiles are always powered by steam.
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• Sump
  Another example is the [[oil pan]] of an [[Internal combustion engine|engine]]. The oil is used to lubricate the engine's moving parts and
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• Detroit Electric
  ...anding hand cranking of the engine that was required with early [[internal combustion engine]] autos. A statement of the cars refinement was evidenced to the pub As improved internal combustion engine automobiles became more common and inexpensive, sales of the Electri
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• Glowplug
  ...engine|petrol engines]], do not use [[spark plug|spark plugs]] to induce [[combustion]]. Instead, they rely solely on compression. The piston rises, compressing ...nds after engine start to keep the engine within emissions regulations, as combustion efficiency is greatly reduced when the engine is very cold.
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• Single cylinder engine
  ...asic [[reciprocating engine|piston engine]] configuration of an [[internal combustion engine]]. It is often seen on motorcycles but has many uses in portable to
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• Flat engine
  A '''flat engine''' is an [[internal combustion engine]] with pistons that are all relatively horizontal. A [[straight engi German engineer [[Karl Benz]] patented his design for the first internal combustion engine with horizontally opposed [[piston]]s in 1896.
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• NICE Car Company
  '''NICE''', which stands for "No Intenral Combustion Engine", is an Electric City Car manufacturer founded in 2006 by former [[L
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• Engine configuration
  ...n engineering term for the layout of the major components of an [[internal combustion engine]]. These components include [[cylinder (engine)|cylinder]]s, [[pisto ...ug to be located in the center of the cylinder head, which promotes better combustion characteristics.
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• Stanley Steamer Company
  ...1900s before eventually being overtaken technologically by the [[internal combustion engine]]. ...y Steamer car as to plant the notion in the reader's head that an internal combustion automobile could explode.
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• Pistonless rotary engine
  A '''pistonless rotary engine''' is an [[internal combustion engine]] that does not use [[piston]]s in the way a [[reciprocating engine] The term '''''rotary combustion engine''''' has been suggested as an alternative name for these engines to
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• Intercooler
  ...[[Turbocharger|turbocharged]] and [[Supercharger|supercharged]] [[internal combustion engine]]s to improve their volumetric efficiency by increasing intake air c ...ensity. Increased intake charge temperature can also increase the cylinder combustion temperature, causing [[Engine knocking| detonation]], excessive wear, or he
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• Cetane index
  * Internal Combustion Engine Fundamentals, John B. Heywood, McGraw Hill, 1988 ISBN 0-07-100499-8
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• Compression ratio
  ...it's smallest capacity. It is a fundamental specification for many common combustion engines. ...is at the bottom of its [[stroke (engines)|stroke]], and the volume of the combustion chamber when the piston is at the top of its stroke.
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• Crankcase
  In an [[internal combustion engine]], the '''crankcase''' is the housing for the [[crankshaft]]. The e Early internal combustion engines were of the "open crank" style, that is, there was no enclosed cran
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• Hybrid electric vehicle
  ...le]], also called '''Hybrid-electric vehicle (HEV)''' which use [[internal combustion]] engines and electric batteries to power electric motors. See also [[Hybri ...a hybrid, as power is delivered both via an [[internal combustion|internal combustion engine]] or electric motor and the rider's muscles.
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• BMW S85 engine
  *Cast aluminum heads with four valves per cylinder and CNC machined ports and combustion chambers. Valves are actuated though non-rotating inverted bucked cam follo ...t system, engine misfires as well as knock can be measured simultaneously. Combustion quality raises or lowers cylinder pressure. The ionic current is measured b
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• W engine
  ...pecific type of [[reciprocating engine|reciprocating / piston]] [[internal combustion engine]] [[engine configuration|configuration]]. The [[cylinder bank]]s re ...e (rpm). It utilises four valves per cylinder, 64 [[poppet valve#Internal combustion engine|valves]] total, with four [[overhead camshaft]]s arranged in a 2x [[
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• Connecting rod
  ==Internal combustion engines== In modern [[automobile|automotive]] [[internal combustion engine]]s, the connecting rods are most usually made of steel for productio
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• BMW 745h
  The first car offered for sale with an internal combustion hydrogen engine.
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• Diesel
  ...biodiesel has combustion properties very similar to petrodiesel, including combustion energy and cetane ratings. Paraffin biodiesel also exists. Due to the purit ===Internal Combustion Engines===
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• Automobile emissions control
  ...le air pollution; the products of burning fuel in the vehicle's [[internal combustion engine|engine]], emitted from the vehicle's exhaust system. The major poll ##''Carbon monoxide (CO)'': a product of incomplete combustion, carbon monoxide reduces the blood's ability to carry oxygen and are danger
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• HEMI
  ...he performance of their cars. The first hemispherical shaped (half sphere) combustion chamber engine was developed prior to World War II, but it was used very li ...to the public. This engine had 331 cubic inches and featured hemispherical combustion chambers. This engine produced 180 horsepower at 4000 rpm. The first cars t
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• Wet sump
  ...management design for [[four-stroke cycle|four-stroke]] piston [[internal combustion engines]] which uses a built-in reservoir for oil, as opposed to an externa
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• Longitudinal engine
  In [[automotive engineering]], a '''longitudinal engine''' is an [[internal combustion engine]] in which the [[crankshaft]] is oriented along the long axis of the
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• Centrifugal clutch
  * keep the [[internal combustion engine]] from stalling when the blade is stopped abruptly
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• Cold air intake
  ...for the purpose of increasing the <nowiki>power</nowiki> of the [[internal-combustion engine]]. A secondary goal is to increase the appeal of a car by changing ...te on the principal of increasing the amount of [[oxygen]] available for [[combustion]] with [[fuel]]. Because cooler air has more density for a given volume, co
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• RKM engine
  ...configuration of every model depends upon its use. For instance, internal combustion engines would include injection valves and after-burning chambers. These, h *Internal and external combustion engines, including Diesel, for all types of wheeled or tracked motor vehicl
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• Knight Engine
  The '''Knight Engine''' was an internal combustion engine, designed by Charles Yale Knight (1868-1940), that used [[sleeve val
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• Tax horsepower
  ...ieth century tax power was reasonably close to real power; as the internal combustion engine developed, real power became larger than nominal taxable power by a ...ngthy combustion chamber in any case reduced their potential for improving combustion efficiency.
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• Samuel Morey
  ...762 - April 17, 1843) was an American inventor, who invented an [[internal combustion engine]] and was a pioneer in steamships who accumulated a total of 20 pate ==Experiments with vapors and combustion==
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• Alternative Fuel Vehicles
  ...Almost any gasoline engine can be adapted to use hydrogen fuel. Internal combustion engines provide various benefits compared with fuel cells, such as more pow * Internal combustion hydrogen engines show remarkable potential
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• Volumetric efficiency
  Volumetric efficiency in internal combustion engine design refers to the efficiency with which the engine can move the c
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• Commer
  ...ns and lorries are notable for being fitted with the Rootes TS3 [[internal combustion engine|engine]], a two-stroke diesel three-cylinder horizontally-opposed pi
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• Spark plug
  ...electrical device that fits into the [[cylinder head]] of some [[internal combustion engine]]s and ignites compressed aerosol [[gasoline]] by means of an electr ...old in 1902 made possible the development of the gasoline-powered internal combustion engine.
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• Integrated Motor Assist (IMA)
  ...a starter motor, engine balancer, and assist traction motor. The internal combustion engine (ICE) provides all the power needed for most driving situations. Whe ...ng''' - The valves of all four of the engine’s cylinders can be closed and combustion halted, the electric motor alone can power the vehicle.
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• History of the internal combustion engine
  Although various forms of [[internal combustion engine]]s were developed before the 19th century, application was hindered Various scientists and engineers contributed to the development of [[internal combustion engine]]s:
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• Global Hybrid Cooperation
  ...two sets of gears in an [[automatic transmission]]: One for the [[internal combustion engine]] and another to multiply the power of a pair of [[Electric Vehicles .... [[Honda]]'s [[Integrated Motor Assist]] uses a more traditional internal combustion engine and transmission where the flywheel is replaced with an electric mot
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• Magneto (electrical)
  ...lectrical power to the [[spark plug]]s in some gasoline-powered [[internal combustion engine]]s where batteries are not available, most commonly those in [[two-s
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• Straight-4 engine
  The '''straight-4''' or '''inline-4''' is an [[internal combustion engine]] with four cylinders aligned in one row. This inline configuration ...time as the other pair is moving down, piston speed - as with all internal combustion engines - is higher through the top 180 degrees of the stroke than the bott
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• Siegfried Marcus
  Ca. 1870 he put an [[internal combustion engine]] on a simple handcart. This appliance was designed for liquid combu *[[History of the internal combustion engine]]
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• Deutz Gasmotoren Fabrik
  ...unded by [[Nikolaus Otto]], inventor of the [[four-stroke cycle]] internal combustion engine, in 1848 as '''N. A. Otto & Cie.''' Formerly, Deutz also produced ag
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• Crossley
  ..., United Kingdom, was a pioneering company in the production of [[internal combustion engine]]s. Since 1988 it has been part of the Rolls-Royce Power Engineering ...Otto and Langden]] of Cologne for the new gas fuelled atmospheric internal combustion engine and in 1876 these rights were extended to the famous [[Nicolaus Otto
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• City car
  ==Internal combustion engine city cars==
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• Armand Peugeot
  ...ctory at Audincourt, dedicated to the manufacture of cars with an internal combustion engine.
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• Mitsubishi 6G engine
  ...both strong breathing and low emissions. Spark plugs were centered in the combustion chambers. The intake valves were 1.30 inches (33 mm) in diameter while exha ...its unique fuel injection system — it had a crown-curved rather than flat combustion chamber, upright intake ports rather than angled, and a 10.4:1 rather than
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• Hydrogen vehicle
  ...omotion. These vehicles generally use the hydrogen in one of two methods: combustion or [[fuel-cell]] conversion: * In combustion, the hydrogen is "burned" in engines in fundamentally the same method as tr
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• Biobutanol
  ...ces (no petroleum). [[Butanol]] may be used as a [[fuel]] in an [[internal combustion engine]]. It is more similar to [[gasoline]] than [[ethanol]]. Butanol has ...r octane rating is less prone to knocking (extremely rapid and spontaneous combustion by compression) and the control system of any modern car engine can take ad
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• Internal Combustion Engine
  ...essure, which are permitted to expand. The defining feature of an internal combustion engine is that useful work is performed by the expanding hot gases acting d ...th [[external combustion engine]]s such as [[steam engine]]s which use the combustion process to heat a separate working fluid, typically water or steam, which t
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• Beaumont
  ...velle, including the [[OHV]] [[Straight-6|inline six-cylinder]] [[Internal combustion engine|engine]], and a variety of small- and big-block [[V8]]s. The [[V8 e
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• Dry sump
  ...four-stroke cycle|four-stroke]] and large [[two-stroke]] piston [[internal combustion engine]]s that uses a secondary external reservoir for oil, as compared to
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• Ford Cleveland engine
  The '''Ford 335''' [[internal combustion engine|engine]] family were a group of [[small-block V8|small-block]] [[V8] ...'''4V''' heads had massive valves canted to the sides with a "poly-angle" combustion chamber. A novel feature is the heads are not straight &mdash; they are ho
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