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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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