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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
  865 bytes (123 words) - 08:20, 10 April 2007
• 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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• Template:Piston engine configurations
  | [[Bourke engine|Bourke]]{{·}} [[Controlled Combustion Engine|Controlled combustion]]{{·}} [[Napier Deltic|Deltic]]{{·}}[[orbital engine|Orbital]]{{·}} [[re
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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
  1,011 bytes (148 words) - 19:58, 24 August 2009
• Template:Portal:Green tuning/Selected article
  An electric vehicle conversion is the modification of a conventional internal combustion engine (ICE) driven vehicle to battery electric propulsion, creating a batt
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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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