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  • 1Free-piston engine — The free piston engine is a linear, crankless combustion engine, in which the piston motion is not controlled by a crankshaft but determined by the interaction of forces from the combustion cylinder gases, a rebound device and a load device.The… …

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  • 2Gas turbine — Microturbine redirects here. For turbines in electricity, see Small wind turbine. For turbines driven by the flow of gas, see Turbine. A typical axial flow gas turbine turbojet, the J85, sectioned for display. Flow is left to right, multistage… …

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  • 3Gas turbine locomotive — A Gas turbine locomotive is a locomotive powered by a gas turbine. The majority of gas turbine locomotives have had electric transmission but mechanical transmission has also been used, particularly in the early days. The advantage of using gas… …

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  • 4gas-turbine engine — Introduction       any internal combustion engine employing a gas as the working fluid used to turn a turbine. The term also is conventionally used to describe a complete internal combustion engine consisting of at least a compressor, a… …

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  • 5gas|i|fi|er — «GAS uh FY uhr», noun. 1. the portion of a free piston engine that generates the gases used to run a turbine. 2. = free piston engine. (Cf. ↑free piston engine) 3. a device for converting coal into gas …

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  • 6Gas compressor — A gas compressor is a mechanical device that increases the pressure of a gas by reducing its volume. Compressors are similar to pumps: both increase the pressure on a fluid and both can transport the fluid through a pipe. As gases are… …

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  • 7Turbine — A turbine is a rotary engine that extracts energy from a fluid flow. Claude Burdin (1788 1873) coined the term from the Latin turbo , or vortex, during an 1828 engineering competition. Benoit Fourneyron (1802 1867), a student of Claude Burdin,… …

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  • 8Gas engine — This article is about engines that use gaseous fuel. For gasoline engines, see Petrol engine. For other uses, see Internal combustion engine. Model of an S type Hartop Gas Engine. A gas engine means an engine running on a gas, such as coal gas,… …

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  • 9Opposed piston engine — An opposed piston engine is one in which the cylinders are double ended, with a piston at each end and no cylinder head.ConfigurationsSome variations of the Opposed Piston or OP designs use a single crankshaft like the Doxford ship enginesCite… …

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  • 10Opposed-piston engine — This article is about existing engine designs. For the quite different concept proposed by Frank Stelzer, see Stelzer engine. Fairbanks Morse opposed piston diesel engines on the submarine USS Pampanito An opposed piston engine is a reciprocating …

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