heat engine
81Solar engine — A solar engine can be:* a Crookes radiometer : A light mill composed of an airtight glass bulb containing a partial vacuum. Inside are a set of vanes which are mounted on a spindle. The vanes rotate when exposed to light. * a Solar Engine circuit …
82internal combustion engine — noun a) A piston or a rotary heat engine directly powered by the products of intermittent combustion of a fuel. b) A heat engine in which intermittent or the continuous burning of a fuel takes place inside a combustion chamber; the …
83Swashplate engine — Almen A 4 barrel engine A swashplate engine, also called a barrel engine, is one type of axial engine. Swashplate engines are a type of reciprocating engine that replaces the common crankshaft with a circular swashplate which rotates. The key… …
84Watt steam engine — The Watt steam engine was the first type of steam engine to make use of steam at a pressure just above atmospheric to drive the piston helped by a partial vacuum. Improving on the design of the 1712 Newcomen engine, the Watt steam engine,… …
85Timeline of motor and engine technology — Timeline of motor and engine technology* (c. 30 70 AD) Hero of Alexandria builds the first documented steam powered device, the aeolipile . * 1698 Thomas Savery builds a steam powered water pump for pumping water out of mines * 1712 Thomas… …
86external combustion engine — noun Date: 1915 a heat engine (as a steam engine) that derives its heat from fuel consumed outside the cylinder …
87internal combustion engine — noun Date: 1884 a heat engine in which the combustion that generates the heat takes place inside the engine proper instead of in a furnace …
88Stirling Engine — A heat engine of the reciprocating (piston) where the working gas and a heat source are independent. The working gas is compressed in one region of the engine and transferred to another region where it is expanded. The expanded gas is then… …
89carnot engine — noun Usage: usually capitalized C : an ideal reversible heat engine especially as postulated in the statement of Carnot s principle of engine efficiency * * * Thermodynam. an engine using a Carnot cycle of operations. * * * Carnot engine, a… …
90refrigerating engine — noun or refrigerating machine : an apparatus working in a reversed heat engine cycle for utilizing mechanical energy (as by compressing and expanding ammonia gas) to extract heat from a substance (as circulating brine) compare brayton cycle …
