Combustion scientist Herman Snyder, who relocated from Wisconsin, had worked at a Caterpillar subsidiary designing gas turbine engines.
GM's Chevrolet Volt, an electric car with a combustion engine range extender, could be another beneficiary.
The S3D application models the underlying turbulent combustion of fuels in an internal combustion engine.
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In Europe, anti-car activism is quite advanced, and many inner cities ban internal-combustion auto traffic entirely.
Instead, two pistons face each other and the space between them serves as the combustion chamber.
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Especially difficult to find are folks who can do diesel-engine combustion analysis and electromechanical-controls engineering.
Fuel cells are twice as efficient as combustion engines, and that is enough for Honda.
Tuesday's first launch attempt was aborted because of low pressure in the combustion chamber.
Or maybe over the next 8, 10, 15 years the combustion engine becomes a relic.
They encounter sudden combustion inside mock cabins, practicing ducking under flames to stay alive.
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Then during acceleration, that energy moves to the front wheels, which support the combustion engine.
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As for automobiles:Though cars were still 23 years off, the internal combustion engine had been invented.
An internal combustion generator converts the gas back into electricity to provide power for the home.
All in all, the Internet may not be quite up there with the internal combustion engine.
Combustion and propagation processes are then simulated in order to predict the spread of the fire.
The trouble is that most of the low-hanging fruit in combustion engineering have been picked already.
Burns says a fuel-cell vehicle has one-tenth the number of parts of a traditional internal combustion engine.
In combustion tests, he has fired on them with rifles and even tossed them into wood fires.
But coal mining and combustion produces health and environmental risks that dwarf those associated with natural-gas production.
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According to Bosch's calculations, a conventional internal-combustion-engined car can travel 1.5-2.5km on a kilowatt-hour (kWh) of energy.
It actually began to occur long before humans invented agriculture, smoke stacks, and gasoline-fueled internal combustion engines.
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It is a hybrid, powered by both a small internal combustion engine and a battery-driven electric motor.
High-efficiency internal combustion engines combined with lightweight materials can dramatically increase fuel efficiency in cars and trucks.
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Instead of a few, large fuel-combustion chambers, it will have 72 small ones dotted around its perimeter.
In SNG's case, the gas can also be compressed and used to fuel cars with internal-combustion engines.
The combustion engine slowly recharges the battery pack when it is not using energy to move the vehicle.
But others said it would take a lot more power than that to replace an internal combustion engine.
Their value was always acceleration, which is as valid in a combustion-engine world as it was before it.
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Every fuel cell, which generates electricity by a chemical reaction (as opposed to combustion), has an electrolyte.
In addition, thousands of firms and entrepreneurs own single- and multi-engine aircraft powered by Intermittent Combustion (non-turbine) engines.
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