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The internal combustion engine is a heat engine in which the burning of a fuel occurs in a confined space called a combustion chamber. This exothermic reaction of a fuel with an oxidizer creates gases of high temperature and pressure, 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 directly to cause movement, for example by acting on pistons, rotors, or even by pressing on and moving the entire engine itself.
This contrasts with external combustion engines such as steam engines which use the combustion process to heat a separate working fluid, typically water or steam, which then in turn does work, for example by pressing on a steam actuated piston.
The term Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) is almost always used to refer specifically to reciprocating engines, Wankel engines and similar designs in which combustion is intermittent. However, continuous combustion engines, such as Jet engines, most rockets and many gas turbines are also very definitely internal combustion engines.
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@commonladybug First of all: Wow! Good you are ok. Second: Bikes don't have internal combustion engines so they can't go boom.
BikeMiami (Bike Miami ) Mon, 07 Dec 2009 23:03:31 -0000
@commonladybug First of all: Wow! Good you are ok. Second: Bikes don't have internal combustion engines so they can't go boom.
We are exhibiting tomorrow & Thurs at the IMechE Internal Combustion Engines: Performance, Fuel Economy and Emissionsâ conference
ChandosTweets (Chandos Publishing) Mon, 07 Dec 2009 14:24:27 -0000
We are exhibiting tomorrow & Thurs at the IMechE Internal Combustion Engines: Performance, Fuel Economy and Emissions’ conference
We are exhibiting tomorrow & Thurs at the IMechE Internal Combustion Engines: Performance, Fuel Economy and Emissionsâ conference
WoodheadTweets (Woodhead Publishing) Mon, 07 Dec 2009 14:24:26 -0000
We are exhibiting tomorrow & Thurs at the IMechE Internal Combustion Engines: Performance, Fuel Economy and Emissions’ conference
I know all about internal combustion engines - I can see my book tour bus from my book tour plane! #palinscience
Cynicor (Joshua Trupin) Sun, 06 Dec 2009 01:55:31 -0000
I know all about internal combustion engines - I can see my book tour bus from my book tour plane! #palinscience
my first job was as a petroleum transfer engineer; responsible for systematic introduction of fossil fuels into internal combustion engines
rascality (A. Rascal) Sun, 06 Dec 2009 01:29:17 -0000
my first job was as a petroleum transfer engineer; responsible for systematic introduction of fossil fuels into internal combustion engines
Electric cars were on par with internal combustion engines early on, but some advances in ICE engines and Ford's backing destroyed them.
Turbofanatic (Not Telling) Sun, 06 Dec 2009 00:41:54 -0000
Electric cars were on par with internal combustion engines early on, but some advances in ICE engines and Ford's backing destroyed them.
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