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Home Dictionary Name: gas engineGas engine
A kind of internal combustion engine which see using fixed gas also broadly any internal combustion engine...
Internal combustion
Designating or pertaining to any engine called an Internal combustion engine in which the heat or pressure energy necessary to produce motion is developed in the engine cylinder as by the explosion of a gas and not in a separate chamber as in a steam engine boiler The gas used may be a fixed gas or one derived from alcohol ether gasoline petrol naphtha oil petroleum etc There are three main classes 1 gas engines proper using fixed gases as coal blast furnace or producer gas 2 engines using the vapor of a volatile fluid as the typical gasoline petrol engine 3 oil engines using either an atomized spray or the vapor produced by heat of a comparatively heavy oil as petroleum or kerosene In all of these the gas is mixed with a definite amount of air the charge is composed in the cylinder and is then exploded either by a flame of gas flame ignition now little used by a hot tube tube ignition or the like by an electric spark electric ignition the usual method is gasoline engines or by the hea...
Otto cycle
A four stroke cycle for internal combustion engines consisting of the following operations First stroke suction into cylinder of explosive charge as of gas and air second stroke compression ignition and explosion of this charge third stroke the working stroke expansion of the gases fourth stroke expulsion of the products of combustion from the cylinder This is the cycle invented by Beau de Rochas in 1862 and applied by Dr Otto in 1877 in the Otto Crossley gas engine the first commercially successful internal combustion engine made...
Gas
Gas. See the (English) Gasworks Clauses Act, 1847, and other Acts set out in Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Gas.'By s. 161 of the (English) Public Health Act, 1875 (see also (English) Road Traffic Act, 1934 (24 & 25 Geo. 5, c. 50), s. 23), any urban authority may contract with any person for the supply of gas or other means of lighting their district, and provide lamps and other materials for such lighting; or where there is not any company or person authorized by Parliament to supply gas, may themselves undertake to supply gas to their district or such part of it as is not within the limits of supply of any such company or person. by s. 162, an urban authority for the purpose of supplying gas to their district may (with the sanction of the Board of Trade) buy, and the directors of any gas company (duly authorized as required by the Act) may sell and transfer their undertaking to such authority, on agreed terms.Originally gas was supplied to a prescribed illumi-nating standard. Later, when t...
Gas, gasworks
Gas, gasworks, the word 'gas' in the entry will take colour from the other word 'gasworks'. In Ballantine's Law Dictionary, 3rd Edn., 1969 'gasworks' is defined as 'a plant for the manufacture of artificial gas'. Similarly in Webster's New 20th Century Dictionary, it is defined as 'an establishment in which gas for heating and lighting is manufactured'. In www. freedictionary.com 'gasworks' is explained as 'a manufactory of gas, with all the machinery and appurtenances; a place where gas is generated'. Special Reference No (1 of 2001). In Re (2004) 4 SCC 489 (508)....
Liquefied natural gas terminal
Liquefied natural gas terminal, means the facilities and infrastructure required to--(i) receive liquefied natural gas,(ii) store liquefied natural gas,(iii) enable regasification of liquefied natural gas, and(iv) transport regasified liquefied natural gas till the outside boundaries of the facility. Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board Act, 2006, s. 2(t)]...
Engine
Engine. As to malicious injuries to engines and machinery, see Malicious Damage Act, 1861, ss. 11, 14, 15; and as to placing wood, etc., on any railway, with intent to obstruct or overthrow any engine, see s. 35. The use of locomotive engines on railways is authorized by the Railways Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, s. 86, and regulated by s. 116 of that Act. The Railway Fires Act, 1905, as amended by the Railway Fires Act (1905) Amendment Act, 1923, gives compensation for damage by fires caused by sparks or cinders from railway engines; see Martin v. G.E. Railway, (1912) 2 KB 406; A.-G. v. G.W. Railway, (1924) 2 KB 1. See TRACTION ENGINE and SMOKE....
Engineer
A person skilled in the principles and practice of any branch of engineering as a civil engineer an electronic engineer a chemical engineer See under Engineering n...
Civil Engineer
Civil Engineer. In 1923 the Institution of Civil Engineers was granted a supplemental Royal Charter which gives members and associate members an exclusive right to describe themselves as 'Chartered Civil Engineers.' The term 'engineer' was originally understood to mean military engineer; the word 'civil' was therefore applied to distinguish the institution....
Engineer Corps
In the United States army the Corps of Engineers a corps of officers and enlisted men consisting of one band and three battalions of engineers commanded by a brigadier general whose title is Chief of Engineers It has charge of the construction of fortifications for land and seacoast defense the improvement of rivers and harbors the construction of lighthouses etc and in time of war supervises the engineering operations of the armies in the field...
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