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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 engine
A kind of internal combustion engine which see using fixed gas also broadly any internal combustion engine...
Gasoline
A highly volatile mixture of fluid hydrocarbons obtained mostly from petroleum as also by the distillation of bituminous coal It is used as a fuel for most automobiles and for many other vehicles with internal combustion engines The gasoline of commerce is typically blended with additives to improve its performance in internal combustion engines Gasoline was also used in the early 1900s in making air gas and in giving illuminating power to water gas See Carburetor...
Semi Diesel
Designating an internal combustion engine of a type resembling the Diesel engine in using as fuel heavy oil which is injected in a spray just before the end of the compression stroke and is fired without electrical ignition The fuel is sprayed into an iron box called a hot bulb or hot pot opening into the combustion chamber and heated for ignition by a blast lamp until the engine is running when it is ordinarily kept red hot by the heat of combustion...
blowby
the leakage of gases from the combustion cylinder of an internal combustion engine between the piston and cylinder wall into the crankcase...
Motor car
An automobile locomobile or locomotive designed to run and be steered on a street or roadway esp an automobile specially designed for passengers and propelled by an internal combustion engine...
Works contract
Works contract, means any agreement for carrying out for cash, deferred payment or other valuable consideration-(a) the construction, fitting out, improvement, or repair of any building, road, bridge or other immovable property,(b) the installation or repair of any machinery affixed to a building or other immovable property,(c) the overhaul or repair of-(i) any motor vehicle,(ii) any sea-going vessel, river craft or steamer,(iii) any other vessel propelled by internal combustion engine or by any other mechanical means,(iv) railway engine,(v) any aircraft, or(vi) any component or accessory part of any of the goods mentioned in items (i) to (v), or(d) the fitting of, assembling, altering, ornamenting, finishing, furnishing, improving, processing, treating or adapting any goods. [West Bengal Value Added Tax Act, 2003, s. 2(57)]...
Motor bicycle
Motor bicycle, means a motor vehicle which has two wheels, and has a maximum design speed exceeding 45 kmph and, if powered by an internal combustion engine, has a cylinder capacity exceeding 50 cubic centimeters, and includes a combination of such a motor vehicle and a side-car. [(English) Road Traffic Act, 1988, s. 108(1) (as amended)]...
Automobile
Automobile, 'automobile' means any vehicle powered either by internal combustion engine or by any method of generating power to drive such vehicle. [Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, (14 of 1981) s. 2(e)]...
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