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  2. Wood gas generator - Wikipedia

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    Dodge V10 hauling hay with woodgas.Keith gasifier system Santa-Go, Kanagawa Chuo Kotsu Co., Ltd.. A wood gas generator is a gasification unit which converts timber or charcoal into wood gas, a producer gas consisting of atmospheric nitrogen, carbon monoxide, hydrogen, traces of methane, and other gases, which – after cooling and filtering – can then be used to power an internal combustion ...

  3. Wood gas - Wikipedia

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    Wood gas is a fuel gas that can be used for furnaces, stoves, and vehicles. During the production process, biomass or related carbon-containing materials are gasified within the oxygen-limited environment of a wood gas generator to produce a combustible mixture. In some gasifiers this process is preceded by pyrolysis, where the biomass or coal ...

  4. Ford Model A engine - Wikipedia

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    The Ford Model A engine was an evolution of the Ford Model T engine, but with double the power. It was developed in secret at Ford's Rouge Plant, in Michigan, and unveiled – with the Ford Model A automobile – December 2, 1927. The first Model A engine was completed earlier, October 20, 1927, and eventually installed in a 1928 Model A Fordor ...

  5. Gas engine - Wikipedia

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    A gas engine is an internal combustion engine that runs on a fuel gas (a gaseous fuel), such as coal gas, producer gas, biogas, landfill gas, natural gas or hydrogen. In the United Kingdom and British English -speaking countries, the term is unambiguous. In the United States, due to the widespread use of "gas" as an abbreviation for gasoline ...

  6. Corliss steam engine - Wikipedia

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    A Corliss steam engine (or Corliss engine) is a steam engine, fitted with rotary valves and with variable valve timing patented in 1849, invented by and named after the US engineer George Henry Corliss of Providence, Rhode Island. Corliss assumed the original invention from Frederick Ellsworth Sickels (1819- 1895), who held the patent (1829) in ...

  7. Desmodromic valve - Wikipedia

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    Desmodromic poppet valve in a Ducati engine. A desmodromic valve is a reciprocating engine poppet valve that is positively closed by a cam and leverage system, rather than by a more conventional spring. The valves in a typical four-stroke engine allow the air/fuel mixture into the cylinder at the beginning of the cycle and exhaust spent gases ...

  8. Overhead valve engine - Wikipedia

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    Overhead valve engine. Components of a traditional OHV engine valvetrain. An overhead valve engine, abbreviated (OHV) and sometimes called a pushrod engine, is a piston engine whose valves are located in the cylinder head above the combustion chamber. This contrasts with flathead (or "sidevalve") engines, where the valves were located below the ...

  9. Tappet - Wikipedia

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    In an internal combustion engine, a tappet (also called a 'valve lifter' or 'cam follower') [3][4][5] is the component which converts the rotation of the camshaft into vertical motion to open and close an intake or exhaust valve. The principal types of tappets used in automotive engines are solid, hydraulic, and roller. [6][7]