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The '''Stelzer engine''' is a [[two-stroke]] opposing-piston [[free-piston engine]] design proposed by Frank Stelzer. It uses conjoined [[piston]]s in ...ww.nytimes.com/1983/06/27/business/free-piston-engine-debated.html | title=Free-Piston Engine Debated| newspaper=The New York Times| date=1983-06-27| last1=Taglil ...

...methane]].<ref>{{cite journal | title=Alternative Fuels for Spark Ignition Engines | first=Yousef S.H. | last=Naijar | journal=The Open Fuels & Energy Science The working cycle of both spark-ignition and compression-ignition engines may be either [[two-stroke cycle|two-stroke]] or [[four-stroke cycle|four-s ...

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...mpressor]] and [[mixed flow compressor]]. A fourth, unusual, type is the [[free-piston]] gas generator, which combines the functions of compressor and [[combustio ...gal compressors and they are still used on small turbojets and turbo shaft engines. ...

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...purpose of compressing or ejecting the [[fluid]] in the cylinder. In some engines, the piston also acts as a [[valve]] by covering and uncovering [[Porting ( ==Piston engines== ...

...e have been no successful demonstrations of claimed efficiency or that the engines are durable enough for practical use. ==Steam engines== ...

...ce [[shaft horsepower]] rather than [[jet thrust]]. In concept, turboshaft engines are very similar to [[turbojet]]s, with additional turbine expansion to ext Turboshaft engines are commonly used in applications that require a sustained high power outpu ...

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...crease [[fuel efficiency]] while under varying loads. Variable compression engines allow the volume above the piston at [[Dead centre (engineering)|top dead c Gasoline engines have a limit on the maximum pressure during the compression stroke, after w ...

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...]; and the [[Stirling engine]] for niche applications. Internal combustion engines are further classified in two ways: either a [[spark-ignition engine|spark- ...ust gas|exhausted]]" gases are removed from the cylinder by this [[Stroke (engines)|stroke]]. The exception is the [[Stirling engine]], which repeatedly heats ...

...te=2021-04-03}}</ref> It is most commonly used in [[inline-four]] and [[V6 engines]] used in automobiles and motorcycles. === Two-cylinder engines === ...

...kage actually used by Watt (also invented by him) in his later rotary beam engines was called the [[parallel motion]] linkage, a development of "Watt's linkag ...rod of the 1865 [[Crossness Pumping Station|Crossness engines]]. In these engines, the low pressure piston rod uses the more conventional [[parallel motion]] ...

{{Short description|A pressure release system in turbocharged engines}} ...essure release system present in most petrol [[turbocharger|turbocharged]] engines. Blowoff valves are used to reduce pressure in the intake system as the thr ...

...ject still under development, called [[Kilopower]], also utilizes Stirling engines, but uses a small [[uranium]] [[Nuclear reactor|fission reactor]] as the he In 2020, a free-piston Stirling power converter reached 15 years of maintenance-free and degradati ...

...r]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Robert Sier|title=Hot air caloric and stirling engines. Vol.1, A history|edition=1st Edition (Revised)|publisher=L.A. Mair|year=19 ...Stirling cycle. In real applications of the Stirling cycles (e.g. Stirling engines) this cycle is quasi-elliptical.]] ...