Sentences with phrase «of a heat engine in»

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So here's the deal: GE makes super materials capable of containing the heat from the hottest - burning engines in history.

Revenue benefits include 20 - year index - linked, government - backed incentive payments, with about # 2m ($ 2.84 m) per annum in support through the government's RHI scheme and a further # 1m ($ 1.42 m) through the sale of gas to the wholesale market and from the Feed in Tariff scheme for the power generated in the combined heat and power (CHP) engine.

Drop a dab of this yellow dynamite on your naked tongue, and in less than two seconds you'll feel the heat in your sinuses like the afterburner from a jet engine.

Thanks to its compact size — less than 1 m in height — and with a connection size of 80 mm, the Alfa Laval T8 is the ideal gasketed plate heat exchanger for HVAC applications in buildings, as well as numerous other industries such as fluid power, metalworking, marine, power generation, general manufacturing, general utility cooling, engine cooling, and the semi-conductor industry.

An utterly fearless type whose only fault is that he sometimes babies his engine, Muncey has made tentative plans to drive a second boat, Thriftway Too, in at least the first heat of the Gold Cup.

His 16 yellow cards during that time suggests that he is not afraid to put his foot in when involved in the heat of the engine room battle.

Even if this is the only role that woman would play in the political engine room of 2019, she has ignited it and if the heat gets too much for her exit from the cabinet, that wont alter anything.

The human body is like an engine that continuously generates large quantities of heat, and its radiator, so to speak, disperses heat least effectively in hotter climes.

Among other adjustments that could help double fuel economy are turbocharging with smaller, more efficient engines that produce the same level of power; advanced heat management and cooling systems, which reuse the heat produced in the engine for energy; weight reduction, including broader use of high - strength steel that is already in some cars today; better aerodynamics; more efficient air conditioners, transmissions and lighting devices (including headlights); and increased electrification leading to full hybridization with electric motor and regenerative breaking — all of which currently exist.

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Such materials can be used to help scavenge or dissipate the heat in engines, or be developed into a window coating that improves the efficient use of energy in buildings, the researchers said.

In the new engine, a calcium ion converts heat to motion when it is hit by noise coming from a set of electrodes.

The findings, to be published in the Jan. 27 issue of the journal Science, could lead to a wide range of applications, such as thermoelectric systems that convert waste heat from engines and appliances into electricity.

In the Bristol group's theoretical depiction, crucially, the energy level spacing of the qubit to be cooled and that of the refrigerator's «engine» together add up to exactly the energy level spacing of the refrigerator's «heat coil.»

In the case of Earth, there's another 6300 kilometers of rock and iron beneath the tectonic plates whose churnings constitute the inner workings of a planetary heat engine.

For example, photonic crystals could funnel excess heat from a power plant's generator and release it over a much smaller band of frequencies to drive engines — such as those in electric - powered cars that can absorb energy only within a small range — much more efficiently.

The process does generate heat, which the researchers say can be used for a number of tasks, including heating water and food in the galley, de-icing operations, or heating aircraft fuel prior to starting the engines.

The engine behind a quasar's efficient brilliance is a monster black hole, as massive as a billion or more suns, which consumes gas so voraciously that the stuff heats to millions of degrees as it falls in.

Some of this technology is already in use in hybrids: Regenerative braking converts the car's motion into electricity as the vehicle comes to a stop, and BMW and Honda are designing devices that recover heat from engine exhaust.

In theory, it is assumed that the power of a heat engine can be increased by linking it to a quantum heat bath, thus providing a wealth of possibilities that can be used to move beyond the standard accepted boundaries of classical thermodynamics and construct new types of engines.

In the next few weeks, the research arm of Australia's largest company, BHP, will carry out tests on heat treatments to sterilise ballast water, using the water that cools the ship's engines.

An article in the latest edition of the journal Science describes an innovative form of heat engine that operates using only one single atom.

Thermodynamics, the physical theory that resulted from the study of these machines, proved to be an extremely fruitful approach; it is still a central concept in the optimisation of energy use in heat engines.

What happened to the heat engines invented in 1816 by Robert Stirling that could significantly boost the efficiency of these power stations?

Harvesting heat produced by a car's engine which would otherwise be wasted and using it to recharge the car's batteries or powering the air - conditioning system could be a significant feature in the next generation of hybrid cars.

In the familiar heat engine model at macroscopic scale, referred to as the Carnot heat engine, the efficiency increases as a function of the ratio between the temperatures of the low - and high - temperature baths.

By comparison, the efficiency of two - level quantum heat engines is related to the level of quantum entanglement in these two states, which are either at a low or a high temperature, and display the same probability of being occupied.

Now, imagine a heat engine that operates at quantum scale, and a system made up of an atom interacting with light (photons) confined in a reflective cavity of sub-atomic dimensions.

«Quantum manipulation power for quantum information processing gets a boost: Improving the efficiency of quantum heat engines involves reducing the number of photons in a cavity, ultimately impacting quantum manipulation power.»

To improve fuel efficiency, advanced combustion engines are being designed to minimize the amount of heat wasted in the exhaust.

Today's engines are pretty inefficient, converting only around a quarter of the energy contained in fuel into motion; the remaining three - quarters is lost as heat.

For the transportation industry, the ability to modify manufacturing processes to create high - performance materials could aid in the development of more fuel - efficient engines or engine parts that can withstand heat better to have longer lifespans.

Researchers found that the same heated chemical processes that give rise to the formation of pyrene are also relevant to combustion processes in vehicle engines, for example, and the formation of soot particles.

They found that adding a bit of nitrogen oxide, released in combustion engine car exhaust, resulted in particles that trapped some heat.

In order to run at high temperatures, the metal components of airplane engines are presently treated with heat - shielding coatings.

Standard Equipment: 3.0 - liter turbo - diesel V - 6 engine 7 - speed automatic transmission 4Matic permanent all - wheel drive 4 - wheel Airmatic suspension Hill start assist Speed sensitive power steering 4 - wheel electric traction control 4 - wheel disc brakes with ABS Tire pressure monitoring system 19 - inch alloy wheels Power tilt / sliding sunroof Fixed panorama sunroof over 3rd row seats Rain - sensing wipers Comand system with 6.5 - inch display Bluetooth connectivity In - dash 6 - disc DVD / CD changer Three rows of seating 8 - speaker audio system Dual - zone automatic climate control Premium leather - wrapped steering wheel Heated front seats Power windows / locks / mirrors Privacy glass

These engines reportedly have a warmup strategy that makes emissions controls heat up faster, which is in itself not a violation, but may prove so if the system only activates during emissions test cycles instead of real - world driving.

Because of the compression limitation required to prevent «engine knock», a typical gasoline engine can only deliver about 25 % efficiency — only 25 % of the BTU's in a gallon of gasoline are converted to mechanical energy that turns the wheels of the car, the other 75 % is lost in waste heat.

Varney admits there was quite a heated debate over what level to set the soundtrack at (and promises I'll hear more of it when I get the opportunity to exercise my right foot) but in the end it was decided to click it back a few notches for the XFR and leave it a little more open - mouthed in the identically engined XKR.

MSRP (with destination): $ 31,970 PRICE AS TESTED: $ 37,805 ENGINE: 3.6 - liter DOHC V - 6 Horsepower: 285 hp @ 6400 rpm Torque: 260 lb - ft @ 4800 rpm TRANSMISSION: 5 - speed automatic DRIVE: Four - wheel WHEELS AND TIRES: 18 - inch aluminum wheels 255 / 70SR -18 Bridgestone Dueler A / T tires FUEL ECONOMY (city / highway / combined): 16/20/18 mpg CURB WEIGHT: 4294 lb CAPACITIES: Doors / Passengers: 4/5 Cargo (rear seats up / down): 46.4 / 86.8 cu ft Legroom (front / rear): 41.0 / 37.2 in Headroom (front / rear): 41.3 / 40.4 in Towing: 2000 lb EXTERIOR / INTERIOR COLOR: Black / Black STANDARD FEATURES: 6 - speed manual transmission Stability and traction control Hill start assist Roll mitigation Part - time four - wheel drive 3.21 rear axle ratio Transfer case and fuel tank skid plates Cruise control 115V auxiliary power outlet Air conditioning 7 - speaker Infinity audio system w / subwoofer Auxiliary audio jack SiriusXM satellite radio w / one - year subscription Tilt steering wheel Temperature gauge and compass Leather - wrapped steering wheel w / audio controls Height - adjustable driver's seat 60 / 40 - split folding rear seats Rear compartment covered storage OPTIONS ON THIS VEHICLE: Altitude Edition - $ 2995 18 - inch painted aluminum wheels Black Jeep grille badge Front and rear bumper body - color appliques Gloss black interior accents Red interior stitching accents Altitude floor mats and hood decal Heated front seats Body - color 3 - piece hardtop Mopar fuel filler door Freedom panel storage bag Rear window washer, wiper, and defroster Connectivity group - $ 385 USB port Electronic vehicle information center UConnect voice control w / Bluetooth 5 - speed automatic transmission - $ 1125 Hill descent control Track - Lok rear limited slip differential - $ 295 UConnect 430N - $ 1035 40 GB hard drive w / 28 available GB SiriusXM travel link w / one - year subscription 6.5 - inch touchscreen display Navigation KEY OPTIONS NOT ON THIS VEHICLE: Dual top group - $ 890 Trailer tow group - $ 295 3.73 rear axle ratio - $ 95 ADDITIONAL SPECS: This is the one of the top - tier Wrangler Unlimited trim levels, only trumped in price by the «Call of Duty: MW3 Edition» Wrangler Unlimited model.

the pistons are made of aluminium and the cylinders have a special tough glassy coating so they screatch very easily and when the engine is too hot the aluminium deforms and heats in a vicious circle until they lock up or it overheats and smokes.

According to Champion Spark Plugs, for normally aspirated, gasoline - fueled engines, a good rule of thumb is to go about one heat range colder for each full point in compression ratio increase from 9:1 through about 12.5:1, and two heat ranges colder for each point increase between 12.5:1 and 14.5:1.

Welsh plugs are mainly made of carbon steel, and with out antifreeze in the coolant water, they corrode quite fast with the engine heating and cooling.

We're able to fire up the engine and start heating the driver's seat and steering wheel from the comfort of our homes on frigid mornings, which makes it even more difficult to get the Ram's key as temperatures hover in the single digits.

Remember that the car runs by burning gasoline inside of a metal box (the engine)- things therefore get quite hot in the normal course of operation, and a good deal of engineering has been devoted to making sure that that heat is dissipated safely.

Good luck finding a Panamera that costs anywhere close to this $ 78,095 base price, though, as Porsche's crazy option pricing means that most Panamera sedans, regardless of engine choice, will fall much closer to the range - topping, 570 - hp, all - wheel - drive Panamera Turbo S Executive in terms of price once you add equipment like a full leather interior, heated seats, and a backup camera.

If you have a leaky heater core you will see coolant coming out of the heating ventilation Air conditioning (HVAC) drain down low on the engine side of steel dash panel (right in front of the front seat passenger).

In global markets, the Eos is said to get a few other touches for 2011, including the full 208 horsepower of the newest version of the GTI's 2.0 - liter turbocharged four - cylinder engine, along with standard Hill Start Assist, Vienna heated leather seats, and 17 - inch wheels.

Typically coolants are not as efficient as plain water at taking heat away from the hot parts of the engine and loosing that heat in the radiator.

Edit: Coolant in some cars passes through a type of fast idle valve that raises and lowers a plunger (connected to some type of heat reactive wax that closes the airway fully when the coolant is at OT) through a tube that feeds more or less air through the engine raising or lowering its speed.