Sentences with phrase «only fuel mixture»

The only fuel mixture that meets the requirements of both set of reactions is mixture very near stoichiometric.

Not exact matches

The traditional cylinder - piston design used in engines means that only the piston head itself produces motive force, as it is pushed up and down by the expansion of the burning fuel - and - air mixture.

Hydrogen, being an extremely light element, makes up only about 5 % of the weight of a rocket fuel mixture, and can thus be imported from Earth; heavy insulation and some gelling of the mixture with methane (as the hydrogen will not be fed directly into an engine) will reduce in - space boil - off to negligible levels.

It forces a denser mixture of fuel and air into the engine, which increases power while only marginally affecting fuel mileage.

I only changed oil, tires and brakes on that one but the engine light started coming on (rich fuel mixture) and the transmission started doing it's goofiness at about 120,000 miles.

That, Stephan Reil, Head of Technical Development for Audi Sport, says was done for a number of reasons many of which would only appeal to hardcore engineers, but it basically comes down to burning a better mixture of air and injected fuel in the combustion chambers.

A particularly rich and therefore ignitable fuel / air mixture is therefore available only in the direct vicinity of the spark plug.

Many of these small internal combustion engines used for yardwork can release as much as 30 % of the fuel / oil mixture as unburned pollutants into the atmosphere due to incomplete combustion, which not only wastes fuel and money, but also contributes to air pollution.

Since a plug - in can operate on electricity alone, gasoline alone, or a mixture of the two, EPA provides a fuel economy estimate for gasoline - only operation and an estimate for electric - only or gas - and - electric operation — both for combined city - highway driving.