Sentences with phrase «small amount of fuel»

Your brain is a big scary sleeping tiger that should be fed small amounts of fuel all day — not too much, not too little.

If opened, the very small amount of fuel that is enclosed would immediately cool.

In practice, the engine introduces small amounts of fuel (pilot injections) to optimise noise and emissions and, with the main injection, manages the injected quantity of fuel necessary to provide the performance required by the driver, ensuring particularly smooth engine operation in all situations.

Unlike many other forms of energy, it takes a small amount of fuel to produce a large amount of energy, Synakowski said.

They say it is due to a small amount of fuel left unburnt when the engine is shut off.

The turbocharged unit continues to use pre-chamber ignition, whereby a small amount of fuel is ignited before the main engine chamber in order to achieve more uniform combustion, but Renault is yet to adopt the split turbo setup pioneered by rival Mercedes.

Would that small amount of fuel be burnt up (without producing enough energy to push the piston down noticeably), or would it fail to ignite and pass through the exhaust system?

The system injects a small amount of fuel directly into the engine's cylinders and ignites it to generate downward piston force which, with the aid of an electric motor, rapidly returns the engine to idle speed.

Additionally, as the fuel comes directly into contact with the cold cylinder walls and piston, a small amount of fuel may impinge on the piston, which during evaporation may lead to diffusion combustion and PM formation.

When you call Roadside Assistance, Mercedes - Benz offers complimentary services like replacing a flat tire with a spare, jump starts, delivering a small amount of fuel if you run out.

Quantas notes the plane had a small amount of fuel and was not carrying passengers or cargo.

One is a report on the Wheels blog by my friend Jim Motavalli about the possible rebirth of the «air car,» a vehicle that runs on compressed air and a small amount of fuel to run a heater that boosts its range (it is said to get the equivalent of more than 100 miles per gallon when you account for the energy it takes to compress the air).

Thus, it takes a lot of land (and water) to yield a small amount of fuel from plants.

It uses land needed for food production and carbon storage, it requires large areas to generate just a small amount of fuel, and it won't typically cut greenhouse gas emissions.