Reeve, Sidney A. (Sidney Armor), 1866-1941 · New York, London, The Macmillan Company · leaf 316
mixture taken in; (2) To reduce the clearance-volume in like proportion, in order to maintain a constant degree of compres-sion. THE OTTO GAS-ENGINE 299 The first cannot be accomplished, in the standard Ottoengine, except by recourse to an automatic cut-off. As thethrottling of the charge is a… … Half Rated Brake LoadFIG. ss (It should be said, however, that the friction in gettingthe gases into and out of a gas-engine cylinder usually con-stitutes as much as two-thirds of its entire frictional loss,and this is much exaggerated where throttling is substi-tuted for automatic cut-off. The…
Thermodynamics · Heat-engines
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