Gas-engines and producer-gas plants; a practice treatise setting forth the principles of gas-engines and producer design, the selection and installation of an engine, conditions of perfect operation, producer-gas engines and their possibilities, the care of gas-engines and producer-gas plants, with a chapter on volatile hydrocarbon and oil engines (1905)
Mathot, Rodolphe Edgard, 1866- · New York N.W. Henley Pub. Co · leaf 155
r, a practice which en- 156 GAS-ENGINES AND PRODUCERS gineers of modern ideas seem to consider of much im-portance, is better effected with high pressures, for thesimple reason that the explosion-chamber, at the endof the return stroke, contains considerably less burntgases when its volume is… … Fig. 76.—Method of cooling the cylinder-head. inch. With the higher pressures thus obtained thereis consequently no reason for subjecting the movingparts to greater forces. Cooling.—The increase in tempera^^ure of the cylin-der-head and of the valves, due wholly to high com-pression, is perfectly…
Gas · Internal combustion engines
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