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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 20

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gines, of the four-cycle type, such as are industriallyemployed, will here be principally considered. The Otto Cycle.—The term four-cycle motor, orOtto engine, has its origin in the manner in which theengine operates. A complete cycle comprises four dis-tinct periods which are diagrammatically… … Fig. 2.—First cvcle: Suction. The Second Period.—Compression: The piston re-turns to its initial position. All admission and exhaustvalves are closed (Fig. 3). The mixture drawn induring the first period is compressed. 22 GAS-ENGINES AND PRODUCERS The Third Period.—Explosion and Expansion: \Micnthe…

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