The internal combustion engine; a text-book for the use of students and engineers (1915)
Wimperis, Harry Egerton, 1876- · New York, D. Van Nostrand company · leaf 278
hich sweeps it along, instead of byactual rushing contact with the hot vaporizer tubes. Further,the mixture enters the cylinder much sooner after its creation chap, viii] OIL AND PETROL ENGINES 255 t han in the other arrangement, and it is evidently advantageousto allow time for the paraffin vapour… … Fig. 84.—Cottrell Paraffin Carburettor. Shown diagrammatically. to the higher temperature of the entering charge which fora given cylinder volume naturally reduces the weight admitted.There is also a loss owing to the necessary lowering of the com-pression ratio and consequent lowering of thermal…
Internal combustion engines
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