enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Diesel exhaust - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diesel_exhaust

    Diesel engines can produce black soot (or more specifically diesel particulate matter) from their exhaust. The black smoke consists of carbon compounds that have not burned because of local low temperatures where the fuel is not fully atomized. These local low temperatures occur at the cylinder walls, and at the surface of large droplets of fuel.

  3. Exhaust gas - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exhaust_gas

    Exhaust gas or flue gas is emitted as a result of the combustion of fuels such as natural gas, gasoline (petrol), diesel fuel, fuel oil, biodiesel blends, [1] or coal. According to the type of engine, it is discharged into the atmosphere through an exhaust pipe , flue gas stack , or propelling nozzle .

  4. Flue-gas stack - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flue-gas_stack

    A flue gas stack at GRES-2 Power Station in Ekibastuz, Kazakhstan, the tallest of its kind in the world (420 meters or 1,380 feet) [1]. A flue-gas stack, also known as a smoke stack, chimney stack or simply as a stack, is a type of chimney, a vertical pipe, channel or similar structure through which flue gases are exhausted to the outside air.

  5. Smoke - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoke

    As early as the 15th century Leonardo da Vinci commented at length on the difficulty of assessing smoke, and distinguished between black smoke (carbonized particles) and white 'smoke' which is not a smoke at all but merely a suspension of harmless water particulates. [64] Smoke from heating appliances is commonly measured in one of the ...

  6. Head gasket - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_gasket

    Blue smoke from the exhaust suggests that excess oil is entering the combustion chambers (although there are other possible causes than a head gasket leak). White smoke from the exhaust suggests that coolant is entering the combustion chamber. Head gasket leaks are classified as either external or internal.

  7. Flashover - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flashover

    For example, there was a fire in a rubber mattress factory in London in 1975 which produced white smoke. The white smoke was not considered dangerous, so firefighters decided to ventilate, which caused a smoke explosion and killed two firefighters. The white smoke from the pyrolysis of the rubber turned out to be extremely flammable. [citation ...

  8. Funnel (ship) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funnel_(ship)

    SS France (1960) (as SS Norway) and her distinctive wings, to increase uplift on the funnel's exhaust. The primary purpose of a ship's funnel(s) is to lift the exhaust gases clear of the deck, in order not to foul the ship's structure or decks, and to avoid impairing the ability of the crew to carry out their duties.

  9. Chimney (locomotive) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimney_(locomotive)

    As well, steam locomotive exhaust systems typically vent cylinder steam exhaust through the chimney, to enhance the draught through the boiler. Chimneys are designed to carry the exhaust steam and smoke clear of the driver's line of sight while remaining short enough to clear overhead structures. Some chimneys included apparatus to suppress the ...