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Although carburetor technology in automobiles reached a very high degree of sophistication and precision, from the mid-1980s it lost out on cost and flexibility to fuel injection. Simple forms of carburetor remain in widespread use in small engines such as lawn mowers and more sophisticated forms are still used in small motorcycles.
Vapor lock is a problem caused by liquid fuel changing state to vapor while still in the fuel delivery system of gasoline-fueled internal combustion engines.This disrupts the operation of the fuel pump, causing loss of feed pressure to the carburetor or fuel injection system, resulting in transient loss of power or complete stalling.
Most choke valves in engines are butterfly valves mounted upstream of the carburetor jet to produce a higher partial vacuum, which increases the fuel draw. [ 1 ] In heavy industrial or fluid engineering contexts, including oil and gas production, a choke valve or choke is a particular design of valve with a solid cylinder placed inside another ...
The most basic carbureted engines, such as older small single cylinder Briggs & Stratton lawn-mower engines, feature a single throttle plate in a basic carburetor with a single venturi. The throttle can be varied and there is always a small hole or other bypass to allow a small amount of air to flow through so the engine can idle if the ...
The term carburetor is derived from the verb carburet, which means "to combine with carbon", [6] or, in particular, "to enrich a gas by combining it with carbon or hydrocarbons". [7] Thus a carburetor mixes intake air with hydrocarbon-based fuel, such as petrol or autogas (LPG). [8]
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