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The combustion chamber in gas turbines and jet engines (including ramjets and scramjets) is called the combustor . The combustor is fed with high pressure air by the compression system, adds fuel and burns the mix and feeds the hot, high pressure exhaust into the turbine components of the engine or out the exhaust nozzle.
The nickname pancake engine has been applied to several types of internal combustion engine, including: Avro Canada VZ-9 Avrocar jet engine. Detroit Diesel Series 71 (horizontal version) Electro-Motive Diesel#EMD 'pancake' diesels 16-184 and 16-338 engines. Nordberg Manufacturing Company radial diesel engine. Volkswagen air-cooled engine.
Turboexpanders are widely used as sources of refrigeration in industrial processes such as the extraction of ethane and natural-gas liquids (NGLs) from natural gas, [4] the liquefaction of gases (such as oxygen, nitrogen, helium, argon and krypton) [5] [6] and other low-temperature processes. Turboexpanders currently in operation range in size ...
The hypothesis contended that the wave action continued to damage the hull, until the middle third dropped out like a box, leaving the ship held together by the center deck. The stern section acted as an anchor and caused Edmund Fitzgerald to come to a full stop, causing everything to go forward. The ship broke apart on the surface within seconds.
The company's PPV lineup expanded to a monthly basis in the mid-1990s following the introduction of the In Your House series of pay-per views before expanding even further in the mid-2000s during the first WWE brand extension. In addition, WWE produced international PPVs not available in the United States between 1997 and 2003.
The River-class destroyer, formerly the Canadian Surface Combatant (CSC), and Single Class Surface Combatant Project is the procurement project that will replace the Iroquois and Halifax-class warships with up to 15 new ships beginning in the early 2030s as part of the National Shipbuilding Procurement Strategy.
Gairaigo are Japanese words originating from, or based on, foreign-language, generally Western, terms.These include wasei-eigo (Japanese pseudo-anglicisms).Many of these loanwords derive from Portuguese, due to Portugal's early role in Japanese-Western interaction; Dutch, due to the Netherlands' relationship with Japan amidst the isolationist policy of sakoku during the Edo period; and from ...
Aerial perspective of Northland Shopping Centre with the Melbourne CBD in the background and Olympic Village sporting grounds in April 2023. Northland Shopping Centre is a major shopping centre in Preston, approximately 11 km north of the Melbourne central business district in Victoria, Australia.