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  2. Gas generator - Wikipedia

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    A gas generator is a device for generating gas. A gas generator may create gas by a chemical reaction or from a solid or liquid source, when storing a pressurized gas is undesirable or impractical. The term often refers to a device that uses a rocket propellant to generate large quantities of gas. The gas is typically used to drive a turbine ...

  3. Wood gas generator - Wikipedia

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    Dodge V10 hauling hay with woodgas.Keith gasifier system Santa-Go, Kanagawa Chuo Kotsu Co., Ltd.. A wood gas generator is a gasification unit which converts timber or charcoal into wood gas, a producer gas consisting of atmospheric nitrogen, carbon monoxide, hydrogen, traces of methane, and other gases, which – after cooling and filtering – can then be used to power an internal combustion ...

  4. Gas-generator cycle - Wikipedia

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    The gas-generator cycle, also called open cycle, is one of the most commonly used power cycles in bipropellant liquid rocket engines. Propellant is burned in a gas generator (or "preburner") and the resulting hot gas is used to power the propellant pumps before being exhausted overboard and lost.

  5. Gas turbine - Wikipedia

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    A gas turbine or gas turbine engine is a type of continuous flow internal combustion engine. [1] The main parts common to all gas turbine engines form the power-producing part (known as the gas generator or core) and are, in the direction of flow: a rotating gas compressor; a combustor; a compressor-driving turbine.

  6. Generator - Wikipedia

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    Engine-generator, an electric generator with its own engine; Wearable generator, a hypothetical generator that can be worn on the human body; Gas generator a device, often similar to a solid rocket or a liquid rocket that burns to produce large volumes of relatively cool gas; Motor–generator, a device for converting electrical power to ...

  7. Free-piston engine - Wikipedia

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    Free-piston engine used as a gas generator to drive a turbine. A free-piston engine is a linear, 'crankless' internal combustion engine, in which the piston motion is not controlled by a crankshaft but determined by the interaction of forces from the combustion chamber gases, a rebound device (e.g., a piston in a closed cylinder) and a load device (e.g. a gas compressor or a linear alternator).

  8. Producer gas - Wikipedia

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    Adler Diplomat in WW II with wood gas generator. Producer gas is fuel gas that is manufactured by blowing through a coke or coal fire with air and steam simultaneously. [1] It mainly consists of carbon monoxide (CO), hydrogen (H 2), as well as substantial amounts of nitrogen (N 2). The caloric value of the producer gas is low (mainly because of ...

  9. Cogeneration - Wikipedia

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    The systems are popular in small sizes because small gas and diesel engines are less expensive than small gas- or oil-fired steam-electric plants. Some cogeneration plants are fired by biomass, [11] or industrial and municipal solid waste (see incineration). Some CHP plants use waste gas as the fuel for electricity and heat generation.