Heat engines in which fuel is burned inside the engine itself, including the diesel, Wankel, two-stroke, four-stroke, six-stroke and reciprocating piston designs. A technology belongs here when its cited article calls it an internal combustion engine or a type or cycle of one. It excludes steam engines and turbines, where the fire is outside the working cylinder or blades, and excludes jet engines.
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Wikipedia: Internal combustion engine
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An internal combustion engine (ICE or IC engine) is a heat engine in which the combustion of a fuel occurs with an oxidizer (usually air) in a combustion chamber that is an integral part of the working fluid flow circuit.
View the Source Wikipedia: Diesel engine
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A diesel engine is an internal combustion engine in which ignition of diesel fuel is caused by the elevated temperature of the air in the cylinder due to mechanical compression; thus, the diesel engine is also called a compression-ignition engine (or CI engine).
View the Source Wankel engine, Wikipedia
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The Wankel engine (, VAHN-kəl) is a type of internal combustion engine using an eccentric rotary design to convert pressure into rotating motion.
View the Source Wikipedia: Reciprocating engine
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A reciprocating engine, more often known as a piston engine, is a heat engine that uses one or more reciprocating pistons to convert high temperature and high pressure into a rotating motion.
View the Source Wikipedia: Two-stroke engine
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A two-stroke (or two-stroke cycle) engine is a type of internal combustion engine that completes a power cycle with two strokes of the piston, one up and one down, in one revolution of the crankshaft in contrast to a four-stroke engine which requires four strokes of the piston in two crankshaft revolutions to complete a power cycle.
View the Source Wikipedia: Four-stroke engine
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A four-stroke (also four-cycle) engine is an internal combustion (IC) engine in which the piston completes four separate strokes while turning the crankshaft.
View the Source Wikipedia: Six-stroke engine
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A six-stroke engine is one of several alternative internal combustion engine designs that attempt to improve on traditional two-stroke and four-stroke engines.
View the Source Wikipedia: Atkinson cycle
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The Atkinson-cycle engine is a type of internal combustion engine invented by James Atkinson in 1882.
View the Source Wikipedia: Miller cycle
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In engineering, the Miller cycle is a thermodynamic cycle used in a type of internal combustion engine.
View the Source Free-piston engine (Wikipedia)
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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).
View the Source Homogeneous charge compression ignition, Wikipedia
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Homogeneous charge compression ignition (HCCI) is a form of internal combustion in which well-mixed fuel and oxidizer (typically air) are compressed to the point of auto-ignition.
View the Source Wikipedia: Split-cycle engine
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The split-cycle engine is a type of internal combustion engine.
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