General concepts and measuring tools behind heat engines, such as the heat engine itself, the chemistry of combustion and the indicator diagram used to measure cylinder performance. A topic belongs here when its cited article defines a basic principle or instrument of heat engines rather than one particular engine design. These topics are the background to every heat engine, covering what a heat engine does, the chemistry that releases its heat and the chart engineers draw to see how a piston engine performs. A topic is placed here when the cited article defines such a principle or instrument.
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Heat engine - Wikipedia
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A heat engine is a system that transfers thermal energy to do mechanical or electrical work.
Wikipedia: Combustion
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Combustion, or burning, is a high-temperature exothermic redox chemical reaction between a fuel (the reductant) and an oxidant, usually atmospheric oxygen, that produces oxidized, often gaseous products, in a mixture termed as smoke.
Wikipedia: Indicator diagram
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An indicator diagram is a chart used to measure the thermal, or cylinder, performance of reciprocating steam and internal combustion engines and compressors.
Wikipedia: Thermoacoustics
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Thermoacoustics is the interaction between temperature, density and pressure variations of acoustic waves.
Wikipedia: Pyrometer
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A pyrometer, or radiation thermometer, is a type of remote sensing thermometer used to measure the temperature of distant objects.
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