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Pressure carburetor — A pressure carburetor is a type of fuel metering system for piston aircraft engines manufactured by the Bendix Corporation starting in the 1940s. It is recognized as an early type of mechanical fuel injection and was developed to prevent fuel… … Wikipedia
Carburetor — Bendix Technico (Stromberg) 1 barrel downdraft carburetor model BXUV 3, with nomenclature A carburetor (American spelling), carburettor, or carburetter (Commonwealth spelling) is a device that blends air and fuel for an internal combustion engine … Wikipedia
Carburetor heat — Carburetor, carburettor, carburator, carburettet heat (usually abbreviated to carb heat ) is a system used in automobile and piston powered light aircraft engines to prevent or clear carburetor icing. It consists of a moveable flap which draws… … Wikipedia
carburetor — /kahr beuh ray teuhr, byeuh /, n. a device for mixing vaporized fuel with air to produce a combustible or explosive mixture, as for an internal combustion engine. Also, carburator, carbureter; esp. Brit., carburettor, carburetter /kahr byeuh ret… … Universalium
carburetor icing — The most common form of engine icing, which is caused by a sudden drop in temperature resulting from vaporization of the fuel and adiabatic cooling following the pressure reduction as the air accelerates through the venturi of the carburetor. The … Aviation dictionary
Mean effective pressure — The mean effective pressure is a quantity related to the operation of an reciprocating engine and is a valuable measure of an engine s capacity to do work that is independent of engine displacement[1]. When quoted as an indicated mean effective… … Wikipedia
SU carburetor — SU carburettors (named for Skinners Union, the company that produced them) were a brand of carburettor usually of the sidedraught type but downdraught variants were used on some pre war cars. They were widely used in British (Austin, Morris,… … Wikipedia
injection carburetor — A carburetor that measures the rate at which air is being consumed, taking into account the engine speed and boost pressure, and meters fuel through a vaporizing nozzle to the inlet of a supercharger or intake manifold … Aviation dictionary
servo-type carburetor — A type of carburetor or continuous flow fuel injection system that uses the pressure drop across a servometering jet to control the amount of metered fuel going into the cylinders of a reciprocating engine. The metered fuel is directly… … Aviation dictionary
reference pressure — The fuel bowl is vented to the outside air to maintain a constant (atmospheric) pressure on the fuel, thus maintaining a constant fuel level as a point of reference for the other system in the carburetor … Dictionary of automotive terms
