A plant in South Africa, which was losing up to 20% of output owing to frequent downtime over more than ten years, ...

Finally, the scroll compressor’s simplicity requires only the stationary and the orbiting scroll to compress gas. Piston-type compressors require about 15 parts to do the same task. In summary, the ...

Any time a fixed volume (compressor’s cylinder) is filled with a higher pressure, more refrigerant gas molecules will be present, causing a higher refrigerant density. The mass flow rate of ...

Some engines use a spark to ignite their fuel, and others rely on compression. What does all of that mean? And how do the two ...

Compression Comprehension. You can run 11:1 or even 12:1 compression on your pump-gas street motor, but you'll need this simple advie to make it happen.

Turning an A/C Compressor Into a Gas-Burning Internal Combustion Engine Most air conditioner compressors are just tiny piston engines, but it still takes some ingenuity to convert one to run via ...

A piston engine can suck in its own air and then compress it 10-20x (gas vs diesel, to the nearest multiple of ten) with plenty of leftover energy after the fuel is burned to drive the crank or an ...

When I first started working for HOT ROD magazine more than 30 years ago, nearly all American domestic production cars used a thick, 5/64-5/64-3/16-inch piston-ring package. The top, usually plain ...