Explore: Combustion Temperature

Combustion, or burning, is a high-temperature exothermic redox chemical reaction between a fuel (the reductant) and an oxidant, usually atmospheric oxygen

circuit. In an internal combustion engine, the expansion of the high-temperature and high-pressure gases produced by combustion applies direct force to

is determined by bringing all the products of combustion back to the original pre-combustion temperature, including condensing any vapor produced. Such

Fluidized bed combustion (FBC) is a combustion technology used to burn solid fuels. In its most basic form, fuel particles are suspended in a hot, bubbling

of combustion, the adiabatic flame temperature is the temperature reached by a flame under ideal conditions. It is an upper bound of the temperature that

such as a flame or spark. This temperature is required to supply the activation energy needed for combustion. The temperature at which a chemical ignites

Internal combustion engines come in a wide variety of types, but have certain family resemblances, and thus share many common types of components. Internal

spark-ignition internal combustion engines, knocking (also knock, detonation, spark knock, pinging or pinking) occurs when combustion of some of the air/fuel

Spontaneous combustion or spontaneous ignition is a type of combustion which occurs by self-heating (increase in temperature due to exothermic internal

much like other high temperature combustion fuels, such as kerosene, gasoline, diesel, and natural gas. Therefore, hydrogen combustion engines are not considered