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The internal combustion engine uses combustion of a fuel, usually fossil fuel, and an oxidizer, usually air, in a combustion chamber to create high-temperature and pressure gases. These gases apply direct force to engine components like pistons or turbine blades, generating useful mechanical energy. There are two main types - intermittent combustion engines like 4-stroke engines and continuous combustion engines like gas turbines. The internal combustion engine delivers excellent power-to-weight ratio for mobile applications, dominating power for vehicles like cars, aircraft and boats.

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The internal combustion engine uses combustion of a fuel, usually fossil fuel, and an oxidizer, usually air, in a combustion chamber to create high-temperature and pressure gases. These gases apply direct force to engine components like pistons or turbine blades, generating useful mechanical energy. There are two main types - intermittent combustion engines like 4-stroke engines and continuous combustion engines like gas turbines. The internal combustion engine delivers excellent power-to-weight ratio for mobile applications, dominating power for vehicles like cars, aircraft and boats.

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The Internal Combustion Engine

A report by Jonathan Smith

Overview

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The internal combustion engine is an engine in which the combustion of a fuel (normally a fossil fuel) occurs with an
oxidizer (usually air) in a combustion chamber. In an internal combustion engine the expansion of the high-temperature
and -pressure gases produced by combustion applies direct force to some component of the engine, such as pistons,
turbine blades, or a nozzle. This force moves the component over a distance, generating useful mechanical energy.

The term internal combustion engine usually refers to an engine in which combustion is intermittent, such as the more
familiar four-stroke and two-stroke piston engines, along with variants, such as the Wankel rotary engine. A second class
of internal combustion engines use continuous combustion: gas turbines, jet engines and most rocket engines, each of
which are internal combustion engines on the same principle as previously described.

Comparison
The internal combustion engine (or ICE) is quite different from external combustion engines, such as steam or Stirling
engines, in which the energy is delivered to a working fluid not consisting of, mixed with, or contaminated by
combustion products. Working fluids can be air, hot water, pressurized water or even liquid sodium, heated in some
kind of boiler.

A large number of different designs for ICEs have been developed and built, with a variety of different strengths and
weaknesses. Powered by an energy-dense fuel (which is very frequently petrol, a liquid derived from fossil fuels), the ICE
delivers an excellent power-to-weight ratio with few disadvantages. While there have been and still are many stationary
applications, the real strength of internal combustion engines is in mobile applications and they dominate as a power
supply for cars, aircraft, and boats, from the smallest to the largest. Only for hand-held power tools do they share part of
the market with battery powered devices.

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