Have we ever thought about how the fuel is converted into power?,
Actually the engine does not necessarily convert fuel or chemical energy into energy or kinetic energy directly, but the engine converts chemical energy in the fuel into heat energy through combustion first and then converted into kinetic energy or motion. Generally, the engine in today's vehicles uses an internal combustion engine or internal combustion engine.
Before getting to know more about internal combustion engines, let's first learn about combustion engines.
Fuel Motor
Motor combustion is a mechanism / construction that converts heat energy from combustion into motion (kinetic) energy. Broadly speaking, the combustion engine is divided into 2, namely internal combustion engines and external combustion engines.
The types of internal combustion engines or internal combustion engines are:
Piston engine (2 & 4 stroke)
Wankle machine or rotary machine
Jet engines, etc
The types of external combustion engines or external combustion engines are:
Steam engine
Nuclear
Steam turbine engine, etc
Example of an external combustion engine (steam engine)
Steam engines have a combustion system that occurs outside the engine mechanism.
Example of an internal combustion engine (piston engine)
Piston engines have a combustion system that occurs inside the engine.
Now back to the initial discussion, namely how the engine can generate power.
In the piston engine works by utilizing combustion gases to push the piston, the mechanism on the piston engine can move back and forth. The piston moves up and down due to an explosion in the cylinder. Because the combustion process converts fuel into gas quickly and combustion occurs in a narrow space, an explosion occurs and the explosion can move the piston.
The working concept is that there is an explosion in the cylinder or combustion chamber, then the piston is pushed by the explosion so that the piston can move, the piston movement is connected to the crankshaft component which will make translational movement or up and down movement into rotary motion or rotary motion. Now this engine rotation will be used to drive the drive system on a vehicle such as a motorcycle or car.
From a brief discussion, hopefully we can understand the basic concepts of working a combustion engine.
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