Index
Note: Page numbers followed by “f” and “t” indicate figures and tables respectively.
A
Absolute temperature scale, 15
Acetylene, 211
Acid rain, 318–319
Acres, 522
Activation
energy, 311–312, 312f, 502–503
losses, 518–519
Activity coefficient, 510
Actual refrigerator, 52–54
Adiabatic
combustion, 213, 219–220, 220f, 223,
235, 298
compressibility, 156
Adsorption, gas molecules, 326
Aero-engines, 401
Air, 178
composition, 178
Air-fuel ratio, 334f, 369–371
effect on engine combustion, 369–371
lean (weak), 212
rich, 212
stoichiometric, 212, 239, 298
Air-standard cycles, 43–51, 46f, 345
Diesel cycle, 47–48
dual-combustion cycle, 49
internal combustion engine cycle, 49–51
Joule cycle, 51
Otto cycle, 44–47
Aircraft gas turbines, 395, 401. See also Gas turbines
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