Internal combustion engine power generation

Internal-combustion engines that generate power by burning a gasoline with ignition initiated by an electric spark. 

Gas has been recovered since early 1978. Current plans are to construct 10 MW power station and fire gas in internal combustion engines to generate electricity for City of Azusa. 

Access to power is one of the foundations of modem society. The current paradigm in which we operate provides electricity via a centralised model. Power is produced from a variety of fuel sources such as coal, nuclear and renewables and also uses fossil fuels, such as petroleum, in various conversion technologies such as the internal combustion engine and generators. Both of these energy strands are now embedded into everyday life in developed and increasingly in developing countries. 

Fuel cells, which rely on electrochemical generation of electric power, could be used for nonpolluting sources of power for motor vehicles. Since fuel cells are not heat engines, they offer the potential for extremely low emissions with a higher thermal effidency than internal combustion engines. Their lack of adoption by mobile systems has been due to their cost, large size, weight, lack of operational flexibility, and poor transient response. It has been stated that these problems could keep fuel cells from the mass-produced automobile market until after the year 2010 (5). 

When the automobile became preeminent in the early twentieth century, it did so with good reason. Wliether the energy to power a bicycle is anaerobic or aerobic in nature, it is still minuscule in comparison to what an automobile s internal combustion engine can deliver. In the United States, almost all subcompact cars are equipped with engines that can generate 100 or more horsepower (74,600 watts), and can sustain this output all day long. 

The introduction of the internal combustion engine in the late nineteenth century opened up an entirely new approach to combined heat and power. Rather than using the same fluid for the heat and power process as was the case with hot air and steam processes, the tremendous waste heat generated by the internal combustion process can easily be transformed into useful heat. Cogeneration applications using stationary engines were common in Europe prior to World War I and remain quite popular because the heat is relatively... 

The nitrogen oxides are common pollutants generated by internal combustion engines and power plants. They not only contribute to the respiratory distress caused by smog, but if they reach the stratosphere can also threaten the ozone layer that protects Earth from harmful radiation. 

Some of these began their work with electric cars. In Germany Ferdinand Porsche, built his first car, the Lohner Electric Chaise, in 1898 at the age of 23. The Lohner-Porsche was a first front-wheel drive car with four-wheel brakes and an automatic transmission. It used one electric motor in each of the four wheel hubs similar to today s hybrid cars, which have both gas and electric power. Porsche s second car was a hybrid, with an internal-combustion engine driving a generator to power the electric motors in the wheel hubs. On battery power alone, the car could travel 38 miles. 

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