gas generator

English

Noun

gas generator (plural gas generators)

  1. (aeronautics, space) A mechanical device that uses a chemical reaction to produce a gas as an output.
  2. (engineering, US) An electrical generator that runs on gasoline.

Quotations
  • "In the gas generator cycle the turbine inlet gas comes from a separate gas generator" - Rocket propulsion elements

References
  • isbn 1 -56347 -013 6 Design of Liquid-Propellant Rocket engines by Huzel and Huang: figure 4-63 schematic labelled as a gas generator for decomposing hydrogen peroxide to oxygen/steam
  • isbn 0 -471 -32642 -9 Rocket propulsion elements 7th edition Sutton Biblarz
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