Aspiration
The Roots blower is commonly used on the two stroke diesel engine, which requires some form of forced induction. In this application, the blower does not provide significant boost and these engines are considered naturally aspirated with the blower providing just slightly more than positive pressure as the device is acting as a positive displacement pump; turbochargers are generally used when significant boost is needed. In small engines, a conventional turbo will be followed by the blower. In large engines, particularly in railroad, marine or stationary services, the turbo is a combination turbo-compressor, with the compressor being driven by the crankshaft through an overrunning clutch during starting and at low rpms, and by the turbine with the clutch being disconnected when the exhaust gasses have reached sufficient temperature.
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Famous quotes containing the word aspiration:
“When a man’s life is destroyed or damaged by some wound or privation of soul or body, which is due to other men’s actions or negligence, it is not only his sensibility that suffers but also his aspiration toward the good. Therefore there has been sacrilege towards that which is sacred in him.”
—Simone Weil (1909–1943)
“It may be well to remember that the highest level of moral aspiration recorded in history was reached by a few ancient Jews—Micah, Isaiah, and the rest—who took no count whatever of what might not happen to them after death. It is not obvious to me why the same point should not by and by be reached by the Gentiles.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)
“For you, o broker, there is no other principle but arithmetic. For me, commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred; nor can I detach one duty, like you, from all other duties, and concentrate my forces mechanically on the payment of moneys.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)