gas generator

English

Noun

gas generator (plural gas generators)

1. (aerospace) 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