supercharger
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Encyclopedic overview
20 sectionsContents
- Design
- Types
- Positive displacement
- Dynamic
- Drive system
- Electric superchargers
- Effects of fuel octane rating
- Heating of intake air
- Comparison with turbocharging
- Comparison for aircraft engines
- Twincharging
- History
- Usage in cars
- Usage in aircraft
- Usage in aircraft engines
- Altitude effects
- Intake freezing
- See also
- References
- External links
thumb|right|upright=1.2|A supercharger (item 6) on a piston engine thumb|right|upright=1.2|Roots-type Eaton Corporation|Eaton M62 supercharger (right) on a 2006 Saturn (GM) Ion Redline Ecotec LSJ [[4-cylinder engine]]
In an internal combustion engine, a supercharger is a device which compresses the intake gas, forcing more air into the engine in order to produce more power for a given displacement. It is a form of forced induction that is mechanically powered (usually by a belt from the engine's crankshaft), as opposed to a turbocharger, which is powered by the kinetic energy of the exhaust gases. However, up until the mid-20th century, a turbocharger was called a "turbosupercharger" and was considered a type of supercharger.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “supercharger” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.