Sentence examples for lifting gas from inspiring English sources

A blimp, in contrast, is a big, inflatable balloonlike sack filled with a lifting gas.

In 1872 a German engineer, Paul Haenlein, first used an internal-combustion engine for flight in an airship that used lifting gas from the bag as fuel.

Although helium is not quite as buoyant as hydrogen, its incombustibility makes it a safer lifting gas for lighter-than-air craft.

Some were blimps, their shape maintained entirely by the pressure of the lifting gas within; others had rigid or semi-rigid hulls.

The explosion of the Hindenburg showed the dangers of hydrogen as a lifting gas and resulted in new emphasis on helium, which is not flammable, rather than ending the reign of rigid airships.

A blimp is just one type of airship, usually a small one, and always nonrigid, meaning that it has no structural hull; its shape is maintained by the pressure of the lifting gas within.

Since the moratorium was lifted, gas prices have risen, reducing the threat to coal, but the 25% fall in coal prices over the past ten years has turned UK Coal's profits into losses.

In most of the gas lifted oil fields, multiple oil wells share lift gas from a common gas distribution source.

The lift gas should be distributed optimally among the wells to maximize total oil production.

Major tasks include calculations of well deliverability, pressure and horsepower requirements for gas lift gas compression, gas lift valve selection and spacing, and selection of installation methods.

An increase in the lift gas consumption is required to compensate for the production losses caused by heading.