Matching Pairs Fuel Oil System Vocabulary 1Online version This is the first set of vocabulary to help you learn the words in the fuel oil system. by Thomas Muravez 1 jerk pump system 2 turbulence 3 common rail system 4 atomisation 5 viscosity 6 fuel injection 7 dribble 8 rack and pinion 9 fuel consumption 10 penetration 11 combustion 12 choking a chemical reaction that occurs when oxygen combines with other substances to produce heat and usually light movement of the compressed air and fuel within a combustion space before combustion occurs the distance the oil droplets travel into combustion space before mixing with air and igniting fuel thickness, fuel's resistance to flow system which provides the right amount of fuel at the right moment for a suitable condition for the combustion process fuel is metered and raised in pressure by a separate fuel pump for each cylinder, each pump is timed to force the fuel through the injector into the cylinder at the appropriate moment to flow or allow to flow in a thin stream or drops; trickle when an injector get clogged due to dirt or impurities in the fuel splitting up of fuel into very small droplets a single pump supplies fuel at high pressure to a common manifold feeding the cylinders The amount of fuel a vehicle uses to travel a particular distance at a particular speed rotates the plunger in the barrel of a fuel pump to vary the effective length of the stroke and thereby the amount of fuel delivered