English

Noun

gas generator ‎(plural gas generators)

1. (aeronautics, space) 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