Water injection
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The term water injection may refer to:
- Water injection (engines)Water injection (engines)In internal combustion engines, water injection, also known as anti-detonant injection, is spraying water into the cylinder or incoming fuel-air mixture to cool the combustion chambers of the engine, allowing for greater compression ratios and largely eliminating the problem of engine knocking...
, for increasing efficiency or power of internal combustion engines - Water injection (oil production)Water injection (oil production)Water injection refers to the method in oil industry where water is injected back into the reservoir, usually to increase pressure and thereby stimulate production. Water injection wells can be found both on- and offshore, to increase oil recovery from an existing reservoir...
, for increasing the amount of petroleum extracted from oil wells - Water injection well, a type of groundwater well through which water is injected into an aquifer system