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Turbo Charger!
The turbocharger is a compressor or pump which recovers energy from one moving fluid stream and uses it to add energy to another moving fluid stream. It is typically used to recover either kinetic or heat energy in industrial processes.
However the most commonly recognized use is to recover heat from the exhaust gasses produced by the internal-combustion engine. Normally these gasses are expelled as waste heat but the turbocharger uses this heat energy to compress air which is routed into the engine's intake. This process increases engine power output by increasing the amount of available oxygen for use in the combustion process.
Like superchargers, turbochargers increase engine power with little increase in weight, but typically require less fuel than superchargers because they recycle wasted heat energy which normally is wasted.
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