DIESEL ENGINE

Diesel Engine

Diesel Engine

Diesel Engines

A parallel evolution of car engines began in the late 19th century, when German-French engineering student Rudolf Diesel (1858-1913) studied combustion engines and how fuel-inefficient they were. He determined to create an engine that used more fuel for energy instead of wasting it as excess heat. He called his new engine the “combustion power engine” (today called a Diesel engine) and submitted his first patent in 1892. (Hege, 2006)

Engine operations and Components

This new engine works quite similarly to the way a typical internal combustion engine works, with the same four strokes. The difference is that in ...