Common Rail Diesel Engine
The History and Development of the Common Rail Diesel Engine
To be honest, I don’t really know too much about the history or the functions and operations of a diesel engine, but I am excited about learning more about it through this assignment and when we go to study it in detail during class.
History
The evolution of Diesel injections actually began from the invention of the gasoline engine. The gasoline engine wasn’t very efficient, even worse than the steam engine. Only around 10% of fuel used in these types of engines actually moved the vehicles, the rest was simply wasted on producing useless heat. A man by the name of Rudolf Diesel was learning about this low efficient engines in Polytechnic High School of Germany and this inspired him to create his own more efficient engine.
Rudolf Diesel was a German inventor and mechanical engineer, renowned for the invention of the diesel engine. He was born in Paris in 1958. In 1983, he published a paper describing an engine with combustion within a cylinder, the internal combustion engine. Rudolf Diesel was almost killed by his engine, when it exploded. However, his engine was the first that proved that fuel could be ignited without a spark. He operated his first working engine n 1897. In 1898, Rudolf Diesel was granted a patent for an “internal combustion engine”, the diesel engine. Diesel engines were being used to power automobiles, trucks, marine craft, factories and many more other things. By 1989, Rudolf Diesel was a millionaire. It is said that Rudolf took his own life on the 29th of September 1913, at the age of 55 years old.
Sir Harry Ricardo was one of the most important engine designers in the early years of the development of the internal combustion engine. He was an English man who was born in London on the 26th of January 1885. He studied at Trinity College and Cambridge. Ricardo invented the diesel pre-combustion chamber that made high-speed
To be honest, I don’t really know too much about the history or the functions and operations of a diesel engine, but I am excited about learning more about it through this assignment and when we go to study it in detail during class.
History
The evolution of Diesel injections actually began from the invention of the gasoline engine. The gasoline engine wasn’t very efficient, even worse than the steam engine. Only around 10% of fuel used in these types of engines actually moved the vehicles, the rest was simply wasted on producing useless heat. A man by the name of Rudolf Diesel was learning about this low efficient engines in Polytechnic High School of Germany and this inspired him to create his own more efficient engine.
Rudolf Diesel was a German inventor and mechanical engineer, renowned for the invention of the diesel engine. He was born in Paris in 1958. In 1983, he published a paper describing an engine with combustion within a cylinder, the internal combustion engine. Rudolf Diesel was almost killed by his engine, when it exploded. However, his engine was the first that proved that fuel could be ignited without a spark. He operated his first working engine n 1897. In 1898, Rudolf Diesel was granted a patent for an “internal combustion engine”, the diesel engine. Diesel engines were being used to power automobiles, trucks, marine craft, factories and many more other things. By 1989, Rudolf Diesel was a millionaire. It is said that Rudolf took his own life on the 29th of September 1913, at the age of 55 years old.
Sir Harry Ricardo was one of the most important engine designers in the early years of the development of the internal combustion engine. He was an English man who was born in London on the 26th of January 1885. He studied at Trinity College and Cambridge. Ricardo invented the diesel pre-combustion chamber that made high-speed
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