*** internal combustion ( gasoline, diesel, heavy fuel oil )

A diesel engine ( also known as a compression-ignition engine ) is an internal combustion engine that uses the heat of compression to initiate ignition to burn the fuel, which is injected into the combustion chamber.

The diesel engine has the highest thermal efficiency of any regular internal or external combustion engine due to its very high compression ratio.

The largest internal combustion engine ever built is the Wärtsilä-Sulzer RTA96-C, a 14-cylinder, 2-stroke turbocharged diesel engine that was designed to power the Emma Maersk, the largest container ship in the world.

While gasoline internal combustion engines are much easier to start in cold weather than diesel engines, they can still have cold weather starting problems under extreme conditions.

As is the case with any vehicle powered by an internal combustion engine, diesel locomotives require some type of power transmission system to couple the output of the prime mover to the driving wheels.

Today the most common form of reciprocating engine is the internal combustion engine running on the combustion of petrol, diesel, Liquefied petroleum gas ( LPG ) or compressed natural gas ( CNG ) and used to power motor vehicles.

Smoke is also a component of internal combustion engine exhaust gas, particularly diesel exhaust.

Motor yachts typically have one or two internal combustion engines that burn diesel fuel or gasoline.

Ferroelectric capacitors are used in medical ultrasound machines ( the capacitors generate and then listen for the ultrasound ping used to image the internal organs of a body ), high quality infrared cameras ( the infrared image is projected onto a two dimensional array of ferroelectric capacitors capable of detecting temperature differences as small as millionths of a degree Celsius ), fire sensors, sonar, vibration sensors, and even fuel injectors on diesel engines.

The invention of the internal combustion engine and its use in automobiles and trucks greatly increased the demand for gasoline and diesel oil, both made from fossil fuels.

The Prologue puts the internal combustion engine up front and runs on diesel instead of gasoline with the electric motor going at the back.

In all, 83 Lombard steam log haulers are known to have been built up to 1917, when production switched entirely to internal combustion engine powered machines, ending with a Fairbanks diesel powered unit in 1934.

In internal combustion engines, exhaust gas recirculation ( EGR ) is a nitrogen oxide ( NOx ) emissions reduction technique used in petrol / gasoline and diesel engines.

After " scrubbing ", to remove tar, the gas may be used to power gas turbines ( which are well-suited to fuels of low calorific value ), spark ignited engines ( where 100 % petrol fuel replacement is possible ) or diesel internal combustion engines ( where 40 %-15 % of the original diesel fuel is still used to ignite the gas ).

It used a 2. 0 litre, 43 kW diesel internal combustion engine converted to use hydrogen as a fuel with the use of a compressor and direct injection.

Despite the widespread use of petroleum-derived diesel fuels, interest in vegetable oils as fuels for internal combustion engines was reported in several countries during the 1920s and 1930s and later during World War II.

The technological history of watercraft in the European history can be divided into marine propulsion using the simple paddle craft, oared galleys from the 8th century BCE until 15th century, lateen sail during the Age of Discovery from the early 15th century and into the early 17th century, full rigged ships of the Age of Sail from the 16th to the mid 19th century, the Age of Steam marine steam engine roughly between 1770 and use of the steam turbine until 1914, the internal combustion engines using diesel, petrol and LNG as fuels from the turn of the 20th century, which has been supplemented to some degree with the nuclear marine propulsion since the 1950s.

The invention of the diesel engine in 1892 eventually led to the conversion of fuels for transportation from coal and steam to diesel and the internal combustion engine ; this would be greatly enhanced by WWI military uses and the beginning of a new age of fuel usage and consumption.

All early locomotives were powered by gasoline-burning internal combustion engines, but in 1927 the first diesel was produced.

The company built small steam locomotives early on ; the first gasoline-fueled internal combustion engined locomotive was built in 1924 and the first diesel locomotive in 1927, a 30-ton diesel-electric for the Northern Illinois Coal Company of Boonville, Indiana.

Among his many other works, he improved the engines that were used in the first tanks, oversaw the research into the physics of internal combustion that led to the use of octane ratings, was instrumental in development of the sleeve valve engine design, and invented the Diesel precombustion chamber that made high-speed diesel engines possible.

For most fuels, such as diesel oil, coal or wood, pyrolysis occurs before combustion.

In the diesel cycle the combustion occurs at almost constant pressure and the exhaust occurs at constant volume.

In the true diesel engine, only air is initially introduced into the combustion chamber.

Light duty diesel engines with indirect injection in automobiles and light trucks employ glowplugs that pre-heat the combustion chamber just before starting to reduce no-start conditions in cold weather.

In the diesel cycle, diesel fuel is injected directly into the cylinder so that combustion occurs at constant pressure, as the piston moves.

Heat of combustion of kerosene is similar to that of diesel ; its lower heating value is 43. 1 MJ / kg ( around 18, 500 Btu / lb ), and its higher heating value is 46. 2 MJ / kg.

Unfortunately, the massive increase in cargo volume has created significant air pollution ( especially of particulate matter resulting from the combustion of low-grade marine diesel fuel ) in neighboring communities.

* Cetane rating, a measure of diesel fuel's combustion quality

* Atlas-Imperial, a historic American diesel engine builder

A diesel engine operates under even more extreme conditions, with compression ratios of 20: 1 or more being typical, in order to provide a very high gas temperature which ensures immediate ignition of injected fuel.

* Anglo Belgian Corporation, diesel engine manufacturer

Refrigerators and air conditioners operating from the waste heat of a diesel engine exhaust, heater flue or solar collector are entering use.

The most common power source since the 1920s has been the diesel engine.

Microparticles of carbon are produced in diesel engine exhaust fumes, and may accumulate in the lungs.

J. Irwin Miller, 2nd CEO and a nephew of a Co-Founder of Cummins Inc., the Columbus-headquartered diesel engine manufacturer, instituted a program in which the Cummins company paid the architects ' fee, provided the client selected a firm from a list compiled by Miller.

Direct fuel injection which can inject fuel only at the time of fuel ignition ( similar to a diesel engine ) is another recent development which also allows for higher compression ratios on gasoline engines.

In an auto-ignition diesel engine, there is no electrical sparking plug ; the heat of compression raises the temperature of the mixture to its auto-ignition point.

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When the bridge was in use, boaters would signal the operator, who would start a diesel engine and rotate the bridge to the open position on a large gear.

Low-speed diesel engines ( as used in ships and other applications where overall engine weight is relatively unimportant ) can have a thermal efficiency that exceeds 50 percent.

The world's largest diesel engine is currently a Wärtsilä-Sulzer RTA96-C Common Rail marine diesel of about @ 102 rpm output.

Rudolf Diesel originally conceived the diesel engine to enable independent craftsmen and artisans to compete with industry.

* 1902: Until 1910 MAN produced 82 copies of the stationary diesel engine.

* 1905: Four diesel engine turbochargers and intercoolers were manufactured by Büchl ( CH ), as well as a scroll-type supercharger from Creux ( F ) company.

* 1910: The Norwegian research ship Fram was a sailing ship fitted with an auxiliary diesel engine, and was thus the first ocean-going ship with a diesel engine.