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The Diesel cycle is a combustion process of a reciprocating internal combustion engine. In it, fuel is ignited by heat generated during the compression of air in the combustion chamber, into which fuel is then injected. This is in contrast to igniting the fuel-air mixture with a spark plug as in the Otto cycle (four-stroke/petrol) engine. Diesel engines are used in aircraft, automobiles, power generation, diesel–electric locomotives, and both surface ships and submarines.
The Diesel cycle is assumed to have constant pressure during the initial part of the combustion phase ( to in the diagram, below). This is an idealized mathematical model: real physical diesels do have an increase in pressure during this period, but it is less pronounced than in the Otto cycle. In contrast, the idealized Otto cycle of a gasoline engine approximates a constant volume process during that phase.
The Dieselcycle is a combustion process of a reciprocating internal combustion engine. In it, fuel is ignited by heat generated during the compression...
The Brayton cycle, also known as the Joule cycle, is a thermodynamic cycle that describes the operation of certain heat engines that have air or some other...
engine, in which a three-wheeled, four-cycle engine and chassis formed a single unit. In 1892, Rudolf Diesel developed the first compressed charge, compression...
levels, diesel arrays are sometimes preferred to open cycle gas turbines, due to their superior efficiencies. The packaged combination of a diesel engine...
combustion engines are the Otto cycle, which models gasoline engines, and the Dieselcycle, which models diesel engines. Cycles that model external combustion...
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(gasoline, diesel and gas turbine-Brayton cycle engines) and External combustion engines (steam piston, steam turbine, and the Stirling cycle engine). Each...
to 11, resulting in ideal cycle efficiencies of 56% to 61%. Dieselcycle: trucks and trains In the Dieselcycle used in diesel truck and train engines,...
Detroit Diesel-Allison produced its first four-cycle engine. A few years later in the early 1980s diesel engine production split off as Detroit Diesel Division...
be run on diesel fuel, gases, or dual fuel. It uses a supercharger or a turbocharger to offset the performance loss of the Atkinson cycle. This type...
naturally aspirated engine, air for combustion (Dieselcycle in a diesel engine or specific types of Otto cycle in petrol engines, namely petrol direct injection)...
Stirling with help from his brother, an engineer. The ideal Otto and Dieselcycles are not totally reversible because they involve heat transfer through...
running on a cycle very much like the earlier Dieselcycle. In addition, externally heated engines can often be implemented in open or closed cycles. In a closed...
to lower thermal efficiency than the more well known Otto cycle and Dieselcycle. In the cycle, an ideal gas undergoes 1–2: Constant volume (isochoric)...
The Detroit Diesel Series 92 is a two-stroke cycle, V-block diesel engine, produced with versions ranging from six to 16 cylinders. Among these, the most...
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Linde, Diesel worked on designing an internal combustion engine that could approach the maximum theoretical thermal efficiency of the Carnot cycle. In 1892...
A diesel particulate filter (DPF) is a device designed to remove diesel particulate matter or soot from the exhaust gas of a diesel engine. Wall-flow...
The Thielert Centurion is a series of dieselcycle aircraft engines for general aviation originally built by Thielert, which was bought by Aviation Industry...
constant pressure, and heating the regenerator for the next cycle. The ideal Otto and Dieselcycles are not totally reversible because they involve heat transfer...
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