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Miniature two-stroke "diesel engine". Note the T-bar on top for adjusting the compression. A carbureted compression ignition model engine, popularly known as a model diesel engine, is a simple compression ignition engine made for model propulsion, usually model aircraft but also model boats.
Diesel engines are an alternative to methanol glow plug engines. These "diesels" run on a mixture of kerosene , ether , castor oil or vegetable oil , and cetane or amyl nitrate booster. Despite their name, their use of compression ignition , and the use of a kerosene fuel that is similar to diesel , model diesels share very little with full ...
However, the engines had a significant shortcoming: they were based on the same block design as the gasoline engines. As such, the head bolts were not strong enough for a diesel engine, and soon gained a reputation for unreliability and poor performance that damaged the North American passenger car diesel market for the next 30 years.
Making a Wankel engine that can burn Diesel engine fuel, but which does not use the Diesel principle, can be useful if Diesel engine fuel is less expensive than petrol. [5] In a 1974 study conducted for the EPA, it was attempted to determine whether or not a Wankel Diesel engine has a better exhaust behaviour than a regular Otto cycle petrol ...
Briggs & Stratton Vanguard V-twin engine in a portable generator. A small engine is the general term for a wide range of small-displacement, low-powered internal combustion engines used to power lawn mowers, generators, concrete mixers and many other machines that require independent power sources. [1]
Dieselisation (US: dieselization) is the process of equipping vehicles with a diesel engine or diesel engines. [ 1 ] It can involve replacing an internal combustion engine powered by petrol (US: gasoline) fuel with an engine powered by diesel fuel , as occurred on a large scale with trucks, buses, farm tractors, trains, and building ...
ALCO 18-251 V18 engine used as a backup generator at a wastewater plant in Montreal. The inline-6 designs of 800 hp (597 kW) version of the 251 engine replaced the 539 engine in 1954 in Alco's low-end line of power generation packages. The 244 engine was still used in higher-end power generation packages until it too was replaced by 251-engined ...
Diesel engine runaway is an occurrence in diesel engines, in which the engine draws extra fuel from an unintended source and overspeeds at higher and higher RPM, producing up to ten times the engine's rated output until destroyed by mechanical failure or bearing seizure due to a lack of lubrication. [1]