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In , deeply troubled by criticisms of his role in developing the engine, he mysteriously vanished from a ship on a voyage to England, presumably committing suicide []. Abstract : In the s, Rudolf Diesel invented an efficient, compression ignition, internal combustion engine that bears his name. Early diesel engines were large and operated at low speeds due to the limitations of their compressed air-assisted fuel injection systems.
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At the tender age of 14 the son of a bookbinder decided on a career as engineer. After attending trade school and industrial school he went to Munich Technical University Polytechnic Institute and concluded his studies in with the best grade ever given for an examination since the university was founded.
During his education in the engineering sciences the design engineer-to-be was particularly impressed by the thermodynamics lectures of Carl von Linde. The contact with Linde had consequences: after completing his studies, Diesel went to work in the Linde refrigerating machine factory. Before the year was over, Diesel received a first patent for the manufacture of transparent ice.
During the following years, Rudolf Diesel increasingly focused on the work on his engine. In November Diesel modified and improved his first design and took out a second patent DRP 82 But it would take four years from the beginning of work to design a successful prototype of an engine fit for series production. The Augsburg diesel engine factory was built in to produce the new power plant. Subsequent to this mixture formation, which takes place entirely inside the cylinder, the fuel ignites spontaneously due to the heat produced by compression.
But considering that temperatures between and degrees Celsius were obtained by the compression of air in the cylinder, this fully sufficed to operate the new-type engine: with its very good ignition qualities, the diesel oil needed no additional starting aid to burn at these temperatures shortly after being injected.
Before Rudolf Diesel finally decided on a middle distillate of petroleum as fuel, he experimented with various other substances, among other things with coal dust. However, the first prototypes then ran on kerosene, which is similar to diesel oil in many respects. Compared with the petrol engine, the diesel engine has very good efficiency especially at partial load. But the early engines did not prove durable enough yet in fact, and many customers returned their damaged engines.
Particularly, the air compressor and the strainer-type atomiser used for fuel injection were susceptible to mechanical trouble. The inventor reacted by developing a new atomiser and improving the compression of the injection air by effecting compression in two steps.
The supply of fuel to the engine still called for a complicated process: a low-pressure pump delivered the fuel to the atomiser; from here, strongly compressed air blew the diesel oil into the cylinder as a fine fuel mist.
This technology made the engines heavy and complex. Neither higher engine speeds, nor rapid reaction to changing loads were possible with this system.
Among other things, at the beginning of his work the engineer thought the spontaneous inflammation of the fuel was not vital, and he experimented also with sparkplugs.
But the very first prototype of showed that the basic principle of this internal combustion engine had a great future. All modern-day vehicular diesel engines follow the basic principle of these engines. Solutions like common rail injection with injection pressures of up to bar, exhaust-gas turbocharging and ultramodern emission control systems and the combination of internal combustion engine with electric drive in the hybrid vehicle have made the diesel a powerful, economical, clean vehicle drive which still holds great potential for the future.
Once Diesel had refined his concept to the point where it could be marketed, Augsburg Machine Works discontinued the production of steam engines in the course of the next few years and concentrated entirely on the manufacture of diesel engines. This step was quite in keeping with the market trend: the diesel engine, powerful competition for the steam engine, increasingly prevailed and superseded the steam engine.
Between and alone, more than units with outputs from 15 kW to 74 kW 20 - hp were produced. But as a propulsion unit for transport purposes, prior to the First World War the new engine only saw use in ships, beginning in Rudolf Diesel did not live to see the success of his engine as a propulsion unit for road and rail vehicles.
It is considered probable that the engineer committed suicide. In September Benz then introduced a two-stroke diesel drive for marine use. The Fram , an expedition and research vessel, was one of the ships equipped with the Benz two-stroke engine. The Fram was built back in for the Norwegian polar explorer Fridtjof Nansen.
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