Rudolf diesel

Rudolf Diesel was vain, oversensitive, and paranoid. His stubborn and persistent disposition clouded his ability to make friends, while his sanctimonious bluster alienated those even in his own field. He was revolutionary, a Renaissance man in a Victorian era, a mechanical Michelangelo, painting with grease and gears, pressure and heat. He enjoyed opera, played classical piano, spoke three languages fluently, only wore tailored suits, and took long walks daily. Diesel was as comfortable discussing poetry, language, and art as he was the properties of thermodynamics, the efficiency of steam, and—most importantly—engines. By 1913, thousands of engines bearing his name were puffing away noisily in factories around the world, but all was not well. On September 29, 1913, during a particularly cold crossing from Antwerp to England, Diesel stepped over the stern railing of the steamship Dresden—and jumped. Diesel’s body was found floating near Norway 10 days later. Conspiracy theories flourished. Diesel’s early life was hallmarked by success in school and the bourgeoning engineering field at the midst of the industrial revolution. Diesel’s Early Life Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel was the second of three children, born on March 18, 1858, to Elise and Theodor Diesel, Bavarian transplants living in Paris. When the Franco-Prussian war broke out in 1870, Diesel’s family was forced to leave France. They settled in London, but Diesel was sent to his father’s hometown of Augsburg (about 4...

• • Production 30 April 1896 – 6 October 1896 Layout Single-cylinder A-type, crosshead piston 19,635cm 3 (1,198.2in 3) 250mm (9.84in) 400mm (15.75in) Grey cast iron Combustion Diesel Piston-type supercharger + intercooler (until 28 January 1897) None (from 28 January 1897) Fuel type Kerosine Petrol Ligroin Coal-tar creosote oil Paraffin oil Gas oil Fuel oil Solar oil Naphtha Benzene Shale oil Peanut oil Mains gas Manual Water-cooled Output 13.1kW (17.8PS) at 154/min 812N⋅m (82.8kp⋅m) at 154/min Dimensions Diameter 3,000mm (120in) (flywheel) Chronology Predecessor Motor 220/400 The Motor 250/400 is the first functional A-Motor, and the B-Motor. The latter has been on static display at the Motor 250/400 were made. Most of these copies were very unreliable, which almost caused the diesel engine's demise. History [ ] Development [ ] In early 1893, Motor 150/400, was completed on 12 July 1893. Motor 220/400, it had become clear that, a completely new engine had to be designed from scratch. In order to improve the efficiency of the development process, a new design bureau was built directly into Diesel's Augsburg testing laboratory. Several young engineers worked there, including Building and post-design phase [ ] The cylinder casting worked without any problems, and the first cylinder cast was used. Motor 250/400; the final modifications to the engine were made in early January 1897. Post-completion phase [ ] On 17 February 1897, that we are beholding a quite marketable machine...

Rudolf Diesel Rudolf Diesel invented the diesel engine in the 1890s. From the beginning, this engine could run on a variety of fuels, including vegetable oil. In 1900, one of the new diesel engines featured at the Paris Exposition was powered by peanut oil. However, because cheap petroleum fuels were easily available, few people were interested in alternatives (Pahl, 2005, pp. 18-22). As early as the 1930s, there was interest in splitting the fatty acids from the glycerin in vegetable oil in order to create a thinner product similar to petroleum diesel. In 1937, G. Chavanne was granted a Belgian patent for an ethyl ester of palm oil (which today we would call biodiesel). In 1938, a passenger bus fueled with palm oil ethyl ester plied the route between Brussels and Louvain (Knothe, 2005, p. 10). During World War II (1939 to 1945), when petroleum fuel supplies were interrupted, vegetable oil was used as fuel by several countries, including Brazil, Argentina, China, India, and Japan. However, when the war ended and petroleum supplies were again cheap and plentiful, vegetable oil fuel was forgotten. Modern Interest in Biodiesel In the 1970s, the petroleum oil embargo caused many countries to look to vegetable oil as a possible fuel. Scientists in Austria, the United States, South Africa, and many other countries rediscovered that straight vegetable oil could be used to run diesel engines; however, eventually the poor quality of the fuel spray caused by the thickness (viscosity...

Let's get one thing straight: Rudolf Diesel is not Vin Diesel's great-grandfather. Vin's real name is Mark Sinclair, but that sounds a bit too boy-next-door for a tough-guy actor. What better way to create an aura than to use the name of tough-guy fuel? Diesel powers much of our economy in the form of big work trucks, agricultural vehicles, locomotives, bulldozers, marine engines, and the like, but the man who invented the compression ignition engine probably wasn't a tough guy either. He was, however, an incredible engineer, one of those really smart types who would no doubt have thrived in any period of human history. He was born in Paris in 1858 to German parents, but he moved to the Fatherland when he was 12, where he won a scholarship at 14 to study engineering at a Munich college. A bout of typhoid slowed his inevitable progress, but he finally graduated with highest honors in 1880 and headed back to Paris. Up to this time, people were using steam engines ushered in by the Industrial Revolution. However, Diesel recognized that they were highly inefficient, wasting as much as 90 percent of their energy. So he went about developing a smarter alternative, with the original idea of helping small businesses compete with the steam-driven monoliths of commerce. Diesel filed a patent for an internal combustion engine in 1894, where fuel was injected at the top of a piston's compression cycle, and that combination created ignition. He almost died before that. During his exper...

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Rudolf Diesel The German mechanical engineer Rudolf Diesel (1858-1913) is remembered for the compression-ignition internal combustion engine which bears his name. Rudolf Diesel was born March 18, 1858, in Paris. His interest in mechanics was early roused by frequent visits to the Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers. Early in the About 1890 Diesel saw that air could be used as the working fluid and worked out the elements of his engine cycle. Air, highly compressed in a cylinder, would rise in temperature; fuel injected into this hot gas would burn spontaneously. Ideally, combustion would occur at constant temperature and pressure, and expansion of the gases would drive the piston. Thus the conversion of heat to work would reach an optimum. Diesel's design was sufficiently advanced for him to patent it in 1892, and he described it in the paper "The Theory and Design of a Rational Heat Engine" (1893). With Linde's support two outstanding German concerns, Maschinenfabrik, Augsburg, and Friedrich Krupp, Essen, agreed to finance its development. From 1893 Diesel worked on the engine at Augsburg. By 1897 the engine was perfected to Diesel's satisfaction, and it was displayed in the Munich Exhibition of 1898. It used a heavier fuel oil than the then relatively explosive gasoline engines with which it was to compete. Its fuel economy was remarkable, and it ran quietly. With success came worldwide interest, and manufactures were licensed to build the engine. In 1897 Dresden on the ni...

Rudolf Diesel was vain, oversensitive, and paranoid. His stubborn and persistent disposition clouded his ability to make friends, while his sanctimonious bluster alienated those even in his own field. He was revolutionary, a Renaissance man in a Victorian era, a mechanical Michelangelo, painting with grease and gears, pressure and heat. He enjoyed opera, played classical piano, spoke three languages fluently, only wore tailored suits, and took long walks daily. Diesel was as comfortable discussing poetry, language, and art as he was the properties of thermodynamics, the efficiency of steam, and—most importantly—engines. By 1913, thousands of engines bearing his name were puffing away noisily in factories around the world, but all was not well. On September 29, 1913, during a particularly cold crossing from Antwerp to England, Diesel stepped over the stern railing of the steamship Dresden—and jumped. Diesel’s body was found floating near Norway 10 days later. Conspiracy theories flourished. Diesel’s early life was hallmarked by success in school and the bourgeoning engineering field at the midst of the industrial revolution. Diesel’s Early Life Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel was the second of three children, born on March 18, 1858, to Elise and Theodor Diesel, Bavarian transplants living in Paris. When the Franco-Prussian war broke out in 1870, Diesel’s family was forced to leave France. They settled in London, but Diesel was sent to his father’s hometown of Augsburg (about 4...

Rudolf Diesel Rudolf Diesel invented the diesel engine in the 1890s. From the beginning, this engine could run on a variety of fuels, including vegetable oil. In 1900, one of the new diesel engines featured at the Paris Exposition was powered by peanut oil. However, because cheap petroleum fuels were easily available, few people were interested in alternatives (Pahl, 2005, pp. 18-22). As early as the 1930s, there was interest in splitting the fatty acids from the glycerin in vegetable oil in order to create a thinner product similar to petroleum diesel. In 1937, G. Chavanne was granted a Belgian patent for an ethyl ester of palm oil (which today we would call biodiesel). In 1938, a passenger bus fueled with palm oil ethyl ester plied the route between Brussels and Louvain (Knothe, 2005, p. 10). During World War II (1939 to 1945), when petroleum fuel supplies were interrupted, vegetable oil was used as fuel by several countries, including Brazil, Argentina, China, India, and Japan. However, when the war ended and petroleum supplies were again cheap and plentiful, vegetable oil fuel was forgotten. Modern Interest in Biodiesel In the 1970s, the petroleum oil embargo caused many countries to look to vegetable oil as a possible fuel. Scientists in Austria, the United States, South Africa, and many other countries rediscovered that straight vegetable oil could be used to run diesel engines; however, eventually the poor quality of the fuel spray caused by the thickness (viscosity...

• • Production 30 April 1896 – 6 October 1896 Layout Single-cylinder A-type, crosshead piston 19,635cm 3 (1,198.2in 3) 250mm (9.84in) 400mm (15.75in) Grey cast iron Combustion Diesel Piston-type supercharger + intercooler (until 28 January 1897) None (from 28 January 1897) Fuel type Kerosine Petrol Ligroin Coal-tar creosote oil Paraffin oil Gas oil Fuel oil Solar oil Naphtha Benzene Shale oil Peanut oil Mains gas Manual Water-cooled Output 13.1kW (17.8PS) at 154/min 812N⋅m (82.8kp⋅m) at 154/min Dimensions Diameter 3,000mm (120in) (flywheel) Chronology Predecessor Motor 220/400 The Motor 250/400 is the first functional A-Motor, and the B-Motor. The latter has been on static display at the Motor 250/400 were made. Most of these copies were very unreliable, which almost caused the diesel engine's demise. History [ ] Development [ ] In early 1893, Motor 150/400, was completed on 12 July 1893. Motor 220/400, it had become clear that, a completely new engine had to be designed from scratch. In order to improve the efficiency of the development process, a new design bureau was built directly into Diesel's Augsburg testing laboratory. Several young engineers worked there, including Building and post-design phase [ ] The cylinder casting worked without any problems, and the first cylinder cast was used. Motor 250/400; the final modifications to the engine were made in early January 1897. Post-completion phase [ ] On 17 February 1897, that we are beholding a quite marketable machine...

Let's get one thing straight: Rudolf Diesel is not Vin Diesel's great-grandfather. Vin's real name is Mark Sinclair, but that sounds a bit too boy-next-door for a tough-guy actor. What better way to create an aura than to use the name of tough-guy fuel? Diesel powers much of our economy in the form of big work trucks, agricultural vehicles, locomotives, bulldozers, marine engines, and the like, but the man who invented the compression ignition engine probably wasn't a tough guy either. He was, however, an incredible engineer, one of those really smart types who would no doubt have thrived in any period of human history. He was born in Paris in 1858 to German parents, but he moved to the Fatherland when he was 12, where he won a scholarship at 14 to study engineering at a Munich college. A bout of typhoid slowed his inevitable progress, but he finally graduated with highest honors in 1880 and headed back to Paris. Up to this time, people were using steam engines ushered in by the Industrial Revolution. However, Diesel recognized that they were highly inefficient, wasting as much as 90 percent of their energy. So he went about developing a smarter alternative, with the original idea of helping small businesses compete with the steam-driven monoliths of commerce. Diesel filed a patent for an internal combustion engine in 1894, where fuel was injected at the top of a piston's compression cycle, and that combination created ignition. He almost died before that. During his exper...