Diesel engines do their hardest work in the toughest jobs, from highway semis to construction equipment, and the reason they ...

Misfueling a gasoline car with diesel is one of those mistakes that goes from embarrassing to expensive in a matter of ...

SAE Transactions, Vol. 96, Section 4: RECIPROCATING ENGINES–SPARK IGNITION AND DIESEL (1987), pp. 624-639 (16 pages) The ignition delay times of forty–two different fuels were measured in a constant ...

New York, United States, Jan. 29, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- A diesel engine is an internal combustion engine that uses diesel fuel to generate power through the compression-ignition process. Unlike ...

Diesel engines ignite the air/fuel mixture with heat generated by friction and compression, while gasoline engines use the heat caused by a spark from a spark plug. That's why diesel engines are ...

A Norcal Waste Systems truck is refueled with liquid natural gas. LNG also can be used in medium-duty trucks, though less exotic spark ignition technology is normally used in place of high-pressure ...

Australians don't seemto know it yet, but dieselcars are greener andmuch cheaper to run. Australians appreciate diesel-engined cars about as much as the French enjoy Vegemite. Which is to say, not ...

The demise of the internal combustion engine has been greatly exaggerated, or so Mercedes-Benz thinks. The company’s position stems from empirical observation, based on all rational evidence: Internal ...

Because diesel vehicles do not use spark plugs, they must rely on higher compression ratios to ignite the diesel fuel without ...