Four Stroke Diesel Engine
Diesel Cycle – Diesel Engine In the 1890s, a German inventor, Rudolf Diesel has patented his invention of an efficient, slow burning, compression ignition, internal combustion engine. The original cycle proposed by Rudolf Diesel was a constant temperature cycle. In later years Diesel realized his original cycle would not work and he adopted the constant pressure cycle, which is known as the Diesel cycle . Four Stroke Diesel Engine Diesel engines may be designed as either two stroke or four stroke cycles.The four stroke Diesel engine is an internal combustion (IC) engine in which the piston completes four separate strokes while turning a crankshaft. A stroke refers to the full travel of the piston along the cylinder, in either direction. Therefore each stroke does not correspond to single thermodynamic process given in chapter Diesel Cycle – Processes. The four stroke engine comprises: the intake stroke – The piston moves from top dead center (TDC) to bottom dead center (BDC) and the