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7 unusual facts about diesel engine


Arona, Piedmont

Arona is also the last station for two minor rail lines, connecting Arona to Novara and to Santhià; the latter uses single-car diesel trains.

Seashore Trolley Museum

In the 1950s, a diesel-powered electric generator was used to allow the cars to move under their own power.

Shore Line East

In recognition of the large role played by the New Haven in the history and heritage of the state of Connecticut, ConnDOT paints SLE's diesel-powered locomotives in the New Haven's orange and black style.

Spring Hill, Queensland

After its closure the trams were initially replaced with diesel buses, but in 1951 these were replaced by a trolley-bus service.

Submarine warfare

Modern submarine warfare consists primarily of diesel and nuclear submarines using weapons (like torpedoes, missiles or nuclear weapons), as well as advanced sensing equipment, to attack other submarines, ships, or land targets.

The Tower King

Tempest, Spencer, and their army slowly regained control over parts of central London, encountering a hospital containing medical staff who had become insane due to events and had started a cult around worship of human organs; a group called the Wreckers who drove hand-cranked diesel-powered tanks and trains; and an 'electric temple' inside a power station, within which another deranged group of people worshipped electricity, pretending it to still exist.

Williams Rocks

The Williams Rocks were named by the ANCA for J. Williams, assistant diesel mechanic at Mawson Station in 1962, who assisted in a triangulation of the Williams Rocks and the erection of a beacon.


Bellanca CH-300

In 1931, a Bellanca fitted with a Packard DR-980 diesel, piloted by Walter Lees and Frederick Brossy, set a record for staying aloft for 84 hours and 33 minutes without being refuelled.

BioEthanol for Sustainable Transport

The project included demonstration of two types of bioethanol-powered buses, a diesel engine Scania bus running on ED95 (sugarcane ethanol plus an ignition improver) and a Dongfeng bus capable of running on both E100 and petrol (flexible-fuel bus).

Continental Motors, Inc.

Although Continental is most well known for its engines for light aircraft, it was also contracted to produce the air-cooled V-12 AV-1790-5B gasoline engine for the U.S. Army's M47 Patton tank and the diesel AVDS-1790-2A and its derivatives for the M48, M60 Patton and Merkava main battle tanks.

DiesOtto

Its name is a portmanteau of Diesel and Otto, referring to the Diesel engine, first introduced by German engineer Rudolf Diesel, and the Otto cycle, as a reference to Nicolaus Otto (even though the invention of the gasoline engine is variously attributed to both Nicolaus Otto and Alphonse Beau de Rochas).

Economy of Hamilton, Ontario

Other tenants already announced for the park include a corrosion research centre sponsored by General Motors and a diesel engine research lab sponsored by Ford.

Hans List

His research work yielded sensational insights into functionality and improvement of Diesel motors, and of combustion engines in general.

Isuzu 6H Engine

The Isuzu 6H is an inline-6 cylinder Diesel engine installed in Isuzu medium duty trucks, and also installed in GM medium-duty trucks as the Duramax LG4.

John Dering Nettleton

Thus on 17 April 1942 Squadron Leader Nettleton was the leader of one formation of six Avro Lancaster bombers on a daylight attack on a diesel engine factory at Augsburg, near Munich Germany flying Lancaster Mk I, R5508, coded "KM-B" .

Le Mans Prototype

Turbochargers and superchargers allowed for petrol engines with a maximum displacement of 2000 cc (122 ci) and for diesel engines with a maximum displacement of 3700 cc (225.8 ci), restrictor-limited to around 700 bhp.

Miles per gallon gasoline equivalent

This ruling uses miles per gallon gasoline equivalent for all fuel and advanced technology vehicles available in the U.S. market including plug-in hybrids, electric vehicles, flexible-fuel vehicles, hydrogen fuel cell vehicle, natural gas vehicles, diesel-powered vehicles, and gasoline-powered vehicles.

Nitrogen oxide sensor

However, owing to much higher combustion temperatures due to high cylinder compression and turbo or supercharging, diesel engines produce much higher engine-out NOx emissions than do spark-ignition gasoline engines, but the nonexistent NOx after-treatment causes diesel engines to emit significantly more NOx at the tailpipe compared to a typical gasoline engine with a 3-way catalyst.

P-40 radar

The P-40 used the AT-T artillery tractor with tracked chassis, fitted with a 12-cylinder 4-stroke diesel engine with an output of 342 kW (465 hp) and producing a top speed of 55 km/h.

Paxman Hi-Dyne engine

The Paxman Hi-Dyne engine was a form of experimental diesel engine developed for rail transport use by the British engine makers Paxman of Colchester.

Peanut oil

At the 1900 Paris Exhibition, the Otto Company, at the request of the French government, demonstrated that peanut oil could be used as a source of fuel for the diesel engine; this was one of the earliest demonstrations of biodiesel technology.

Pyapon

It serves as a center for collecting rice from the surrounding agricultural areas, and is home to a diesel-run power plant, using equipment by the German firm Siemens.

Rolls-Royce Crecy

Both these engines had initially been converted to diesel sleeve-valved operation with a lower power output than the original design being noted along with increased mechanical failures, although one converted Kestrel was subsequently used successfully by Captain George Eyston in a land-speed record car named Speed of the Wind.

Roots-type supercharger

It is frequently used as a supercharger in engines, where it is driven directly from the engine's crankshaft via a belt or, in a two-stroke diesel engine, by spur gears.

Tanadgusix Corporation

TDX Power is a power production and distribution company with a hybrid wind-diesel power plant in Saint Paul (the largest hybrid wind-diesel power plant in Alaska), a 4-MW Cat diesel power plant in Sand Point, Alaska, and a 10-MW diesel and natural gas power plant on the North Slope in Deadhorse.

Thornycroft

Today, the Thornycroft name is used by a builder of marine diesel engines for private and light commercial use, the engines being based around small-capacity engines designed by Mitsubishi.

Toyota L engine

Developed as a new version of 2L-T, the 2L-TE features a new development used in Diesel engines at that time, the EFI (Electronic Fuel Injection) system.


see also

AMX-50

The Maybach HL 295 (a redesigned German gas engine in 1945 captured at Friedrichshafen by Engineer-General Joseph Molinié) and a Saurer diesel engine were tested.

Barclay Curle

In 1913, the North British Diesel Engine Works was built at the company's Clydeholm Shipyard in Whiteinch, a seminal modernist building that was influenced by Peter Behrens' AEG turbine factory in Berlin and continues to stand today.

Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Company

The self-funded prototype Lion main line locomotive was a particular disappointment, powered by a Sulzer 2,750 hp diesel engine, it was pitted against another self-funded prototype, Falcon, built by Brush at Loughborough which had twin 1,400 hp Maybach engines; after trials British Railways preferred the BRCW approach, but ordered them to be built by the Brush company.

BM-21 Grad

The Homicho Ammunition Engineering Complex produces the rockets while the Bishoftu Motorization Engineering Complex produces the launching tubes and has converted existing trucks to diesel engine.

Carlisle II

It was a three cylinder hot bulb (or "semi-diesel") engine rated 75 horsepower at 340 RPM.

Cresco, Iowa

Although Cresco is no longer on a railroad line, it is home to a restored Milwaukee Road FP7 diesel engine which is known as the Heritage Train and displayed in Beadle Park at the center of the city on Highway 9.

Deutz

Deutz AG, a diesel-engine manufacturer based in Cologne, Germany

Duramax

Duramax V8 engine, a turbocharged V-8 Diesel engine designed and built by General Motors

Isuzu 6H Engine, a 6-cylinder commercial Diesel engine, re-branded "Duramax" for GM trucks

Gas turbine-electric locomotive

Bombardier Ltd, at the Plattsburg, N.Y. plant where the Acela was produced, developed a prototype (JetTrain) which combined a Pratt & Whitney Canada PW100 gas turbine and a diesel engine with a single gearbox powering four traction motors identical to those in Acela.

GE boxcab

These locomotives were originally produced by a consortium of ALCO, GE and Ingersoll Rand, ALCO dropped out of the arrangement in 1928, after acquiring their own diesel engine manufacturer in McIntosh & Seymour and went on to start its own line of diesel switchers.

Genset

Diesel generator, a combination of diesel engine and electric generator

GMD NF210

One of the preserved locomotives number 931, located in Corner Brook still has its diesel engine intact, all of the others had their engines removed prior to being put on display.

James Fife, Jr.

About this time he and Captain J. E. Wilkes, his former squadron commander, were instrumental in identifying several deficiencies of the submarine force, especially the difficulties with the Mark 14 torpedo and the Hooven-Owens-Rentschler diesel engine.

JTD engine

A small 1.3 L (1,248 cc) version (called the SDE, Small Diesel Engine) is produced in Bielsko-Biała, Poland and in Ranjangaon, Pune, India by Fiat India Auto.

Kolomna Locomotive Works

The plant in Kolomna built: the first Russian three-axle locomotive T-Series (1870), who became the first engine s and the plant itself, the world's first ship with a diesel engine plant - lift "the Kolomna Diesel" (1907) and the first production Soviet locomotive Mahindra Navistar

The MaxxForce 7.2 diesel engine to be produced in India is also fully compliant with BS III and BS IV emissions standards.

Mazda Diesel engine

2002 RF Mazda diesel engine includes new dual-mass flywheel and common rail Denso injection with max.

Melbourne Steam Traction Engine Club

On site there is an extensive collection of Mobile Steam, Stationary Steam Engines, Stationary IC Engines, Diesel engines, Diesel Generator sets, Tractors and other mobile machinery.

Metso

The Metso Foundries Karlstadt unit specialized in casts of wind power components, diesel engine blocks and Yankee cylinders for paper machines.

Moretti Motor Company

In 1979 the Fiat Campagnola-based Moretti Sporting appeared, with a 2.5 liter diesel engine.

SNCB Class 70

During 1992 7004 acquired a Cockerill diesel engine to replace its original Anglo Belgium Cy unit.

T95 Medium Tank

A contract was signed with the Continental Motors Company in the development of the AVDS-1100 air-cooled diesel engine, and with Caterpillar to develop the LVDS-1100 water-cooled diesel engine.

The Railway Series

In one illustration by John T. Kenney in Duck and the Diesel Engine he appears with a figure who bears a strong resemblance to C. Reginald Dalby, which Brian Sibley has suggested might be a dig at Dalby's inaccurate rendition of the character of Duck.

Type 074 medium landing ship

To accommodate the larger size, a pair of more powerful version of Chinese license produced MAN SE 8L20/27 diesel engine have been installed, each with 1142 hp.

V20 engine

MTU Friedrichshafen produces a 20-cylinder diesel engine called the 20V4000, used in marine and rail applications, such as the Brookville BL36PH locomotive.

Varity

In August 1996, the remaining electrical, brake and Diesel engine divisions of Varity merged with Birmingham UK based Lucas Industries plc (Automotive & Aerospace) to become British-based LucasVarity.