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Supercharging of IC Engines
Supercharging is the name given to the process of increasing the pressure of the air-fuel mixture entering a petrol engine…
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Construction of IC Engines
Fig. 13-15 shows the mechanical elements of the reciprocating I.C. engine. The piston which reciprocates in the cylinder is made…
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Classification of IC Engines
There are no standard methods or ways of classifying I.C. Engines. They may be classified in many ways such as…
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The Concept of IC Engine
The internal combustion engine (ICE) is an engine where the combustion of a fuel (normally a fossil fuel) occurs with …
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Main Components of IC Engines
Cylinder Block: • It is the main block of the engine. • It contains cylinders accurately finished to accommodate pistons • The cylinder…
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14 Terminologies Used for Power of the Ship’s Marine Propulsion Engine
The best thing about being a marine engineer on a ship is controlling the most powerful thing in the world ever created…
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Mean Piston Speed
What is Mean Piston Speed ? The mean piston speed is the average piston speed in the reciprocating engine. Or,Piston speed usually refers to…
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Diesel Combustion
The diesel engine is an intermittent-combustion piston-cylinder device. It operates on either a two-stroke or four-stroke cycle (see figure); however, unlike…
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Price’s engine
In 1914 a young American engineer, William T. Price, began to experiment with an engine that would operate with a lower compression…
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Fuel-injection technology
One objectionable feature of the full diesel was the necessity of a high-pressure, injection air compressor. Not only was energy required…
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Development Of Diesel Engines
Rudolf Diesel, a German engineer, conceived the idea for the engine that now bears his name after he had sought…
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Fuel For Diesels
Petroleum products normally used as fuel for diesel engines are distillates composed of heavy hydrocarbons, with at least 12 to 16 carbon atoms…