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Rudolf Diesel
Home Country Year of Birth Year of Death Age at Death Field(s) of Study :France :1858 :1913 :55 years old :Invention Compare Invention Inventors Mechanical Engineering Compare Mechanical Engineering Inventors

BIOGRAPHY
Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel is his real name. He was a German inventor and mechanical engineer, famous for the invention of the diesel engine. 1858 Diesel was born in Paris, France in 1858 as the second of three children to Theodor and Elise Diesel. Diesel's parents were German-born immigrants living in France. Theodor Diesel, a bookbinder by trade, had left his home town of Augsburg, Bavaria, in 1848. Theodor met his wife, Elise Strobel, daughter of a Nuremberg merchant in Paris in 1855 and became a leather goods manufacturer there. 1883 In 1883, Diesel married Martha Flasche, and continued to work for Linde, garnering numerous patents in both Germany and France.

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1890 In early 1890, Diesel moved his wife and their three children (Rudolf Jr, Heddy and Eugen) to Berlin to assume management of Linde's corporate research and development department and to join several other corporate boards there. Because he was not allowed to use the patents he developed while an employee of Linde's for his own purposes, Diesel sought to expand into an area outside refrigeration. He first toyed with steam, his research into fuel efficiency leading him to build a steam engine using ammonia vapour. 1913 After Diesel's death, the diesel engine underwent much development, and became a very important replacement for the steam piston engine in many applications.

INVENTION

Diesel Engine

Patent Number Date of Patent Issuance

:608845 :August 09, 1898

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How diesel engine works?

1. You turn the key in the ignition.

Glow plugs provide extra heat to burn fuel more efficiently.

2. A Start light goes on.

3. Fuel pumps deliver the fuel from the fuel tank to the engine.

A diesel fuel filter.

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4. The fuel injection pump pressurizes fuel into a delivery tube.

Anatomy of a fuel injector.

A common rail fuel injection system

5. The fuel, air, and fire meet in the cylinders. 6. Combustion spreads from the smaller amount of fuel thats placed under pressure in the precombustion chamber to the fuel and air in the combustion chamber itself.

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Invention Description The diesel engine has the benefit of running more fuel-efficiently than gasoline engines due to much higher compression ratios and longer duration of combustion which means the temperature rises more slowly, allowing more heat to be converted to mechanical work. Rudolf Diesel originally conceived the diesel engine to enable independent craftsmen and artisans to compete with industry. 1. Why is a diesel engine more efficient than a gasoline engine? In a diesel engine only air is compressed after which fuel is injected. In a gasoline engine, both air and fuel are sucked into the engine at the same time and this limits compression in the engine cylinder. Diesel engines reach very high compression ratios of between 14:1 and 23:1. Compression ratios in cars usually range between 7:1 to 10:1. In diesel engines on the other hand there is no restriction on the amount of air entering the engine. Gasoline engines need spark plugs to ignite the petroleum which is not required in diesel engines as the high compression ratio allows air to be heated to very high temperatures. Diesel is heavier than gasoline. Since the chains of hydrogen and carbon atoms that make up these fuels are longer and heavier in diesel, it has 17% more of these atoms in comparison to gasoline thereby allowing diesel engines to be more fuel efficient. 2. Minus point of diesel engine: Diesel engines are heavier and take longer to accelerate than gasoline engines. A diesel engine takes longer to be warmed up and can be difficult to start during winter. As a solution, many diesel engines come with glow plugs that help to heat up the engine in conjunction with an engine heating system.

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Invention Impact Rudolf Diesel's engines were used to power pipelines, electric and water plants, automobiles and trucks, and marine craft, and soon after were used in applications including mines, oil fields, factories, and transoceanic shipping.