not my car...pedal to the metal.
On 10/26/05, David Brodbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> dave walton wrote:
> >Regardless of how the fuel is ignited, diesel contains roughly 30%
> >more BTU's than gasoline. Any moderately efficient engine will give
> >more MPG's on diesel. I doubt that a compre
Yes, he was born in France. My friend Jason was born
in Canada of American parents and did not come to the
US till he was 3...he isn't a Canadian.
Diesels parents were both born in Bavaria where the
family had roots for hundreds of years. They moved to
Paris, where Rudolf was born. This does not m
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Dave:
Thanks for the enlightment. Actual industry data is better than handbook
stuff, any day.
Your information tells me two things - one bad and one good.
1) If diesel fuel has 30% more energy than gasoline on a volume basis, then
the 20% to 30% better fuel mileage of a diesel is not remarka
The specific BTU's vary widely. Both gasoline and diesel are blended
according to the ambient temperature where they are sold and the local
emission regulations. You can find many different numbers. In fact,
the winter blend of diesel sold at the pump may have 30,000 fewer
BTU's than the summer ble
<< Regardless of how the fuel is ignited, diesel contains roughly 30%
more BTU's than gasoline.>>
Dave - According to my reference books that is not accurate.
According to "Internal Combustion Engines" a mechanical engineering text
book by Obert -
Motor gasoline - 20,300 Btu/lb or 124,300 Btu/ga
dave walton wrote:
Regardless of how the fuel is ignited, diesel contains roughly 30%
more BTU's than gasoline. Any moderately efficient engine will give
more MPG's on diesel. I doubt that a compression ignition engine run
on gasoline will be 30% more efficient than current technology using a
spa
dave walton wrote:
> I expect the next logical step will be to extract energy from the
> waste heat of combustion.
I can recall a couple of hybrid vehicles in Popular Science about
30 years ago which used a smaller gas engine combined with a closed
loop "steam" engine (working fluid was freon not
He was German? He was born in France though. See these articles:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Diesel
http://rudolf-diesel.biography.ms/
http://www.answers.com/topic/rudolf-diesel
I also don't like NY city but am quite fond of the Midwest.
On 10/26/05, Christopher McCann <[EMAIL PROTECT
backwards:
Diesel (Rudolf, not Rudolph) was German, who grew up
in Paris, fled with his fam to england during the
Franco-Prussian war becuase of anti-German hysteria
and then moved to Germany and lived there the rest of
his life when he was not travelling. I do think one of
his jobs (when he worke
I think Rudolph Diesel was actually a french man living in Germany
On 10/26/05, Christopher McCann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> They are developping direct injection HCCI engines, so
> there is another argument for caliing it a diesel.
>
> FYI, Diesel's first diesel engine ran on...GASOLINE(!)
>
ol/gas. So
> please don't get mixed up
> >when you fill it up."
> >
> >Hendrik
> >
> >- Original Message -----
> >From: "Christopher McCann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Sent: Wednesday, October 2
They are developping direct injection HCCI engines, so
there is another argument for caliing it a diesel.
FYI, Diesel's first diesel engine ran on...GASOLINE(!)
and it wasn't called a gasoline engine, nor was it
called Diesel, it was called the "Rational Heat
Engine"...other people started calling
- Original Message -
> IIRC there is more difference between between spark ignition and
compression
> ignition than the fuel and ignition source.
> The two are idealized with different thermodynamic cycles.
> Spark ignitioin (SI) uses the Otto cycle which sucks in the fuel/air
charge
> d
IIRC there is more difference between between spark ignition and compression
ignition than the fuel and ignition source.
The two are idealized with different thermodynamic cycles.
Spark ignitioin (SI) uses the Otto cycle which sucks in the fuel/air charge
during the intake stroke. After compressio
t, it actually runs on petrol/gas. So please don't get mixed up
when you fill it up."
Hendrik
- Original Message -
From: "Christopher McCann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 4:37 AM
Subject: [MBZ] HCCI and 'wha
On 10/25/05, Hendrik Riessen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Well from what I can see it is to do with the name of the fuel that is
> used
> in a particular engine.
I'd agree with Hendrik, although our diesels are compression ignition,
they run on diesel fuel. Some Military Multi-fuel engines ca
el in it, it actually runs on petrol/gas. So please don't get mixed up
when you fill it up."
Hendrik
- Original Message -
From: "Christopher McCann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 4:37 AM
Subject: [MBZ] HCC
In reading about HCCI, it annoys me that they say it
is 'like a diesel' or 'like it's diesel cousin'...I
guess this bugs me b/c I have read about Diesel
himself and see how he envisaged the engine. Any
compression ignition engine is a diesel...obvisouly
HCCI is the most different out there, esp si
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