Rudolf Diesel, Inventor of Diesel Engine

Rudolf Diesel

                                                    BORN March 18, 1858 Paris, France
                                          DIED September 29, 1913 (aged 55), Atlantic Ocean

Rudolph Diesel, the perfect Rudolph Christian Carl Diesel (born March 18, 1858 in Paris, France - September 29, 1913), a German thermal engineer who invented an internal-combustion engine with his name. He was also a famous connoisseur of the arts, a linguist and a social theorist.

Diesel, the son of a German-born parent, grew up in Paris until the family was deported to England in 1870 with the onset of the Franco-German War. From London, Diesel was sent to his father's hometown, Augsburg, to continue his education. There and later at Technical High School Munich set a brilliant academic record in the field of engineering. At Munich it was led by refrigeration engineer Carl von Linde, whose Parisian firm joined it in the 1880s.

Diesel devoted much of its time to developing the self-imposed function of the internal combustion engine ( I.C. Engine) that would approach the theoretical efficiency of the Carnot cycle. For a time he experimented with expansion engines using ammonia. Around 1890, the year he was transferred to a new post with Linde Parméri in Berlin, he envisioned the idea for a diesel engine.He obtained a German development patent in 1892 and the following year published a description of his engine under the theory Theory and Concerns in Rationalean Voormotors (Theory and Construction a Rational Heat Motor). With the support of the Mitchinfabric s Gusberg and the Group Companies, he built more and more successful Model Dells, which in 1897 completed the performance of a 25-horsepower, four-stroke, single-vertical cylinder compression engine.The diesel engine's high efficiency, with its comparative ease of design, made it an instant commercial success, and royalty fees brought great wealth to its inventor.

Diesel engine

Use of vegetable oils as Diesel engine fuel

In a book called Diesel Engines for Land and Marine Work, Diesel states that "a small diesel engine was exhibited by the Otto Company in 1900, which was run on groundnut oil at the suggestion of the French government, and very few people are aware of this. The motor was made for ordinary oils, and was run without any change in vegetable oils. I have repeated these experiments extensively, with complete success and complete confirmation of the results recently obtained.