Diesel and gasoline fuel sources both bring unique assets and liabilities to powering internal combustion engines. But what if an engine could be programmed to harvest the best properties of both fuel ...

A.Here's a pressure-volume diagram for a combustion engine. Although rough, it is an approximation of the so-called air-standard cycle. '' Point (a) is at atmospheric pressure, after which the air is ...

Mazda’s new diesel combustion chamber design has separate areas for fuel injection and combustion. Given the fuss over diesel engines in the past few years and the inevitable public conclusion that ...

It is no accident that as the twenty-first century dawns, car manufacturers have stepped up the pace of diesel engine development to a speed not seen in the century or so since Rudolf Diesel patented ...

Despite sounding like a thoroughly entertaining evening out, it is actually a description for one of the most important processes in the majority of engines. Known as the four-cycle, it is the process ...