Already early Rudolf Diesel (1858 - 1913) was interested in diesel engines. In his youth he was fascinated by the automobile engines of Lenoir and the steam engines that were usual at his time. During his study he learned of his teacher, professor Linde, a famous inventor, that the thermal engine could reach by far a better performance. He referred to the young Frenchman Sadi Carnot (1796 - 1832), who discovered the Carnot' cyclic process, a physical principle that describes the ideal process of the automobile burn in an diesel engine (read more about it in the physics section).
Diesel was pursued from now on by the thought to build such an diesel engine. 1890, Diesel had the crucial idea, how the automobile cumbustion process could be improved: The engine takes in just air, which is to be compressed now to a pressure of about 200 bar. At this point, heavy automobile fuel (such as automobile crude oil or petroleum) gets injected by an injector in the air that is heated up because of the huge pressure. The high themperature leads immediately to the inflammation of the automobile fuel by autoignition, which makes a spark plug unnecessary.
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Posted by Kimberly Tuesday, October 3, 2006Engine Cooling System
Posted by Kimberly Saturday, July 15, 2006For the forty years following the first flight of the Wright brothers, airplanes used internal automobile combustion engines to turn propellers to generate thrust. Today, most general aviation or private airplanes are still powered by propellers and internal automobile combustion engines, much like your automobile engine. We will discuss the fundamentals of the internal combustion engine using the Wright brothers' 1903 diesel engine, shown in the figure, as an example. The brothers' design is very simple by today's standards, so it is a good automobile engine for students to study and learn the fundamentals of engines and their operation. On this page we present a computer drawing of the engine cooling system of the Wright brothers' 1903 aircraft engine.
In any internal combustion engine, automobile fuel and oxygen are combined in a combustion process to produce the power to turn the crankshaft of the engine. The job of the transports engine cooling system is to prevent damage to the auto transport engine parts which could result from high temperatures. The auto mover cooling system of the Wright brothers is composed of three main components; a radiator mounted on the airframe, the hoses which connect the radiator to the crankcase, and a water jacket around the auto mobile cylinders of the motor.
The automobile radiator and hoses are colored blue on the computer drawing at the top of this page. The automobile radiator is mounted high on the wing strut next to the pilot because the brothers used gravity to feed the coolant (water) into the automobile engine. Water flows through a large rubber feed hose from the radiator to the bottom of the auto mover diesel engine. The water is circulated around the engine and picks up heat from the cylinders. The water then returns to the automobile radiator through the two return hoses located on the top of the auto movers diesel engine. In flight, air flows through the vanes of the radiator and the heat is transferred to the air and carried away from the aircraft.