At the time, they had the highest power-to-weight ratio of any engines in the world: One 18-cylinder Napier D18-25 Deltic engine kicked out 1,650 horsepower. British Rail Class 55 locomotives used ...

Diesel runaway occurs when fuel is unintentionally introduced to the combustion chamber from a source other than the vehicle's dedicated fueling system. It causes the engine speed to ...

Cummins Inc. has landed a $47.4 million contract from the National Advanced Mobility Consortium to develop a revolutionary new type of diesel engine for the U.S. Army that promises to be lighter ...

Check out this 1.5 Billion Dollar engine featuring the Detroit Diesel DD15 with 1,850 lb-ft at 1,100 rpm torque inside Diesel Power Magazine.

Though the rotary diesel never really got beyond the prototype stage of development in the past, the concept has merit. It's a lightweight, compact engine with a good power-to-weight ratio.

Diesel engines are mostly similar to gasoline engines with the primary difference being how the fuel/air mixture is ignited. The components are mostly the same in that a diesel engine also has ...

In this study, a set of performance and emissions data, obtained from a single-cylinder divided-chamber automotive diesel engine over the normal engine operating range, is described and analyzed. The ...

Diesel engines have pistons that look different from the ones you'd see with a gas engine. There's a reason why that's the case, and it's all about performance.