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CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION
By the end of the nineteenth century there mountains of useless coal dust had
piled up in the Ruhr valley in Germany, and Rudolf Diesel started to work to develop
an engine that would burn coal dust. The attempts to design such an engine failed,
but in 1892, Diesel was issued a patent for a proposed system in which air would be
so greatly compressed that the temperature would far exceed the ignition
temperature of an oil fuel. Internal combustion engines have been providing shaft
power.
There are basically two main types of diesel power plants combustion engines
categorized by the type of fuel used: gasoline or diesel. The vast majority of those
engines power automobiles, but they have been also used for ships, boats,
agricultural processing machinery, and many other industrial applications. During the
last quarter of the twentieth century abundant fossil fuel production and distribution
arrangement is very compact, it goes online in a very short lead time, requires only
mechanical workshops and garages. Diesel engines have some disadvantages: They
are noisy, polluting, driven economically by fuel costs (and thus captive to world
politics), require fuel storage close to the power plant, and require logistics and
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1.2 Formulas
1. AMD= DF X CL
Where:
π 2
3. Piston Displacement= B SNC
4
Where:
B= Bore Diameter
S= Length of stroke
N= RPM
C= No of Cylinder
Pd V d T d
4. Free Air Capacity=
T d Pd
Where:
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5. Area of the Water Tubing
π 2
6. V= D H
4
Where:
V= Volume
D= Diameter
H= Height
S PD
7. =
FS 2 TN
Where:
P= Pressure
D= Diameter
T= Thickness
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8. W=
T 2 −t 1
Where:
W= Cooling water
10.Q= mwCp∆ T
Where:
11. P=γh
Where:
P= Pressure
γ = Specific weight
H= Height
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13.Q= AV
Where:
A= area
V= Velocity
15.PV= nRT
Where:
P= Exhaust Pressure
V= Volume rate
R= Gas Constant
T= Exhaust Temperature
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