Diesel cycle:

Apart from Otto cycle, thermodynamic Diesel cycle is one of the most popularly used cycles. The internal combustion diesel engines
that are fitted in your cars and others machines run on the principle of Diesel cycle. Like petrol engine running on the principle of
Otto cycle, the Diesel engines also comprise of four strokes: suction of fuel, compression of fuel, combustion and expansion of fuel
and exhaust of burnt fuel. The four stroke engine has been described in details in article: How Four-Stroke Compression Ignition
Engines Work

In diesel engine initially only air is inducted inside the cylinder and it is compresses to very high pressures. Thereafter the diesel fuel
is injected inside the cylinder and its combustion takes place to high temperature of the compressed air. Since the combustion of
fuel takes place due to compression of air, the diesel engine is also called Compression Ignition (CI) engine.

Four stroke Diesel cycle was invented by Rudolf Diesel in the year 1897. The principle of Diesel cycle is used in the compression
ignition (CI) type of internal combustion engines using diesel as the fuel. Originally when Rudolf Diesel discovered this engine, it
was meant to run on the coal dust.

Diesel cycle is also called as constant pressure cycle. The diesel engine operates on this cycle. This cycle also contains
four processes, out of which two processes are adiabatic, the third one is constant pressure process and forth process is
constant volume process.Diesel cycle is an air-standard cycle (a combustion process), which is used to design mostly
compression ignition engines. Generally, these engines are heavier than petrol engines.

Engine Fuel Feed System:

The main purpose of the fuel feed system is to control the fuel supply to the engine. To supply the fuel from the fuel tank to
the engine cylinders, manufacturers use the following methods in case of a petrol engine.

Types of Fuel Feed systems of a petrol engine:

1. Gravity Feed
2. Pressurized Feed
3. Vacuum system
4. Pump Feed
5. Fuel injection system

First four out of these fuel feed systems work with carburetor while the fuel injection system uses an injector to supply the fuel to the
engine cylinders.

The petrol engine fuel system consists of the following parts:

1. Fuel tank
2. Filters
3. Fuel pump
4. Fuel lines
5. Carburetor or injectors
6. Engine-management system
7. Fuel gauge

Bosch and Delphi are some of the leading manufacturers and suppliers of the engine fuel feed systems in the world.

The fuel feed system for Diesel engines is slightly different than that used for the petrol engines. It carries out the following functions
which are –

1. Storing the diesel fuel.

2. Filtering the diesel.
3. Delivery of the fuel to Fuel Injection Pump. - DI, IDI or CRDi etc.
4. Injecting the fuel into the engine cylinders.

What is a Two-Stroke Engine?

A two-stroke engine is an engine that completes a power cycle with two strokes of the piston during only one crankshaft revolution.

What is a Four-Stroke Engine?

A four-stroke engine is an internal combustion engine in which the piston completes four separate strokes while turning the
crankshaft.
 Two-Stroke vs Four-Stroke

Two Strokes Four Stroke

It has one revolution of the crankshaft during one power It has two revolutions of the crankshaft during one power stroke
stroke

It generates high torque It generates less torque

Its uses port for fuel’s outlet and inlet It uses valves for outlet and inlet of a fuel

Its engines result in lesser thermal efficiency Its engines result in higher thermal efficiency

It has a larger ratio in terms of power to weight It has a lesser ratio in terms of power to weight

It generates more smoke and shows less efficiency It generates less smoke and shows more efficiency

Requires more lubricating oil as some oil burns with the fuel Requires less lubricating oil

Due to poor lubrication, more wear and tear occurs Less wear and tear occurs

Engines are cheaper and are simple for manufacturing Engines are expensive due to lubrication and valves and are tough to
manufacture

Engines are basically lighter and are noisy Engines are basically heavier because its flywheel is heavy and are less noisy

A reciprocating engine, also known as a piston engine, is one of two types of combustion engines, which work by combusting fuel
to create energy. ... A rotary engine has four separate compartments, and in each one, a specific job is performed: intake,
compression, combustion (or ignition), or exhaust.

A reciprocating engine is an engine that uses one or more pistons in order to convert pressure into rotational motion. They use
the reciprocating (up-and-down) motion of the pistons to translate this energy

Due to its revolutionary motion, a rotary engine operates with less vibration than a piston engine. This allows rotary engines to be
tuned to run at higher rpm, thus producing more power. Another advantage of the rotary engine is that in the event of a
breakdown, the engine will not seize up

Jet engines, like rocket engines, use the reaction principle in that they accelerate a mass in one direction and, from Newton's third
law of motion, experience thrust in the opposite direction. However, jet engines use air to burn fuel while rocket engines use stored
oxidizer. The term jet propulsion refers to the action produced by a reactor to the ejection of matter. For example, when the matter
in a typical rocket (like gunpowder in fireworks) is ignited, the resulting chemical reaction produces heat and gases, which escape
from the rocket and cause it to move forward

If mass (kilogram, pound-mass, or slug) is used as the unit of propellant, then specific impulse has units of velocity. If weight
(newton or pound-force) is used instead, then specific impulse has units of time (seconds).