At the end of the lesson, the student shall be

able to:
1. Explain what is a Diesel Cycle and differentiate it to
Otto Cycle.
2. Deteremine what are the processes involve
in a Diesel Cycle by plotting the P-V and T-s Diagram
3. Solve word problem related to Diesel Cycle
1. Definition of Diesel ycle
2. Processes - Diesel Cycle
3. Word Problems - Diesel Cycle
 - Developed by Rudolph Karl Diesel (1858-1913)
- Used in Compression-Ignition internal combustion
engines (Diesel Engine/ CI reciprocating engine)
- In the CI engine, the ignition of the combustion
process is attained by compression of the working fluid up
to a larger temperature than the fuel’s autoignition
temperature. When the temperature of the air increases
adequately, high-pressure liquid fuel is sprayed into the
combustion chamber. Thus, the ignition process occurs
rapidly.
- It consist of a constant pressure heat addition
process that starts with a piston in the top dead
center, a constant volume heat rejection process,
and two reversible adiabatic processes
V s
 2 3 2 3

Constant volume heat addition

1 2
3 4 4 1
2 3
; ;
Relation among compression ratio, cut-off ratio and expansion
ratio
Example No.1. There are supplied 320 kJ/cycle of heat to an ideal diesel engine
operating on 0.225 kg of air. Pressure and temperature at the beginning of compression
are 98 Kpa and 47 degree Celsius, respectively. At the end of compression, the pressure
is 3900 Kpa. find (a) compression ratio (b) cut-off ratio (c) Qr , (d) W (e) e (f) mep
Given:

For air:
R = 0.28708 kJ/kg-K
C = 0.7177 kJ/kg-K
C = 1.00478 kJ/kg-K
k= 1.4
Example No.1. There are supplied 320 kJ/cycle of heat to an ideal diesel engine
operating on 0.225 kg of air. Pressure and temperature at the beginning of compression
are 98 Kpa and 47 degree Celsius, respectively. At the end of compression, the pressure
is 3900 Kpa. find (a) compression ratio (b) cut-off ratio (c) Qr , (d) W (e) e (f) mep
Solution:

a.

solving for :
Example No.1. There are supplied 320 kJ/cycle of heat to an ideal diesel engine
operating on 0.225 kg of air. Pressure and temperature at the beginning of compression
are 98 Kpa and 47 degree Celsius, respectively. At the end of compression, the pressure
is 3900 Kpa. find (a) compression ratio (b) cut-off ratio (c) Qr , (d) W (e) e (f) mep

solving for :
Example No.1. There are supplied 320 kJ/cycle of heat to an ideal diesel engine
operating on 0.225 kg of air. Pressure and temperature at the beginning of compression
are 98 Kpa and 47 degree Celsius, respectively. At the end of compression, the pressure
is 3900 Kpa. find (a) compression ratio (b) cut-off ratio (c) Qr , (d) W (e) e (f) mep
b.

solving for :

solving for :
Example No.1. There are supplied 320 kJ/cycle of heat to an ideal diesel engine
operating on 0.225 kg of air. Pressure and temperature at the beginning of compression
are 98 Kpa and 47 degree Celsius, respectively. At the end of compression, the pressure
is 3900 Kpa. find (a) compression ratio (b) cut-off ratio (c) Qr , (d) W (e) e (f) mep

solving for :

; ; ;
Example No.1. There are supplied 320 kJ/cycle of heat to an ideal diesel engine
operating on 0.225 kg of air. Pressure and temperature at the beginning of compression
are 98 Kpa and 47 degree Celsius, respectively. At the end of compression, the pressure
is 3900 Kpa. find (a) compression ratio (b) cut-off ratio (c) Qr , (d) W (e) e (f) mep
c.
Example No.1. There are supplied 320 kJ/cycle of heat to an ideal diesel engine
operating on 0.225 kg of air. Pressure and temperature at the beginning of compression
are 98 Kpa and 47 degree Celsius, respectively. At the end of compression, the pressure
is 3900 Kpa. find (a) compression ratio (b) cut-off ratio (c) Qr , (d) W (e) e (f) mep
d. f.

e.

Answers:
a. e. e = 56.40 %

b. f. mep = 922.22 kPa

c.

d.
Example No.2. A diesel operates with with a compression ratio of 13. 5 and with a
cut-off occuring at 6% of the stroke. State 1 is defined by 14 psia and 140 F. for the
hot-air standard with k=1.34 and for an initial 1 cu. ft compute (a) T2, P2 ,V2 , T3,
V3 P4 and V4 (b) QA QR (c) W (d) e and pm (e) For a rate of circulation of 1000
cfm, compute the horsepower