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Named after Rudolf Diesel, who invented it in 1893, the diesel engine is often associated with a dirty, smoky exhaust — an admittedly nebulous impression in no small part fueled by the black clouds of ...

Diesel and gasoline engines might look alike under the hood, but they use oil in very different ways. Gas engines run cleaner, but diesels create much more soot, crank out higher compression forces, ...

Diesel is not gas. While it comes from the same source as gasoline (crude oil), under no circumstances should diesel-powered vehicles function using gasoline. Gas combusts very differently from diesel ...

A.Here's a pressure-volume diagram for a combustion engine. Although rough, it is an approximation of the so-called air-standard cycle. '' Point (a) is at atmospheric pressure, after which the air is ...

Why Do Diesel Engines Make So Much Torque? If you compare gasoline and diesel models of the same vehicle, the diesel engine tends to have far more torque. Why is this? In this video we'll discuss the ...

A post goes viral on Facebook every few months when someone puts “green gas” in their car. It’s kind of an ongoing joke used to slam folks who are none the wiser about the differences between gas and ...