Alternatives For Gasoline Internal Combustion Engine

An alternative to gasoline internal combustion engines is the engine in which the combustion of fuel is done in the cylinder (see Figure 1). The internal combustion engine has one or more cylinders in which the combustion process takes place in order to convert the energy released from the rapid combustion of the mixture into mechanical energy. The person who first tested this engine was Dutch physicist Christian Huygens in 1680. In 1885, Gottlieb Daimler produced a prototype of a generally accepted modern gas engine.

Like gasoline engines, diesel engines are internal combustion engines. Combustion is another term of combustion, the interior is internal, so the internal combustion engine is just where the fuel burns in the main part (cylinder) of the engine. This is very different from the external combustion engine used in the old steam locomotive. In a steam engine, there is a big fire at one end of a boiler that generates steam by heating water. Steam flows through a long tube and flows into the cylinder at the other end of the boiler where it pushes the piston back and forth to move the wheel. This is external combustion as the fire is outside the cylinder (actually 6 to 7 meters or 20 to 30 feet in fact). In gasoline or diesel engines, the fuel burns in the cylinder. That's why internal combustion engines are more efficient than external combustion engines (they produce more energy from the same amount of fuel).

Most modern diesel engines use conventional cylinders and piston devices that work with slider crank mechanisms that are shared with other internal combustion engines such as gasoline engines. Considering this basic mechanism, the basic structural difference between diesel engine and gasoline engine is small. Conceptually, a diesel engine operates by compressing air to high pressure / high temperature and then injecting a small amount of fuel into hot compressed air. At high temperatures, a small amount of atomized injected fuel evaporates. Mixed with the high temperature ambient air in the combustion chamber, the evaporated fuel reaches its autoignition temperature and burns to release the energy stored in the fuel