Diesel Engine

At the beginning of the 20th century most ships were moving with coal and steam. This situation suddenly changed in 1911 when Winston Churchill decided to use oil to move his new fleet. This decision moved the attention of the world's superpowers to the Near East and its oil reserves, which had a major impact on the history of the world.

The real rise of diesel engines began after the Second World War. It was built on almost all types of ships, and it became the driving force of globalization. Today, 90% of world trade is transported by sea. Every day, about 90,000 container ships ship goods, burning up to 1 billion liters of fuel, mainly crude oil. Various other vehicles and machinery are powered by diesel engines, but the impact on the human world is most prominent in the shipping industry.

When Rudolf Diesel invented a diesel engine, I was surprised that his main job was not to fill his pocket with money, but to improve the lives of ordinary workers. He was frustrated because he was unable to achieve his vision. It is very important for me that my manga depicts how his invention and its consequences affect his creators.

Wienecke of Bastian. "Diesel engine." Environment and social portal, multimedia library, 2014. http://www.environmentandsociety.org/node/6636/

The comic has also appeared in Alexandra Haman, Linehold Rainfelder, Helmuth Trisler, Editor-in-Chief, Henning Wagen Breath of Anthropo ザ ン. Ain comic anthology (Munich: German museum, 2014)

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In 1892, German engineer Rudolf Diesel developed a "diesel" engine. Unlike gasoline engines, diesel engines can burn liquid fuel automatically without requiring spark ignition. The main advantage of diesel engines for gasoline engines is their fuel economy and durability. Diesel engines are known as "mainstays" and are ideal for construction machinery, mining machinery, forklift trucks, heavy-duty trucks, buses and trains. Now some cars are also used

Both diesel engines and gasoline engines convert fuel into energy through a series of small explosions or burning. The main difference between diesel and gasoline is how these explosions occur. In a gasoline engine, the fuel mixes with air, is compressed by the piston, and is ignited by a spark of the spark plug. However, in diesel engines, air is first compressed before being injected. When the air is heated as it is compressed, the fuel ignites. Diesel engines do not have a spark plug that injects fuel directly into the combustion chamber after inhaling and compressing air (direct injection). It is the heat of compressed air that illuminates the fuel of a diesel engine. The next section describes the diesel injection process.

In a place where the diesel engine and gas engine are different, the fuel is ignited inside the engine. In gas engines, air and fuel are compressed, and the spark plug ignites the mixture at important points in cycle timing. However, in a diesel engine, there is no spark plug. When the diesel fuel and air are throttled down completely, enough heat is generated to burn the mixture naturally due to extreme compression. This is called "compression ignition" and is the basis of the principle of operation of diesel engines. When the gasoline engine has compression ignition, we often call it "knocking" to destroy the engine. However, the diesel engine was made to use it.