Diesel engines do their hardest work in the toughest jobs, from highway semis to construction equipment, and the reason they ...

The key ingredient to maximizing the peak performance of a diesel engine is increasing the amount of diesel being burned. On old mechanical-injection engines, the only way to do this was to modify the ...

When getting to know each diesel engine in the truck market, it’s important to know its lifeblood: how it gets its fuel. Because the injection pump is at the heart of everything in a diesel powerplant ...

Sandia National Laboratories researchers (left to right: Nathan Harry, Christopher Nilsen, Drummond Biles, and Charles Mueller) show off their prototype of ducted fuel injection module for diesel ...

SAE International Journal of Engines, Vol. 10, No. 4 (October 2017), pp. 1443-1453 (11 pages) Partially Premixed Combustion (PPC) is a promising combustion concept ,based on judicious tuning of the ...

If you’re in fleet management or the construction industry, you undoubtedly have machines that run on diesel fuel. In addition to large trucks, more than 75% of all heavy construction equipment uses ...

Diesel engines operate at higher compression ratios than gasoline engines, and fuel is injected under much higher pressure. An injection pump, usually driven by a belt or chain linked to the ...