Diesel, Rudolph

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Diesel Rudolph Christian Karl (1858-1913) Fr. eng., inventor of diesel engine by ignition through compression Diokles of Karystos (= 400-350 BC) Gr. phys., idea of pneuma , believed that both sexes contribute to embryo formation Divis Prokop (Divish Procopius) (1696-1765) Czech phil. and experim., studied hydrodynamics, electrophysiology and electricity, known as the inventor of lightening rods (1753) proposing their wider use... 

Rudolph Christian Karl Diesel was a German thermal engineer and inventor of the high-efficiency internal-combustion engine that bears his name. 

In 1882 Diesel met Martha Flasche, a German. The couple married in November 1883 and for the remainder of the decade lived in Paris, where they had three children Rudolph, Jr. (b. 1884), Hedy (b. 1885), and Eugen (b. 1889). 

Rudolph Diesel s original intent was to produce a low-heat-rejection internal-combustion engine without the need for a cooling system. He believed that this would provide less heat losses from the combustion process and provide him with a superior heat, or thermally efficient (TE), design concept. To his chagrin. 

Hundred years after the discovery of Rudolph Diesel s motor, scientists evaluate the possibility to obtain alternative fuels, similar to Diesel fuel. It is well known that several fuels are chemical materials normally employed in simple and complex chemical processes. Biodiesel is comprised of esters that are derived from the transesterification of oils and fats with alcohols and has emerged in recent years as a great potential complementary resource to petroleum-based fuels and derivatives. Rudolf Diesel predicted that the use of vegetable oils for engine fuels may seem insignificant during his time but could become as significant as petroleum and coal-tar products in the future [10],... 

The fuel of choice for Rudolph Diesel s internal combustion engine, introduced to the world at the Paris Exposition in 1900, was peanut oil. Coming full circle after over a century, so-called biodiesel fuels have become popular alternatives to the petroleum-derived hydrocarbon mixtures widely used in diesel engines. Rudolph Diesel eventually found that pure vegetable oil was too viscous to be practical... 

This chapter will however treat only biodiesel from vegetable oil (VO), the use of which in internal combustion engines is not a recent innovation. Indeed, in 1900, at the World Fair in Paris, the new diesel engine created by Rudolph Diesel (1858-1913) was tested for the first time with peanut oil. 

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