The internal combustion engine; being a text book on gas, oil and petrol engines, for the use of students and engineers (1909)
Wimperis, Harry Egerton, 1876- · New York, Van Nostrand · leaf 260
on employed, viz. 35 or 40 as against 5 or 6 as commonly used on other engines. The Diesel engine cycle aims at compliance with the principle of taking in all its heat at constant pressure and the possible / 1 \y~1efficiency given by the formula >y = l—f—J would when r==40 be no less than 0*78… … Fig. 71.—Side view of Engine shown in Fig. 70. be expected to lead to a high thermal efficiency, and enginetests have confirmed this. 111. The Thornycroft marine engine can be operatedwith either petrol or paraffin. It is, of course, easier towork a marine engine on paraffin than a land one, as in…
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