The internal combustion engine; a text-book for the use of students and engineers (1915)
Wimperis, Harry Egerton, 1876- · New York, D. Van Nostrand company · leaf 259
e) without thecharge pre-igniting. The compression space in the Dieselengine has to be exceedingly small; and to facilitate this thearrangement at the head of the cylinder is as shown in Fig. 67.In the Diesel and semi-Diesel engines pre-ignitions of theordinary kind are equally impossible, as there… … 250- <• Fig. 68.—Indicator Diagram from Diesel Engine. during the compression stroke and that the engine be damagedunless massively built. This danger is eliminated in thesemi-Diesel engines, which have the oil supply forced into thecylinder by the action of a force pump which comes into…
Internal combustion engines
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