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In 1872, George Bailey Brayton obtained a patent on an internal combustion engine that used a pneumatic fuel injection system, also invented by Brayton: air-blast injection. [21]: 413 In 1894, Rudolf Diesel copied Brayton's air-blast injection system for the diesel engine, but also improved it.
Gasoline direct injection (GDI), also known as petrol direct injection (PDI), [ 1 ] is a mixture formation system for internal combustion engines that run on gasoline (petrol), where fuel is injected into the combustion chamber. This is distinct from manifold injection systems, which inject fuel into the intake manifold (inlet manifold).
[17]: p31 Fuel consumption of this engine was less than half that of the Lenoir and Hugon engines. [17]: p34-35 1865: The Hugon engine – an improved version of the Lenoir engine with flame ignition, better fuel economy [22] and water injection into the cylinders for cooling – is introduced by French engineer Pierre Hugon. This engine was ...
Common rail fuel system on a Volvo truck engine. In 1916 Vickers pioneered the use of mechanical common rail systems in G-class submarine engines. For every 90° of rotation, four plunger pumps allowed a constant injection pressure of 3,000 pounds per square inch (210 bar; 21 MPa), with fuel delivery to individual cylinders being shut off by valves in the injector lines. [1]
An internal combustion engine (ICE or IC engine) is a heat engine in which the combustion of a fuel occurs with an oxidizer (usually air) in a combustion chamber that is an integral part of the working fluid flow circuit. In an internal combustion engine, the expansion of the high- temperature and high- pressure gases produced by combustion ...
1893 Hornsby-Akroyd oil engine at the museum of Lincolnshire life, Lincoln, England 14 hp Hornsby-Akroyd oil engine at the Great Dorset Steam Fair in 2008. The Hornsby-Akroyd oil engine, named after its inventor Herbert Akroyd Stuart and the manufacturer Richard Hornsby & Sons, was the first successful design of an internal combustion engine using heavy oil as a fuel.
In this manner, the engine fired on every power stroke and speed and output were controlled solely by the quantity of fuel injected. Bosch later further developed this type of metered injection system. In 1890 Brayton filed a patent (granted in 1892) for another 4 stroke engine with an air blast fuel injection system ( U.S. patent# 432,260) .
1980s – electronic fuel injection appears on gasoline automobile engines. 1989 – The Bajulaz Six-Stroke Engine was invented by the Bajulaz S A company, based in Geneva, Switzerland; it has U.S. patent 4,809,511 and U.S. patent 4,513,568.