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Understanding Diesel Engines: A Comprehensive Quiz

This quiz tests your knowledge of diesel engines, their history, applications, and related technologies. Challenge yourself and learn more about this essential power source.

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1 The common rail is a tube that supplies each computer-controlled injector containing a precision-machined nozzle and a plunger driven by a solenoid or ________ actuator.

2 In the 1930s, they slowly began to be used in a few ________.

3 The four-stroke type is the "classic" version, tracing its lineage back to Rudolf Diesel's ________.

4 ________ is a pure diesel-like fuel refined from vegetable oil and can be used in nearly all diesel engines.

5 Before this, a few civilian ________ had been built using adapted stationary diesel engines, but the weight and cost disadvantages generally outweighed the efficiency gains.

6 Also known as slow-speed, or traditionally oil engines, the largest diesel engines are primarily used to power ________, although there are a few land-based power generation units as well.

7 Before 1950, Sulzer started experimenting with two-stroke engines with boost pressures as high as 6 atmospheres, in which all the output power was taken from an exhaust ________.

8 ________ has a single vehicle fuel policy and has selected diesel for this purpose.

9 The first ________ appeared in the early 20th century, and diesel multiple units soon after.

10 1937: ________ chooses diesel engine for its T-34 tank, widely regarded as the best tank of the war.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the MV Domala was the first ship of the British-India Steam Navigation Company that was powered by diesel engines.
  • the Still engine was a combined steam and diesel engine designed to save fuel by using the exhaust gases to heat the boiler.
  • the Swedish American Line was the first transatlantic shipping company to operate a diesel-engined ocean liner.
  • the Russian tanker Vandal was one of the first two diesel-powered ships in the world.
  • the Charomskiy ACh-30B aircraft diesel engine was tested as a motorjet where the jet engine's compressor was driven by the piston engine's turbochargers.
  • the Imperial Japanese Army's Type 89 I-Go medium tank (Otsu version) was the first diesel-powered tank to be mass-produced.
  • on 28 May 1931, a Bellanca CH-300, fitted with a Packard DR-980 diesel engine, set a 55-year record for staying aloft for 84 hours and 32 minutes without being refueled.
  • one of Germany's Kaiser-class battleships, SMS Prinzregent Luitpold, never received a planned diesel engine to supplement her turbines, so her range was much less than her sister ships.
  • the Archimedes screw in De Groene Molen, Joure, is now driven by a 6 horsepower (4.5 kW) Lister diesel engine.
  • the coastal tanker Empire Boy was lengthened in 1954 and that her triple expansion steam engine was replaced by a diesel engine in 1965.
  • American cargo ship MS West Honaker was the first diesel-powered ship to circumnavigate the globe.
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