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Car, trucks, bus and other automobiles run on engines based on fossil fuels.
The two most common types of engine are petrol engine and diesel engine.
Most of the vehicles run either on petrol engine or diesel engine. The main
difference between the petrol engine and diesel engine is that in a petrol
engine, fuel and air both are compressed with a spark, while in a diesel
engine, only air is compressed, and fuel is injected in compressed air. Petrol
engines and diesel engines work on the otto cycle and diesel cycle,
respectively.
Step 3. Now spark is used in the mixture and the mixture forces the piston
down.
Diesel Engine
Generally, trucks and other heavy vehicles run on diesel engines. It is also
an internal combustion engine that works on diesel. In these engines, the
air is compressed, so it becomes very hot and then fuel (diesel) is injected
into it. Thus, diesel reaches its ignition temperature by the heat of
compressed air. It is also known as a compression-ignition engine. It was
1st developed by Rudolf Diesel in 1893 in Germany. Diesel engines were
mainly used in trains at that time.
How Does a Diesel Engine Work?
A diesel engine works on a diesel cycle. It can be explained by the following
steps shown in the figures below:
Step 1. Induction Stroke – Piston of the engine goes down and air comes
into the cylinder.
Step 2. Compression Stroke – Piston goes up and compresses the air. Now
the air is getting hot.
These engines work with highly These engines work with low volatile
volatile fuels. fuels.
This engine has low compression This engine has high compression
ratios (7-10). ratios (11-20).
This engine has lower efficiency This engine has higher efficiency than a
than a diesel engine. petrol engine.
While working this engine makes While working this engine makes more
less noise. noise.
In this type of engine, fuel and air In this type of engine, first air is injected
are injected together. and compressed, then fuel is added.
Even with the vast usage of the two most drivers confuse the difference
and similarities between petrol and diesel engine. well, the primary
difference between the two is that a petrol engine works on the otto
cycle whereas diesel works on the diesel cycl
Differ
ence between petrol and diesel engine
Petrol (gasoline)
engine
Diesel engine
Disadvantages:
1. The disadvantage of the petrol engine is that, generally, its lifespan
is almost always shorter than that of the diesel.
2. This practically relates to the fact that diesel engines will usually
have a higher residual (resale) value.
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Diesel Engine
• The Diesel engine is also an internal combustion engine which is also known as the
compression-ignition engine. It is named after Rudolf Diesel.
• In these engines, the fuel is injected into a combustion chamber and is then ignited by the
high temperature of the air in the chamber.
• The high temperature of the air in the cylinder is due to the adiabatic compression. These
engines only compress the air and not the fuel.
• When injected into the combustion chamber, the Diesel fuel undergoes spontaneous
ignition.
• These engines work on the Diesel cycle, which consists of a constant pressure process, a
constant volume process, and two isentropic
processes.
Thus, the important differences between Petrol and Diesel engines are discussed
briefly in this article. To learn more about these engines, and how they can be
replaced with fuel cells, register with BYJU’S and download the mobile application on
your smartphone.
Different hydrocarbon chain lengths all have progressively higher boiling points the
longer the chain, so they can all be separated by a process known as fractional
distillation. During the process, crude oil is heated in a distillation column, and the
different hydrocarbon chains are extracted as a vapour according to their
vaporisation temperatures and then recondensed.
After distillation, there are various techniques that are used to convert some
fractions to others:
For example, this allows a refinery to turn diesel fuel into petrol fuel, depending on
the demand for petrol. Refineries will also combine various fractions (processed,
unprocessed) into mixtures to make desired products. For example, different
mixtures of hydrocarbon chains can create petrols with different octane ratings.
Distillated and chemically processed fractions are treated to remove impurities, such
as organic compounds containing sulphur, nitrogen, oxygen, water, dissolved metals
and inorganic salts.
Market Share
Information on the market share of diesel and petrol can be found in the ACEA
Pocket Guide and in this interactive infographic.
Important Difference between Petrol and Diesel Engine
Petrol engines
have a These have a high
Compression ratio
moderately low compression ratio
compression ratio
Diesel engines do not
They consume a
Consumption of Fuel consume that much
lot of fuel
fuel
These require a
They have a high
Maintenance cost low maintenance
maintenance cost
cost
Most of them pre-mix fuel and air before compression. However, some modern petrol engines
now make use of cylinder-direct petrol injection. An electronically controlled fuel injection does
this pre-mixing.
Petrol engines have a higher rpm which provides great pick up speed to the
vehicles, hence mostly used in lighter vehicles. Petrol engines consume more fuel,
hence quite expensive running costs. But the manufacturing and maintenance cost is
comparatively lower than diesel engines. Moreover, such engines have a greater
rate of CO2 emissions but do not emit soot-like particles.