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common rail direct injection (CDI)

Automotive; Vehicle equipment

A fuel-injection system that uses a single "rail" (fuel line) that maintains constant fuel pressure regardless of injection sequence (also called common rail injection). The engine's electronic ...

Material brought about by combining materials differing in composition or form on a macroscale to obtain specific characteristics and properties. The constituents retain their identity; they can be ...

compression ignition

Automotive; Vehicle equipment

The type of ignition that typically initiates combustion in a diesel engine. Rapidly compressing the air within the cylinders generates enough heat to ignite the fuel as it is injected. This is why ...

compression-ignition direct-injection (CIDI) engine

Automotive; Vehicle equipment

Commonly called the diesel engine, has the highest thermal efficiency of any internal combustion engine. Challenges to improvements include a lower specific power than the gasoline engine; ...

diesel fuel

Automotive; Vehicle equipment

Petroleum products normally used as fuel for diesel engines are components of crude oil having heavy hydrocarbons containing at least 12 to 16 carbon atoms per molecule. These heavier fractions are ...

dimethyl ether (DME)

Automotive; Vehicle equipment

A synthetic diesel fuel derived from natural gas, an excellent candidate for direct-injection engines. DME contains no sulfur and burns more cleanly than conventional diesel fuel, so it produces ...

direct injection (DI)

Automotive; Vehicle equipment

In DI, fuel is injected directly into the cylinder, as is typical in a diesel engine (also called direct fuel injection). Most other internal combustion engines use either carburetion (in which the ...