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Rudolf Diesel was a German inventor born in Paris, famous for the invention of the Diesel engine. Rudolf Diesel developed the idea of the compression ignition engine during the latter part of the 19th century, receiving a patent for the device on February 23, 1892 after building a functional prototype while working at the Maschinenfabrik Augsburg plant in Augsburg Germany. This 'Diesel engine' was named after him. Originally it was known as the "oil engine", and had many similarities with Akroyd-Stuart's engine, invented earlier.
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Rudolf Diesel (March 18, 1858 - September 30, 1913) is the inventor of the Diesel engine and is of German nationality. He was born in Paris and died on the English Channel.
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Rudolf Diesel had the right idea. Actually, the rather prolific inventor had a number of them, but only one made his name part of common worldwide vernacular. In the 1890s Diesel invented the motor designed to run not on petroleum, but on vegetable oil. The notion of biodiesel, it seems, is not as new-fangled as people thought. Soybean growers have been scrambling to prove that soybean oil is a viable fuel to power Mr. Diesel's brainchild, but they're not the first. Visitors to the World's Fair saw first-hand diesel engines humming away on peanut oil, and that was in 1900.
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Back in 1897, the German engineer Rudolf Diesel had a brilliant idea – he developed the first compression ignition diesel engine. More than 100 years on, the efficiency and robustness of this engine still make it the ideal method of propulsion for commercial vehicles.
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One of the fuels that Rudolf Diesel originally considered for his engine was vegetable seed oil, an idea that is now coming back as so-called “biodiesel.” Biodiesel can be manufactured from vegetable oils, animal fats, or recycled restaurant grease. It is biodegradable and can reduce vehicle emissions of particulates, carbon monoxide, and hydrocarbons. Blends of 20% biodiesel with 80% petroleum diesel (B20) can generally be used in unmodified diesel engines. Biodiesel may be one of the “additives” used to improve lubricity of ULSD fuel, which will be negatively affected by the removal of sulfur to meet the ULSD standards. Biodiesel production increased from very little ten years ago to about 75 million gallons in 2005 and tripling to about 225 million gallons in 2006. Most biodiesel is produced from soybean oil at about 105 facilities and is available in every state.
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In 1892 German engineer Rudolf Diesel patented the engine that bears his name, an internal combustion engine that doesn't require a spark to ignite the fuel-air mixture. Diesel was born in Paris to German parents and grew up in London, Paris and Munich. In the 1880s he worked as a refrigerator engineer in Munich, but returned to Paris to experiment with engines. In 1892 he won a patent for the diesel engine, but he continued to work on its development for years. The diesel engine allowed trains and ships to operate more efficiently with oil instead of coal, and Diesel quickly became a rich man. In 1913 he vanished overboard from a steamer bound for London; his body washed up ten days later. Some believe he committed suicide and cite his neurotic personality and numerous "breakdowns," and some believe he was murdered by either Germans (who resented his lack of nationalism) or by coal industrialists (who resented his engine).
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