PRIMARILY intended as a discussion and amplification of the paper of Messrs. Boerlage and Broeze presented at the April, 1936, meeting of the American Chemical Society1, this paper reviews fuel research conducted at the San Leandro laboratory of the Caterpillar Tractor Co. and, therefore, is limited to the precombustion-chamber type of Diesel engine burning California-base fuels.The paper describes investigations of ignition quality, fuel-spray characteristics, and injection phenomena by means of a single-cylinder test unit fitted with a quartz observation window, stroboscope, timing disc and phase-changing device.A discussion of the products of incomplete combustion as influenced by compounded lubricants and ring-belt temperatures concludes the paper.


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    Title :

    The American Picture - Diesel Fuel Research


    Additional title:

    Sae Technical Papers


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    Pre-1964 SAE Technical Papers ; 1906



    Publication date :

    1937-01-01




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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