ABSTRACT Non-conventional operating conditions and fuels in diesel engines can produce longer ignition delays compared to conventional diesel combustion. If those extended delays are longer than the ...

Terry Howard was motivated to adapt idling-reduction technology, becoming more common in trucks, to ASRC's off-road equipment because the best way to get machines rolling after 14 hours off shift in ...

Temp-A-Start automatically starts and stops an engine to keep it warmed up and batteries charged. The patented system's sensors measure block temperature, battery charge and ambient temperature (cab ...

H. B. DIXON has observed that the ignition temperature of hydrogen-oxygen mixtures may be lowered so much as 200° C. by small quantities of nitrogen dioxide. Hinshelwood 1,2 and his co-workers, who ...

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