Marine Diesel Engines & Their Use on Board Ships
Marine Diesel Engines & Their Use on Board Ships Rudolf Diesel invented the diesel engine but the marine engineers slog hard to keep it running on board ships. The Link Ship Chandlers team found this article to extend some information about the basics of diesel marine engines and marine engine parts . Introduction We are all familiar with the term diesel and diesel engines but not many of us remember Rudolf Diesel, the brain behind the invention of the diesel engine. Of course I will not go into much detail as this article is not meant as a biography but he was a German engineer (where else in the world is engineering such a passion?) who undertook years of experimentation and nearly lost his life when his first engine exploded upon ignition of fuel. The rest as they say is history and diesel engines are being successfully used in a variety of applications including diesel marine engines used on different types of ships . The Diesel Engine One of the places where d