Older, naturally aspirated diesel engines can use only about 70-80 percent of the fuel employed by a gasoline engine with the same swept volume and still avoid black smoke
In diesel engines, the utilization factor (the ability to have smoke-free combustion) varies with the combustion system. For example, the diesel engine featuring a precombusiton chamber system, or indirect injection (IDI), has a utilization value of about 80 percent. The earlier naturally aspirated direct-injection system has a value of about 70-80 percent. The turbocharged direct-injection (DI) system has values of approximately 50-70 percent
The utilization percentage of light-duty diesel engines with direct injection has been improved upon greatly with recent designs. This is the result of advanced combustion chamber technology and electronic controls along with the need to limit tailpipe emissions.
An IDI system sprays the fuel into a small precombustion chamber where the ignition occurs and then spreads out into the main combustion chamber. In contrast, a DI engine has no prechamber. Due to the differences in pressure rise, combustion chamber shape, and burn speed with an IDI versus a DI design, the combustion sound becomes unique. To a trained diesel enthusiast, each combustion chamber will produce a unique noise
Interestingly, the latest version of the GM Duramax has a slightly lower compression ratio to limit the noise generation of this already extremely quiet engine
The compression ratio of a diesel engine is usually indicative of the combustion chamber design. Due to an increased surface-to-volume ratio and its inherent negative impact on thermal efficiency, an IDI design will employ a higher static compression ratio of usually 20:1 or more. In contrast, a DI diesel has less combustion chamber surface volume, so a compression ratio of approximately 15:1 to 17:1 is sufficient. In addition, an IDI application would depend more on forced induction to clean up the exhaust over a DI engine.
Since any Otto cycle engine's output is dependent on the amount of air the pistons can pump, high rpm are required to produce horsepower. The higher the rpm, the greater the potential for horsepower. This is due, in part, to the definition of horsepower being work over time
The quicker the engine can do the work, the more horsepower it has. A naturally aspirated diesel is limited in power per cubic inch simply because the burn rate of diesel fuel is very slow when compared to gasoline. Thus, by nature of the chemical composition of the fuel, the diesel engine is slow to rev and has limited maximum rpm. For this reason, the diesel engine responds favorably to forced induction through turbocharging or supercharging
(and an extremely rich ratio is very inefficient. The mixture is supplied to the gasoline engine by a carburetor or fuel injectors in the manifold and is well mixed and nearly homogeneous.)
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