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Why is diesel called diesel?

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For decades, diesel was an unwanted byproduct or distillate of this crude oil refining, but it was not considered important and called diesel fuel until 1894. Before it was coined as diesel fuel, it was referred to as “distillate.” In Australia, diesel fuel still goes by the term distillate. read more

CI is the abbreviation for Compression Ignition. In diesel engines, the mixture of air and fuel is ignited by the heat of compression, owing to the high compression ratio. read more

Diesel is named after Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel, a German inventor born in 1858, and most famous for his invention of the Diesel engine. He designed a single 3 m iron cylinder with a flywheel at its base which ran on its own power for the first time in Augsburg, Germany on 10 August 1893. read more

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