The key ingredient to maximizing the peak performance of a diesel engine is increasing the amount of diesel being burned. On old mechanical-injection engines, the only way to do this was to modify the ...

Diesel engines use compression to ignite the fuel, which needs to have an even burn, and cetane boosters have an important ...

Sandia National Laboratories researchers (left to right: Nathan Harry, Christopher Nilsen, Drummond Biles, and Charles Mueller) show off their prototype of ducted fuel injection module for diesel ...

High-pressure common rail fuel (HPCR) systems are standard on nearly every diesel engine today, from heavy equipment to over-the-road trucks, light-duty trucks, large generators and more. HPCR fuel ...

Diesel engines are notoriously robust, but if the fuel they run on gets contaminated, the engine can suddenly become much ...

Air flowing into a four-stroke diesel engine gets cleaned as it passes through the air filter. It then flows through tubing until it is compressed in the spinning blades of the turbo. As a result, the ...

We are all aware that propane is a safe and convenient fuel for heating homes, drying clothes, and cooking steaks on the grill, but did you know that propane can also be used to safely add power, ...

Diesel engines are more durable by their very nature, and these ones are practically unkillable.

We are all aware that propane is a safe and convenient fuel for heating homes, drying clothes, and cooking steaks on the grill, but did you know that propane can also be used to safely add power, ...