Diesel
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Technology
- Diesel fuel Diesel fuel in general is any liquid fuel used in diesel engines. The most common is a specific fractional distillate of petroleum fuel oil, but alternatives that are not derived from petroleum, such as biodiesel, biomass to liquid (BTL) or gas to liquid (GTL) diesel, are increasingly being developed and adopted. To distinguish these types,
- Diesel engine A diesel engine is an internal combustion engine that uses the heat of compression to initiate ignition to burn the fuel, which is injected into the combustion chamber during the final stage of compression. This is in contrast to spark ignition engines such as a petrol engine (known as a gasoline engine in North America) or gas engine (using a
- Diesel locomotive A Diesel locomotive is a type of railroad locomotive in which the prime mover is a Diesel engine. Several types have been developed, the principal distinction being in the means by which the prime mover's mechanical power is conveyed to the driving wheels
Other uses
- Diesel (game engine) The Diesel engine is a game engine developed and used by GRIN. The engine was originally developed for their game Ballistics and has been used, albeit with modifications, in a number of other games since then. The first installment of the engine was developed in close collaboration with NVIDIA, aimed to showcase the capabilities of their latest
- Diesel (brand) Diesel S.p.A. is an Italian design company. It is best known for clothing aimed at the young adult market, particularly jeans, but the brand can now be found on everything from underwear to fragrances. The company is owned by its founder Renzo Rosso, and is based in Molvena in northern Italy, an Italian clothing company
- Diesel (band) Diesel was a Dutch pop/rock group that became one of the few Dutch acts to chart in the U.S. when their song "Sausalito Summernight" entered the U.S. Top 40 in 1981, a Dutch band
- Diesel Energy Drink Diesel is an energy drink produced by Diesel Beverage Company in La Mesa, California. Diesel advertises that it provides high octane power with 6000 or 9000 horsepower and can be purchased in 16 cylinder or 24 cylinder sizes. The horsepower tagline refers to the amount of energy components found in each can. The cylinder aspect refers to the
- Udora (band) Udora is a rock band, originally from Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil . The band was formed in 1997 by singer/guitarist Gustavo Drummond, bassist Thiago Correa, guitarist Leonardo Marques and drummer Jean Dolabella under the name Diesel and was one of the biggest names in the Belo Horizonte underground music scene. In 2001, the band gained or Diesel, a Brazilian alternative rock band
- The Diesel (aka D261) This article lists the standard gauge Railway Engine characters of the Television Series Thomas and Friends . These are the characters that run on the Fat Controller's railway, a character in Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends
- Diesel, a character from The Railway Series Many characters have appeared in the books of The Railway Series by the Rev. Wilbert Awdry and Christopher Awdry, and in the spin-off television series, Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends
- Diesel, a variety of the beer cocktail Snakebite Snakebite is a cocktail essentially made from equal parts of lager and cider
- Diesel, a 1985 film by Robert Kramer Robert Kramer was an American film director, screenwriter and actor. He directed 19 films between 1965 and 1999
- Diesel Model Description Language A computer language for specifying non-linear dynamical systems.
Nicknames
- David S. LaForce David S. LaForce is an artist, noted for his artwork in fantasy role-playing games. Along with Jeff Dee, Erol Otus, Jim Roslof, David C. Sutherland III and David A. Trampier, LaForce is recognized as one of the first-generation artists for Dungeons & Dragons , the seminal role-playing game (RPG) or Diesel, cartographer and illustrator
- John Riggins Robert John Riggins, nicknamed "The Diesel", is a former American football running back in the National Football League for the New York Jets and Washington Redskins. Riggins was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1992 or The Diesel, NFL football player
- Greg Williams (Australian footballer) Greg "Diesel" Williams is a former champion Australian rules footballer with the Sydney Swans, Geelong Football Club and the Carlton Football Club in the Victorian/Australian football League or Diesel, Australian-rules football player
- Kevin Nash Kevin Scott Nash is an American professional wrestler and actor. Nash has wrestled under various ring names, but most notably by his own name for World Championship Wrestling (WCW), and by the ring name Diesel and his own name in World Wrestling Federation / Entertainment (WWF/E). He currently works for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), where or Diesel, professional wrestler
- Glenn Jacobs Glenn Thomas Jacobs is a Spanish-born American professional wrestler and actor better known by his ring name, Kane and is currently working for World Wrestling Entertainment on its SmackDown brand or Diesel, professional wrestler, also known as "Fake Diesel"
- Joe Riggs Joseph Jonathan Riggs is an American mixed martial arts fighter. He has competed at weights ranging from Heavyweight down to Welterweight. Currently, Riggs fights as a Welterweight or Diesel, mixed martial artist
- Shaquille O'Neal Shaquille Rashaun O'Neal , nicknamed "Shaq" (/ʃæk/), is an American professional basketball player, rapper, actor, reserve police officer and a U.S. Deputy Marshal. He is widely perceived as one of the most dominant players in the history of the NBA. Standing at 7 ft 1 in (2.16 m) and weighing 325 pounds (147 kg), he is one of the or The Diesel, basketball player
People with the surname
- Rudolf Diesel Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel was a German inventor and mechanical engineer, famous for the invention of the diesel engine, German engineer who invented the Diesel engine
- Vin Diesel Vin Diesel is an American actor, writer, director and producer. He became known in the early 2000s, appearing in several successful Hollywood films, including The Fast and the Furious and xXx. He founded the production companies One Race Films, Tigon Studios and Racetrack Records, American actor
- Johnny Diesel Johnny Diesel is an Australian musician, who has released material as leader of Johnny Diesel & the Injectors, under his birth name, or by the epithet Diesel. Two of his albums reached #1 on the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) Albums Charts, Hepfidelity in 1992 and The Lobbyist in 1993, Australian rock singer
See also
- Diesel cycle The Diesel cycle is the thermodynamic cycle which approximates the pressure and volume of the combustion chamber of the Diesel engine, invented by Rudolph Diesel in 1897. It is assumed to have constant pressure during the first part of the "combustion" phase , v2 to v3 in the diagram. This is mostly a mathematical model: real physical
- Diesel multiple unit A diesel multiple unit or DMU is a multiple unit train consisting of multiple carriages powered by one or more on-board diesel engines. They may also be referred to as a railcar or railmotor, depending on country
- Diesel exhaust Exhaust gas or flue gas is emitted as a result of the combustion of fuels such as natural gas, gasoline/petrol, diesel fuel, fuel oil or coal. It is discharged into the atmosphere through an exhaust pipe, flue gas stack or propelling nozzle
- Diesel generator A diesel generator is the combination of a diesel engine with an electrical generator to generate electric energy. Diesel generating sets are used in places without connection to the power grid or as emergency power-supply if the grid fails. Small portable diesel generators range from about 1 kVA to 10 kVA may be used as power supplies on
- Red diesel Red diesel is a rebated fuel used for heating, electrical generators, and some categories of vehicles including agricultural machinery and winter service vehicles which rarely use public highways
- Turbodiesel Turbodiesel refers to any diesel engine with a turbocharger. Turbocharging is the norm rather than the exception in modern car and truck diesel engines. As with any turbocharged engine, turbodiesels can offer higher specific power outputs, lower emissions levels, improved efficiency and higher refinement levels than their naturally aspirated
- Biodiesel Biodiesel refers to a vegetable oil- or animal fat-based diesel fuel consisting of long-chain alkyl esters. Biodiesel is typically made by chemically reacting lipids (e.g., vegetable oil, animal fat (tallow)) with an alcohol, a fuel for diesel engines, made from vegetable oil
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