History of the Diesel Generator

Released on = November 6, 2006, 2:34 pm

Press Release Author = John Stafford

Industry = Automotive

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Press Release Body = The diesel generator owes its roots to mainly two inventors.
One of these is the creator of the first generator Michael Faraday and the other is
the creator of the diesel engine Rudolph Diesel. The first of these two has
contributed greatly to life as we know it today with all his discoveries in
electricity.

Michael Faraday was of humble beginning but always had a curious nature. He was at
an early age an errand boy for a bookbinding shop and here he vastly increased his
knowledge as he read anything he could put his hands on. He was very interested in
the concept of energy and force and this interest is one that continued throughout
his life and eventually he developed into a famed chemist and physicist.

It was his discovery of electromagnetic induction in the year 1831 that led to the
development of the modern generator. He used what he termed his induction ring to
discover the electromagnetic induction. This was the generation or induction of
electricity in a wire by the use of the electromagnetic effect of the current in
another wire. This was the first transformer and followed closely with the discovery
of the magneto-electric induction process which is the production of a steady
electric current.

He attached two pieces of wire by the use of a sliding contact to a copper disc. He
rotated the disc through the poles of a magnet and was able to generate continuous
direct current. This was the first generator of time. This group of experiments led
to the revolutionized generator that we know today.

The diesel generator however owes its development to the inventor Rudolph Diesel. He
started off as a refrigerator engineer and eventually found himself working on many
heat engine designs. He in 1892 put out a patent that dealt with the method and
design of a engine where combustion would take place in the cylinder. He continued
to work to this goal and was successful in the production of a diesel engine that
produced an efficiency of 75%.

It is the coupling of his diesel engine with the generator that led to the diesel
generator that we known today. His design was rather large and very heavy and found
more use in industrial applications as a generator. They were used to power
pipelines and for electric plants and water plants. Later on they found applications
in the mines and in oil fields. The diesel generator is simply the coupling of the
diesel engine with an electrical generator and has been use throughout history since
its invention for many applications.

The diesel generator has been seen to be the choice of many of the larger companies
as it is well suited for industrial use. A major discouraging factor for its use in
terms of the retail market has been the fact that it can be rather noisy but this
has been reduced greatly from the first diesel generators and is now almost
comparable to the gasoline generators. These generators also offer other perks such
as increase fuel economy and reduced maintenance costs which can explain their
popularity in industrial applications.

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