Diesel fuel is the common term for distillate fuel oil sold for motor vehicles that have a compression ignition engine. It is refined from crude oil and from biomass materials, and most of the diesel fuel produced and consumed in the United States is refined from crude oil at petroleum refineries, which produce an average of 11 to 12 gallons of diesel fuel from each 42-gallon barrel. Diesel engines burning it power freight and delivery trucks, trains, buses, boats, farm, construction and military vehicles, cars and light trucks, and generators for electricity production and backup power.
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in which ignition of diesel fuel is caused by the elevated temperature of the air in the cylinder due to mechanical compression
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In it, fuel is ignited by heat generated during the compression of air in the combustion chamber, into which fuel is then injected.
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