Airline efforts to reduce emissions date back to the 1960s, with the earliest efforts focused on reducing the highly visible smoke emitted from jet engines. By the late 1960s, engine manufacturers developed cleaner-burning combustion chambers, ...
Primer: A device for spraying fuel into the induction system or combustion chambers of an aero-engine to facilitate starting.
Getting the mist circulated in the cylinder so that it is evenly distributed is also a problem, so some diesel engines employ special induction valves, pre-combustion chambers or other devices to swirl the air in the combustion chamber or otherwise ...
 
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