Мирон Павлович Зейлигер (1874–1952), (English transcription: Miron Pavlovich Zeyliger), birthname: ''Меер Пинхусович Зейлигер'' (English transcription: Meer Pinkhusovich Zeyliger), known as: Myron Seiliger, was a Russian physicist and university professor who developed the Seiliger cycle, a hypothetical model that describes how the

Diesel engine The diesel engine, named after Rudolf Diesel, is an internal combustion engine in which ignition of the fuel is caused by the elevated temperature of the air in the cylinder due to mechanical compression; thus, the diesel engine is a so-call ...

works.

Life and career

Seiliger, who was born in

Odessa Odesa (also spelled Odessa) is the third most populous city and municipality in Ukraine and a major seaport and transport hub located in the south-west of the country, on the northwestern shore of the Black Sea. The city is also the administrativ ...

, studied at the Institute of Technology in

Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

. Later, he became a professor there and lectured in

thermodynamics Thermodynamics is a branch of physics that deals with heat, work, and temperature, and their relation to energy, entropy, and the physical properties of matter and radiation. The behavior of these quantities is governed by the four laws of the ...

and

internal combustion engine An internal combustion engine (ICE or IC engine) is a heat engine in which the combustion of a fuel occurs with an oxidizer (usually air) in a combustion chamber that is an integral part of the working fluid flow circuit. In an internal combus ...

s. In 1910, Seiliger developed the

dual cycle The dual combustion cycle (also known as the mixed cycle, Trinkler cycle, Seiliger cycle or Sabathe cycle) is a thermal cycle that is a combination of the Otto cycle and the Diesel cycle, first introduced by Russian-German engineer Gustav Trinkler ...

, which was later named Seiliger cycle after him. After the

Russian Revolution The Russian Revolution was a period of Political revolution (Trotskyism), political and social revolution that took place in the former Russian Empire which began during the First World War. This period saw Russia abolish its monarchy and ad ...

, Seiliger left Russia; in October 1924, he moved to France, where he became a professor of the RWTI Paris and continued lecturing. Also, Seiliger was a member of the Society of Russian Engineers.James E. Hassell: ''Russian Refugees in France and the United States Between the World Wars'', American Philosophical Society, 1991, p. 74

Published works

*''Graphische Thermodynamik und Berechnen der Verbrennungs-Maschinen und Turbinen'', Springer, Berlin/Heidelberg, 1922, *''Die Hochleistungs-Dieselmotoren'', Springer, Berlin/Heidelberg, 1926, *''Kompressorlose Dieselmotoren und Semidieselmotoren'', Springer, Berlin/Heidelberg, 1929,

References

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