Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 25, 2010

A team from Universita degli Studi di Pisa (Italy) and Rolf Reitz at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are proposing a novel combustion concept—Homogenous Charge Progressive Combustion (HCPC)—based on a split-cycle principle to control HCCI combustion in diesel-fueled engines. SAE 2010-01-2107. Tamagna, D.,

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Concept Diesel San Diego 2010 318

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

HCCI is a combustion regime in which well-mixed fuel, exhaust gas and air are compressed to the point of auto-ignition. Unlike a spark ignition gas engine or diesel engine, HCCI produces a low-temperature, flameless release of energy throughout the entire combustion chamber. Elements of the Grail Engine.

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Engine Plug-in Concept Plug 186

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MAY 8, 2014

Motiv Engines, LLC introduced the second-generation of its engine concept dubbed the MkII Clarke-Brayton Engine, which it intends to develop into a heavy-duty on-highway engine fueled by liquid natural gas (LNG). It expands all the way to ambient pressure before the exhaust stroke.

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Engine Concept Design Exhaust 345

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FEBRUARY 5, 2010

When reforming is not used, the fuel and exhaust pass through CV2 unchanged. A paper on their work was published online 5 February in the ACS journal Energy & Fuels. The basic concept of TCR involves using exhaust heat to promote on-board reforming of hydrocarbon fuels into syngas (a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen).

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Exhaust International Engine Concept 249

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APRIL 20, 2009

The prototype is of the naturally-aspirated Split Cycle gasoline engine, and is intended to be a proof of the basic technology of the split cycle with firing after Top Dead Center (one of the key attributes of the engine and cycle). As a result, Scuderi said, combustion is four times faster than in a conventional engine.

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Engine San Antonio Production Concept Engine 170