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Mazda introduces HAZUMI concept along with new 1.5-liter SKYACTIV-D diesel

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The system is referred to as MZD Connect in other markets.) When fuel is injected under these conditions, ignition takes places before an adequate air-fuel mixture forms, causing localized heterogeneous combustion, resulting in the formation of NO x and soot, Mazda says. Local hot spots cause NO x and over-rich spots cause soot.

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Hyperion Unveils Design of its Small Modular Nuclear Reactor, the Hyperion Power Module

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tall), sealed and self-contained, simple-to-operate nuclear power reactor, euphemistically referred to by the company as a “fission battery”. The first version of the HPM is a uranium nitride (U 2 N 3 )-fueled, lead-bismuth (Pb-Bi)-cooled, fast reactor. The U 2 N 3 fuel is 20% enriched and set in HT-9 cladding tubes.

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U. Mich, Ford team studies effect of ethanol in reducing PM from DISI engines; insights into fueling strategies to reduce soot

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A team from the University of Michigan and Ford’s Research and Advanced Engineering group in Dearborn has studied the effects of ethanol on reducing particulate emissions from a direct injection spark ignition (DISI) engine by comparing neat anhydrous ethanol with a baseline fuel of reference grade gasoline (indolene).

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