Green Car Congress

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.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2009

The first registrant in the Challenge is Libralato Engines, developer of a novel rotary engine (cutaway shown) promising a 5.5% gain in combustion efficiency and 50% reduction in NO x emissions. Rotor 1, Rotor 2 and the connecting cam form the total internal mechanism of the engine. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2019

An adaption of cylinder de-activation technique called ECONAMIQ over-expansion can be applied to engines to improve fuel efficiency. Using the pressure from the exhaust gas from the active cylinders, the ‘idle’ cylinders could be expanded to extract more work out of the engine during partial load operation.

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Fuel San Jose 2019 Engine 186

Green Car Congress

MAY 23, 2009

Schematic of downsized and supercharged four-stroke hybrid pneumatic spark injection engine. The HPE was long thought to be a system in which all engine valves had to be actuated in a fully variable manner to allow for two-stoke pneumatic modes and still enable the four-stroke combustion mode. Source: ETH Zürich. Click to enlarge.

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Downsizing Concept Engine Hybrid 170

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 31, 2009

The WDG also can reduce carbon dioxide emissions by as much as 95 percent in comparison to modern internal combustion vehicle engines. The Wave Disc Engine. The wave disc engine is a new implementation of wave rotor technology (also called Pressure Wave Machines or Pressure Exchangers). Norbert Müller.

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Michigan Engine Universal 2004 316

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2015

US Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz announced a new Vehicle Technologie program-wide funding opportunity ( DE-FOA-0001201 ) for $55.8 Increased efficiency may be achieved using one or more proposed enabling technologies on a baseline engine. This new funding opportunity announcement will be available in early February. turbomachinery.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2013

A new new forum for the advocacy and development of liquid air as an alternative technology to harness waste and surplus energy within power and transport—the Liquid Air Energy Network (LAEN)—has formed in the UK. Sources of low-grade waste heat include power stations to factories to vehicle engines.

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