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Internal combustion engines have been significantly improving in the past decade, after the adoption of technologies such as Gasoline Direct Injection, mild electrification, downsizing and turbocharging. The OSU EcoCAR prototype vehicle features an extended-range electric architecture with a downsized 1.8L —Skarke et al.
A team at Monsanto and colleagues at AVL Powertrain have successfully designed and demonstrated an onboard low-temperature ethanol reformer that can be driven by exhaust heat. Many papers have described high-temperature steam reforming of ethanol at around 600 °C but.this temperature is too high to be driven by engine exhaust.
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Researchers at Tianjin University in China report that combing split injection to the Miller cycle with boost pressure can effectively decrease the knock tendency and increase the engine torque in a downsized spark-ignition engine. The researchers used a Ricardo E6 4-stroke SI engine in the study, with a swept volume of 0.5
The Delphi study assessed the technology of downsizing and turbocharging; GDI fueling and its synergies with turbocharging; and an analysis of downsized 3-cylinder versus 4-cylinder engines. Downsizing can be accomplished via reduction in the number of cylinders, and/or a reduction in the displaced volume of each cylinder.
A team from Brunel University, MAHLE Powertrain and University College London studied the combined effects of different inlet valve operating strategies on combustion, performance and emissions with different ethanol and 1-butanol blends with gasoline in a single-cylinder spark-ignition research engine equipped with a fully variable valvetrain.
Their study is publishedin the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology. Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and nitrated PAHs were quantified in both the vapor and particle phases of the PM, with the GPF-equipped vehicles practically eliminating most of these species in the exhaust. —Yang et al.
A study by a team from Ford Motor Company and AVL has concluded that a mid-level ethanol blend—greater than E20 but less than E40—appears to be attractive as a long-term future fuel for the US for use in engines optimized for the higher octane blend. Downsizing/downspeeding. Earlier post.) Earlier post.).
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liter ELC-Hybrid to downsized 1.4L VTES + SpeedStart. CPT and AVL’s most recent work assesses the potential of a VTES equipped downsized ELC-Hybrid vehicle in combination with the CPT SpeedStart Integrated Starter Generator ( earlier post ) and the UltraBattery. Click to enlarge.
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The primary purpose of the Study was to answer the fundamental question about fuel consumption. Scuderi Group commissioned SwRI to design and implement the computer Study, which could simulate an SSC engine in any vehicle of choice, driven through any drive cycle of choice. Click to enlarge.
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A downsized gasoline engine is one of the proven technologies that improves engine thermal efficiency and thus reduces automotive fleet CO 2 emissions, by as much as 25%. A downsized gasoline engine is one of the proven technologies that improves engine thermal efficiency and thus reduces automotive fleet CO 2 emissions, by as much as 25%.
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Due to the lower exhaust enthalpy of lower temperature engines using PPCI, it is difficult to produce intake boost with acceptable boost system parasitis. A practical powertrain system with robust PPCI combustion is needed, including injection, valvetrain, boost, and exhaust subsystems. Current study. —Sellnau et al.
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Knock and fuel octane rating are becoming increasingly important due to many powertrain design trends including downsizing, downspeeding, cylinder deactivation, and hybridization. … In their study, Leone et al. In their study, Leone et al. Leone et al.
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This combined combined aggressive 50% downsizing of the engine with an electric supercharger for transient low-speed performance and a 12+X volt micro-hybrid stop-start and energy recuperation systems. It is capable of operating in exhaust temperatures up to 850 °C, at speeds up to 60,000 rpm and delivering a peak power of 2 kW (@12V).
In a recent study, published in the journal Combustion and Flame , they report that their predictions implicate the composition and temperature of the initial mix of fuel and air. Advanced low-temperature-combustion (LTC) strategies of downsized and boosted engines are capable of offering ultra-low emissions and higher efficiencies.
Many approaches have been attempted to achieve CAI operation on the four-stroke spark ignition engines, such as intake air heating, high compression ratio, dual fuel, recycling the exhaust gas, and so on. To minimize the air short-circuiting rate, the intake and exhaust valve timings were adjusted. Earlier post , earlier post.).
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Ricardo has previously reported on a simulation environment set up to enable the study of engine and after-treatment technology over RDE cycles, incorporating post-processing with the EMROAD and CLEAR tools. liter diesel engine. Attribute analysis presented in SIA paper. The cost comparison is with respect to a Euro 5 baseline.
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. ECONAMIQ provides greater savings potential than the popular downsizing of internal combustion engines, while the benefits of a larger displacement is preserved.
To determine the vehicle efficiency effect of ethanol, they compiled paired energy efficiency data from all known studies of existing spark injection (SI)-engine vehicles operating on ethanol/gasoline blends and pure gasoline. Most of the studies expressed vehicle efficiency in various volume-based units. Credit: ACS, Yan et al.
Researchers in an unrelated study of direct injection natural gasoline engines (dual-fuel combustion in CI-engines using RCCI as well as conventional duel-fuel combustion) at Chalmers University (Sweden) noted that methane’s very high octane number allows the use of high compression ratios in spark ignition engines.
Engine downsizing and down-speeding are well suited to take advantage of higher-octane fuels because these engines encounter the knock limit more frequently. Operation under boosted conditions is essential to Co-Optima’s Thrust I effort to maintain acceptable power density for downsized and downsped SI engines.
Conduct fundamental studies of an alkali halide based solid‐electrolyte to demonstrate self‐ healing properties to overcome low cycle life and safety concerns associated with dendrite formation for lithium metal batteries. valve faces, piston crowns, and exhaust ports) to improve fuel economy. Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
High-research octane number (RON) fuels are known to enable more efficient, higher-performance SI operation via engine downsizing and boosting. Previous studies have investigated the sooting potential of various fuel components by adding them individually to a blendstock and measuring the impact on particulate emissions.
Engineers in the US and Europe have already demonstrated successful LI in gas turbines and rockets, but automotive engines were a very different proposition and previous research in this area was limited to preliminary studies on basic combustion processes.
Simulation study finds Miller version of Scuderi engine can deliver twice the BMEP as naturally aspirated version, theoretically enabling 50% downsizing while maintaining performance. Applying the Miller cycle to the Scuderi engine (right) entails downsizing of the compression cylinder. Source: Scuderi. Click to enlarge.
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