Porous burners for lean-burn applications

Applications of porous media combustion technology – A review

Combustion in porous media and its applications--a comprehensive survey.

Polysilsesquioxane derived ceramic foams with gradient porosity

Applications of porous materials in combustion systems: A comprehensive and state-of-the-art review

At present, the emissions of internal combustion engines can only be improved by catalytic treatments of the exhaust gases. Such treatments, however, result in high costs and relatively low conversion efficiency. This suggests that a new combustion technique should be developed to yield improved primary combustion processes inside the engine with drastically reduced exhaust gas emissions. In this paper, the authors report on such a technique that is applicable to direct injection, internal combustion engines, either diesel or gasoline fuelled. This technique is based on the porousmedium (PM) combustion technology previously developed in the authors’ laboratory for steady state household and industrial combustion processes.It is shown that the PM combustion technique can be applied to internal combustion engines, i.e. it is demonstrated that improvements obtained in steady state combustion are also realizable in unsteady combustion processes. Theoretical considerations are presented for internal co...

M. Weclas

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A new type of internal combustion engine based on the porous-medium combustion technique: